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- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 1 week ago:
Why?
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Lack of Feature Parity
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Stickiness of library transfer
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Stickiness of social network effects
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It’s still better ethically than Apple Music or YouTube Music, which behave anti-competitively
1: I’ve tried out Quobuz, it’s pretty good, but it does not have the Jam / Group Session feature which me and my friends use constantly while gaming remotely. It also does not have an Xbox app which I use while playing games. I find Spotify’s recommendations somewhat underwhelming, but Quobuz has a noticeably worse recommendation engine, at least for my genres and tastes.
2: Quobuz uses a third party service to automatically transfer your library, which worked pretty well, but did require jumping through a bunch of hoops and subscribing to a trial subscription that I then had to cancel. It also did not find matches for some songs.
3: In addition to friends on Spotify all using Jams, there’s also an inherent niceness to just being able to text people Spotify links, especially since there’s no cross platform linking service that would make that easy.
4: supporting Spotify may not be great, but its still better than supporting a trillion dollar anti-competitive corporation.
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- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
Why are you even on here if it hasn’t?
- Comment on Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC 1 week ago:
I misread the comment hierarchy, I thought this was a part of a different chain.
- Comment on Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC 1 week ago:
No one should be able to do it is the right reaction, but ‘Nintendo deserves no blame or shame for choosing to do it’ is the wrong reaction. Nintendo could have used all the money it spends on IP lawyers to instead lobby the government to change the patent system, but instead they spend it all on lawyers so that they can sell you the same game on a new system.
- Comment on Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC 1 week ago:
Classic American response: “companies aren’t responsible for the shitty choices they make, they can make as many shitty choices that harm people for profit as possible at all times and it’s just business”.
- Comment on Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC 1 week ago:
Once again, showing why Nintendo is a POS company.
Compete by making better games and stories, not by patenting basic role playing game mechanics and suing your competition.
- Comment on E-Paper Display Reaches the Realm of LCD Screens 1 week ago:
I’m very curious about the actual latency.
The refresh rate certainly impacts latency, but there are other factors that can effect Time To First Update, been if it can play quickly after that.
Exciting though, even a relatively low res e ink screens that’s fully viewable in daylight would make an amazing portable monitor.
- Comment on oh&shit 1 week ago:
Ohh, what’s really going to bake your noodle later on, is why do forklift driver’s need to be recertified every 3 years but driver’s only need to be recertified every … never … when they’re 70 or something depending where you are?
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 weeks ago:
I think it depends a lot on the specifics of the situation.
Did you buy a single family home / house that you’re living in, and renting out part of to help pay your mortgage? Then it depends on the rent you charge.
If you charge market rates and you can afford to charge less than market rates, or if you hire contractors and maintenance people for the unit that are cheaper / worse than the ones you use for your own unit, then yes, you are being exploitative and hypocritical.
If, however, you treat the unit like your own and charge below market rates then no, you’re not.
If you build an addition on your house, or build a laneway house or something, then it’s more reasonable to charge market rates for rent because you’ve actually added new housing to the area, an act that in itself should help to slightly drop rents. Same thing if you buy vacant property and build rental units on it. However, if you continue charging the most you possibly can long after you’ve made your money back then you’re back into the territory of being an exploitative hypocrite.
And if you’re just in a hot market and buying up houses / condos, and renting them back to people as is, or just doing the cheapest and shittiest job you can turning them into apartments, then yes you are being a hypocrite. At that point you’re just using your capital to buy up a limited quantity item and sell it back to people at exploitative rates. It would be like being stranded in the desert and buying up the remaining water and then selling it back to people for a profit. You’re providing no value to society, just using past success to force people into a corner where they have to pay you for a necessity that’s in limited supply.
- Comment on Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct' 2 weeks ago:
American courts prove themselves to be useless once again.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that either are supposed to be slimy, I think that’s usually a sign of an algae or health problem, so both would fit that corner, which then leaves the open corner as Legs=4, Slime=Yes, and House=1
- Comment on That one Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
Coral?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 4 weeks ago:
Did you read that link before posting?
In comparison with other construction materials (aluminium, steel, even brick), concrete is one of the least energy-intensive building materials.[2]
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 4 weeks ago:
I understand the distaste for the aesthetics. But it’s a pretty inarguably better material from a structural, cost, sound blocking, etc. standpoint.
Don’t get me wrong, I love red brick, and personally want a red brick house, but I also recognize the sheer practicality of concrete blocks and would probably pick that with a brick veneer if I actually had to pay for it.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 month ago:
That seems absurd, we’d never build a civilization if everyone was at this level of dysfunction or anywhere near a majority, nevermind one with such rigid specific rules.
Yeah, we would.
A) ADHD does not prevent most people from living a normal life
B) most of human society throughout history has not required the level of planning and attention that modern society does
C) ADHD does not matter if you’re a slave or indentured servant who’s going to get beat if they don’t do their job
D) ADHD symptoms tend to lesson with exercise and hard physical labour
And recent surveys have as many as 25% of people suspecting they may have undiagnosed ADHD:
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 month ago:
The diagnosed ones generally are, the others are often self medicating in a variety of ways.
- Comment on Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same 1 month ago:
Yeah, it would not surprise me if the Supreme Court blocked it for being too reasonable.
- Comment on Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same 1 month ago:
This judge actually fully understand how companies abuse two sided marketplaces and is thus forcing Google to open up both sides of the market place to competition. Both forcing Google to host new app stores inside the Play store so that they’re visible to consumers, and forcing Google to allow those app stores to distribute the Google Play apps so that the app stores aren’t crippled by a lack of developers.
This is a way way way bigger win than I could ever have hoped for.
- Comment on Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same 1 month ago:
PC Gamers think Epic is the devil incarnate because they paid for exclusive games for the EGS, meanwhile they have made a bigger impact in the world of digital anti-trust than virtually anyone else on the planet.
Allowing companies to conglomerate is the single worst thing that prevents capitalism from functioning even a little bit, and tech companies are the worst at false claiming that every product needs to be tied to every other product.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 month ago:
LMFAO, you take your ADHD diagnosis too seriously.
- Comment on Could someone please explain/Tldr the Subnautica 2 controversy? I liked the first one, but I'm severely out of the loop. 1 month ago:
Unknown Worlds was created by Charlie Cleveland and was originally a group of developers making a half life mod: Natural Selection.
With its success, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire formed the official studio called Unknown Worlds, and then hired more people to make Natural Selection 2.
After Natural Selection 2, Unknown Worlds made Subnautica 1. Charlie Cleveland was the director, designer, and lead programmer on it. Max McGuire was also a programmer on it, Hugh Jeremy was the producer.
After this, Charlie Cleveland moved into a CEO role, Max McGuire moved in the role of company President, and Trey had Ted Gill as CEO.
They released Subnautica Below Zero, which none of them were that involved in to somewhat more middling reviews.
They sold Unknown Worlds to Krafton, and in the contract it had a $250M bonus spread amongst the staff of Unknown Worlds for on time delivery of Subnautica 2.
Allegedly Krafton asked Charlie Cleveland to work on also producing a Subnautica movie, so he was focusing on that.
Apparently at a milestone review Krafton was unhappy with the amount of content that would be in Subnautica 2 early access. They asked the team to increase it by 30%. The team refused and thought it was ready to release.
Krafton then fired the two studio founders (Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire), the CEO (Ted Gill), and put in a new CEO who delayed the release past the point of the staff getting the $250m bonus.
The studio then pledged to give the staff a $25m bonus instead.
The fired leadership team is now suing Krafton, meanwhile Krafton is claiming that it was just acting in the beat interests of not disappointing gamers.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 1 month ago:
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
A population where everyone is armed will also almost certainly have more firepower than a single terrorist group, too.
It will also arm a whole shit of load terrorists, and people just having a bad day.
The power dynamic is between the terrorists and anyone who would oppose them, not just the state.
Yeah, and now you’ve raised the floor massively.
when terrorists are basically always ultimately handled by a military force
[citation needed]
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
It requires not allowing the police to be outgunned by terrorists.
Notice that it was after the LA bank robbery in the 90s, where two guys had tons of body armour and military rifles and outgunned the LAPD with their 6 shooters, that you suddenly saw every single police force across the country militarize and by assault rifles, body armour, and APCs.
Notice how in the UK their cops still patrol without guns.
The state will always maintain a monopoly on the top level of violence. The idea of gun ownership to oppose the state is laughable. Notice: right now, no gun owners using them to oppose the state.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
Changegenerallh comes about from mass mobilization. The French have gotten more concessions from the government and the rich through mass strikes than Americans ever have firing guns. I’m not naiive to the idea that it’s all purely 100% peaceful protest, but one man with a gun rarely makes a significant change in the overall direction compared to hundreds of thousands of people turning out and threatening the economy.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
Well in a democracy, presumably the people who vote for politicians. In a democracy with a constitution that guarantees rights and security for non voters then them as well.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
The state always maintains a monopoly on violence. Otherwise you’d have a terrorist show up and the state would be unable to stop them.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
No one’s going to argue that there aren’t going to be edge cases that are hard to criticize, but in general, supporting any kind of systemic vigilante justice always leads incredibly quickly to innocent people getting lynched and cycles of reciprocal violence.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 1 month ago:
Go back to bed gramps
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 1 month ago:
You’re the daftest fucking idiot alive if you think spray painting a slogan makes you a terrorist organization.