TechnoBabble

Sounds like a town so devoid of life that it would be more productive to just let it collapse.

There's a bunch of tiny rural towns that have basically no jobs and no real reason to exist anymore.

Globalization was not kind to rural America. And people listen to snake oil salesmen like Trump because he's the only one talking at them with a distorted compassion.

I buy steam games, even ones I've already pirated, for a few reasons.

• Quick and easy downloads

• Seamless updates

• Almost all my other purchased games in one place.

• Cloud saves

• Durability, just knowing my games will be available to download on my next PC for the foreseeable future.

And I pirate just about everything I watch mainly because I'm not willing to play musical subscriptions to watch the shows I want to see at the end of a long day.

If the film industry had a service that offered a similar experience to a Plex share, I'd pay quite a bit for it. But instead they have this system designed to extract maximum value from every viewer, and I'm tired of it.

Gabe Newell was right on the money when he said piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.

I thought it was insane that they take apart a fully built laptop to sell the diy version.

It's way more work for Framework, but they charge less for the diy model.

I wonder if user comfort with modifying internals on the diy model creates more sales in the long run, because customers can visualize what they'd be doing when installing an upgrade.

And if the state is going to legislate that way, there's even more reason to pull coverage.

It's half climate change related, and half their own doing.

I can't fathom why these media companies still love to do exclusivity agreements. There's no way it's more profitable than just allowing everyone to watch your show from any service, with commissions for the number of views.

I'd probably start paying for a streaming service again if I could watch every show in one place. But I'm not interested in playing musical subscriptions.

A mobile only platform is pretty much destined to be the lowest quality social media site around.

Just having a keyboard and mouse makes thoughtful expression so much easier.

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That's why change needs to come from the corporate level through regulation.

People generally just want food, shelter, health, and comfort. And most people in the world are struggling to maintain food and shelter.

Their evironmental footprint doesn't even register as an afterthought.

For example...

Go look at your local Walmart and it's bazillion products. They expect to sell almost everything in that store multiple times within a month. All that generates enormous waste on a scale that's literally impossible for the earth to sustain for another 100 years without total ecological collapse.

We're living in the single most polluting decade in human history, every decade, since all of us were born. Even if the entire Lemmy user base become subsistence farming monks, the factories would just keep churning out poison unphased.

I'm not saying it's bad for people to try and consume more responsibly. I'm just saying it doesn't make a difference over any meaningful time period until there's a radical change in how our global economy functions.

Environmental catastrophe will continue until we literally cannot ignore it, only then will we do anything substantial about it. Unfortunately that's just how our society works.

Surely this isn't true.

I got a message saying I apparently have premium and/or coins, and to use them before they expire.

But, even before the Reddit plague I had no way of even knowing that, because I used old Reddit and RiF.

Anyway, my point is that this change only affects official Reddit app users, and new Reddit users.

So Reddit found a way to take stuff away from the users who weren't directly affected by the third-party app shutdowns.

It's a genius way to make sure everyone is pissed off all at once.

The guy above definitely could have left the politics out of that comment, since there's nothing more bipartisan than rich people fucking the working class.

I've been wondering why this isn't talked about more.

All those commercial mortgages are intertwined with banks, and retirement accounts, and all sorts of "stable" investments.

Plus it's not just the offices directly affected by pandemic remote work that aren't renewing their leases. New companies wont lease a building since it's not expected anymore, and big companies will be counting the beans to see how much they can save by reducing office space.

This is a phase shift in commercial real estate that I don't think banks have budgeted for.

I'm sure everyone on wall street knows it's coming, but if they can act surprised and get another bailout in a major crash, that's just going to cost you and me our futures, again.