HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who could have predicted this?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that the Windows monopoly isn’t worth having any more and Microsoft is flailing in trying to make it worth it.

  Microsoft can’t force an app store like Apple and Google can for iOS and Android. No one is going to buy an OS subscription like they do for Office 365. And, I’m sure that Microsoft earns almost nothing on new installs because of how cheap hardware has gotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  China put a planning halt on building new subways in 2020 and its construction industry is in freefall. It built a lot of impressive infrastructure, but the nation overbuilt a lot and is still processing dealing with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But even then, Godot is an engine instead of a game. For various reasons, it appears that the ratio of open source games to closed source games is orders of magnitude lower than other forms of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t going to get corporate nonsense, but volunteer nonsense instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are eugenics bad seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eugenics becomes a way to justify less fair societies for reasons that don’t fully meet scientific rigor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is canon.

  Even the actor written fanfiction?

  Especially the actor written fanfiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "AI" the end of truth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in my day, we assumed that if it was on TV, it was a lie or likely not the whole truth.

  Maybe you as a person, but a lot of society generally trusted broadcast television news. I think that part of the problem with old people going down the MAGA news hole is that they grew up in a time where you didn’t need a lot of media literacy to the level you do now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but is this a communist parade because that’s a lot of red flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please some more Sir?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Drake?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like part of it was that the console revisions past 2008 aren’t as big of a deal as they were before. You also had publishers start producing games for multiple generations of consoles at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the problem for consumer grade Linux is that the general population needs far more support than the industry currently offers.

  Steam and Google seem closest to consumer grade Linux because the support they need to provide is subsided by their app stores and other services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨𝙸 𝚗 𝚜 𝚝 𝚊 𝚐 𝚛 𝚊 𝚖⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they want to see your picture to sign into the site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve shifted to talking about tertiary education, which I’ll agree that the USA hasn’t funded to the level of other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how we shoehorned “China Bad” into the discussion.

  I’m not, but you’ve identified a a thing as American without looking at how the rest of the world operates and how some practices may be an international standard or at least more uniform than just one country. I didn’t say “China bad”, I brought up that China performs the a similar filtering of students; you applied the label that I was saying “China bad”.

  It sounds like you’re angry at the American system, a system you know, and think other systems must be better without understanding how other secondary education systems work. Other countries may do some things than the USA, but a lot of the basic structure that you complained out is more universal than you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even then, career tracking absolutely can and does take on a segregationist character when the wages of the labor make access to certain career paths a purchasable privilege.

  And yet it appears in most countries, including Communist ones like China. This isn’t a uniquely American action.

  That’s how you get all the Eton College grads going into politics and journalism as a single congealed cohort.

  That’s more due to family connections. Most UK students taking their A-Levels aren’t going into politics and journalism.

  And that’s created a rich vein of for-profit schools that exist above the High School grade, which people are obligated to assume debts to attend in order to be accredited for certain jobs.

  The USA still has one of the best public university systems in the world. This includes community college programs which help “lower” track students get a 4 year college degree.

  And, going back to what I’ve said earlier, other countries have degree restrictions on their jobs as well. Senior government positions in other countries are usually the domain of the college educated, with a much lower percentage of their populations having a college degree.

  You keep pointing to things happening in the USA as a uniquely American set-up and therefore evil without being able to contrast that with his the rest of the world handles secondary education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would disagree. A lot of countries provide a multi track secondary education too account for the desire and ability of different students. Having different education tracks isn’t just American invention. It just happens to be that there is an easier jump from the lower education track to college in the USA compared to other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that, compared to before, a lot of services have shifted from interfacing with a human to interfacing with technology in some way. The ability to interact with a human in person may not be available or will have additional costs.

  Same with using cash. A lot of places have become card only because it is cheaper to pay 3% processing fees than to handle the labor costs of dealing with cash, especially in a larger organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You needed a payment card of some sort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what part of the world you live in. At minimum, for the developed world, you’ll probably need at least #3 to maintain a job and connectivity with various government and commercial entities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it depends on how you needed to sign up to buy tickets, but I bought tickets on my phone in Sweden with my smartphone in Sweden with only a valid email address. The app even had an English mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For longer lines with more than 100m passengers a year and travel times of five hours or less—such as the one between Beijing and Shanghai—the more expensive type may be justifiable.

  It is less so for journeys between commuter towns, during which trains only briefly accelerate to top speeds. For longer journeys serving sparse populations—a description that fits many of the lines in western and northern China—high-speed rail is prohibitively expensive.

  …

  But the network expansion now under way is even bolder than Mr Liu had envisaged. China has a four-by-four grid at present: four big north-south and east-west lines. Its new plan is to construct an eight-by-eight grid by 2035. The ultimate goal is to have 45,000km of high-speed track. Zhao Jian of Beijing Jiaotong University, who has long criticised the high-speed push, reckons that only 5,000km of this will be in areas with enough people to justify the cost. “With each new line, the losses will get bigger,” he says.

  It appears to be the argument that the Economist is making. High Speed rail is a good technology that should be implemented, just not at the scale China implemented it at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do we have to consider public transport “a waste of money” when they are not being run as a business.

  Because, even if it isn’t being run as a business, it is still being run as a government service. Since no country has infinite money, there is still a cost benefit ratio that should be looked into. There are a lot of government projects or there which are bad investments and should be deprioritozed over other better investments.

  This ties into use. A lot of Chinese still use low speed rail because they can’t afford the high speed rail tickets. There may be some lines where it is better to fund and and expand low speed rail because the demand isn’t there for high speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m speaking in context to Sina’s comment. Because a company/service becomes shitty doesn’t mean that the company/service loses a lot of market share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the Nazi bar still has patrons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As second hand story from someone who lived in a Mafia controlled part of New York City, the neighborhood that he lived in was a poor working class neighborhood. Yet, each storefront had full glass pane windows while the other neighborhoods nearby had bars on their windows.

  The Mafia have an interest in protecting those “under their protection”. This would also spoil over into charity. The Mafia would generally be charitable to those within their neighborhoods to buy off complicity of the locals. For instance, you may not turn someone in if that person is running a soup kitchen in the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it? Twitter is a Nazi bar, but it still has a large customer base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason to own a browser is to shape the Internet to your company’s favor.

  Internet Explorer was designed to ensure web apps would be hard to build, helping to ensure the Windows monopoly.

  Chrome was designed to open the Internet, but tie it to Google search and keep Internet browsing lucrative for advertising, helping to benefit Ad Sense.

  An AI startup owning Chrome is probably going to be the biggest privacy nightmare since Copilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.