Pika

@Pika@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Firm agree. When they do stuff like this, they are estimating demand. Even big companies aren’t expecting even a quarter of their users to use the full extent of their plans. they are estimating that a user will overestimate how much they need and buy a larger plan than necessary that way they have wiggle room without needing to find alternatives later. This practice is also why many companies start mass spamming you when your allotment gets over 60% used, they are betting that you will buy a larger plan to futureproof yourself on the platform, which also allows them to generally allow for higher base plans than needed so its usually a win/win for the storage company.

  But in cases like this where the market gets shot and they have a super high influx of people who actually want to use the full extent, they need to take measures like stated where they drop the free plans allotment in favor of hoping people get pushed to the larger plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I don’t use it but, that seems like a fairly ok privacy page compared to the other storage vendors. It’s stated outside of using third party services such as AI optimization and sharing your info, it stays within their company only.

  They may share infastructure with other venders, but they make it pretty clear your info stays with them unless you agree otherwise.

  The only part I’m really super against is the fact that they are logging your clipboard when you use shared links, that seems like a pretty bad violation of privacy but, everything else seems pretty reasonable for a file storage host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  its 100% going to be a bait and switch. It starts at 1TB, then it downgrades to a lower amount (seems like 30 GB), then eventually it will be downgraded even more. Eventually it will be under what you are utilizing and you will need to either upgrade your plan for a premium, or migrate your data elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, aside from humble choice, I don’t really use the platform much anymore. It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen a half-decent game bundle through them which is unfortunate.

  I still find their humble choice program is well worth the money put in it is a shame that their bundles just fall through now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of my games come from Humble Bundle, or steam sales

  Once upon a time, I used to be an avid user of G2A, which is a third-party key site. But when Steam added the ability of being able to return video games that are purchased for a party, I stopped using this site as often because it’s usually more cost effective for me to spend a dollar or two more and be able to return the game if it’s a lemon.

  I do still troll through fanatical, though, every once and awhile they drop some amazing bundles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  part of it was yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they made the statement with apple but then decided the exact opposite with google. I think Sony will run into similar issues as google, but we will see

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have a strong suspicion that the end of the road of this type of move is going to end with an anti-trust case. Like, I don’t see any way to avoid that.

  You can’t have a platform dictate everything about how it sells merchant wise without having an antitrust involved.

  It may not be the US doing it, but I do think that some country is going to antitrust them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good offer! Which one should I pick?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That or they’re on a legacy plan and the service wasn’t designed with legacy plans in mind. So when it says Save 50%, it’s 50% on the standard service, not 50% on your current plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black coffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand your point but, I see black coffee to fall under the same area.

  A black coffee is exactly that, when you modify it it’s no longer a black coffee. Just like if you say you are cashing a check but you want to deposit it instead, that’s depositing a check not cashing it. When you add a modifier to a word like that, the expectation is that the modifier is honored.

  I don’t see a precedent where a black coffee should be able to be misconstrued. I can understand your example of the drip coffee, but people saying that are going to just use “drip coffee”, “coffee”, “normal coffee” or any other phrase that isn’t already an existing product in the world. And if it is misconstrued by the consumer, that is the customers problem, and if they receive the wrong product they will realize the issue and fix it for next time.

  You could change how you order it but, the fact is it shouldn’t be required for an establishment to provide what is ordered. The barista not knowing what a black coffee is, at the end of the day is a failure on the establishment, and indicates the employee likely wasn’t trained adequately for the job. Forcing the consumer to change how they order may help the customer, but it isn’t going to help the underlining issue which is that the barista doesn’t know what “black coffee” means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black coffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if I went to a restaurant and I asked for a plain burger and they still supplied condiments, it’s going back. That’s not what a plain burger is by definition, I’ve only ever gotten plain burgers without condiments though so I haven’t experienced this. I assume they did it that way as a “well if they wanted no condiments they would specify dry” but thats still an off case.

  I don’t agree with normalizing to the niche/off cases. Definitions in the field should be what people generally expect. In most of the english speaking world, a black coffee means no milk/cream, usually no sugar, I could understand them adding sugar to it, although it would annoy me, but to add milk to a black coffee is not explainable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black coffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, it’s more I wouldn’t want to sound weird to everyone else around me. Asking for a black coffee with no cream or sugar is to the same effect of saying “hi yes I would like scrambled eggs cooked please”.

  If I went to my bank teller and said “Yea I would like to cash this check please” you aren’t expected to have to say “I would like to cash this check back as cash please”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black coffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… I’m all for more detail but, I can’t shift the blame on this one. “no cream no sugar” is literally what “black coffee” means… If I go to a McDonald’s and ask for a cheeseburger, I’m not going to ask them to put cheese on it, its expected as it’s a cheese burger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I prefer physical release. Optical media is dogshit overall. it’s restrictive on size, subject to bit rot, and prone to being damaged if not kept properly.

  I would much prefer the ability to have it software/digital side, but have actual ownership of it.

  Hell it could even still have DRM as long as I had the authority to sell it or trade it again when I was done and didn’t involve crashing my performance like denuvo does.

  Digital media could 1000% work well its just companies don’t want it to work well as a digital release with the benefits of physical media actively means less sales for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  how does a disc to digital feature work without the reader to actually read the disc. This seems weird. I assume its either going to be used as a service they provide, meaning that they take the disk and give you the digital form, or an additional piece of hardware that you have to buy on top of it, but instead of it just reading the disc like a normal disk , it copies to digital like how the VHS recorders worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Profoundly Disappointed:" Companies Respond To Sony's Decision To End Disc Support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yea but that doesn’t matter, if people just didn’t buy it in favor of just playing the ones available, the ps7 would backtrack heavy and have a disk reader. Hell I firmly expect they would actually make a mid line change to provide a ps6 with a disk reader if they felt that it was a primary reason people wern’t buying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium Lite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to mention that it doesn’t allow for mobile queuing either. That was what made me drop my sub as a whole instead of just downgrading. I would rather just use ad block style services such as gray-jay then experience mobile youtube without the ability to queue videos. I use it heavily for going to sleep, and with how finicky the auto play system is for choosing what video it should play next, there’s no way I trust it to not absolutely screw my suggested videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I really only got mine for Ragnarok. and as an upgrade to my 4k player. Which I then proceeded to only use detective Pikachu in. So, definitely not my brightest usage of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly even if you got it launch price, it wasn’t worth it. Mine’s collected dust since launch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Societal preferences combined with a fairly unrestricted market.

  In the US, people don’t go to college in order to increase their knowledge. They go to be able to pursue theoretical higher paid jobs.

  Going to school/college in the US isn’t to increase societal knowledge, its for selfish personal gains and as such only really shared by the person going.

  This combined with very few restrictions on what colleges can charge means that the excuse of “well it’s for your own personal development” can be used as a way to sidestep the inexcusable pricing.

  in many countries, the post-education sector is either subsidized or cheaper cost due to society having a higher value on the actual education aspects of it and the want of the general members to be more knowledgeable, that value isn’t as strong in the US, and depending on what state you are in may actually be against the members interests as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep your shit organized?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I put things in where I think I will remember where they are, then spend 3 days looking for it tearing the house apart when I actually want to use them. Then by the time I finally find them all ambition to do the project is gone so I put it back till I’m ready again. Process repeats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m making the argument that gaming is not a cheap hobby.

  It can’t be cheap regardless of what is stated.

  The cost of your steam deck alone has already ate up over two thirds of what I have spent fishing in the past ten or so years and that’s with a rod, a few ice fishing rigs and buying a yearly fishing license.

  Gaming is not a cheap hobby. There are ways that you can make it cheaper, but I would never agree that it is one of the lesser expensive hobbies.

  I think I would have to agree with your metric of 450 being the starting point., because this Steam Deck is probably the cheapest option you can have for a gaming system at this point but that’s not going to provide you with any games. You are going to have to find some way of doing so, and for someone who just spent $450 on a gaming unit, that probably means you’re going to be spending money on the Steam store. Because it’s not like Epic Game Studios allows you to retroactively redeem every freebie they offer.

  I spent $150 on my rod, another $100 on my ice fishing rig, and I have spent 30 a year for my fishing license. You can also include the boat, if you like, which would be $50 that I spent 15 years ago, but I generally fish off the shore.

  Now, I will agree with you that if you’re doing deep sea fishing, that’s where the mega bucks is. My parents do that. I couldn’t do it. Because that’s like $1,500 for the boat trip, or buying a boat that can handle the ocean. on top of the at minimum $300 deep-sea fishing poles because everything needs to be stronger and weighted

  But I definitely don’t agree that fishing as a whole is a more hobby than gaming, that concept is absolutely ludicrous to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have my doubts that it’s one of the cheaper hobbies. In my eyes it’s one of the most expensive ones you can have. It has a high entry level cost(if you are a PC gamer likely 1k+), plus a moderate to high upkeep cost(new games @ ~30-70$ depending on quality) to keep in the hobby. It’s also one of the few hobbies where you are expected to upgrade at least every few years in order to stay relevant.

  Most hobbies are a cost to enter, then a relatively small upkeep style cost. For example engineering, fishing, scrapbooking, puzzles, hunting, even crocheting or knitting are all you buy the tool for it, and then maybe spend a yearly cost for new supplies or a license to do the hobby.

  Gaming the cost never goes down. You are either buying a new game cause the old one was completed, or upgrading your parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my thought on it. It’s not a physical release without a physical componant

  This is like fortnite classifying its release as physical because its dlc had a code that was in a game case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 Reveals $80 Price Tag And Ultimate Edition Bonuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well, I can’t say I’m surprised they did, but I can’t say it made it any more likely for me to buy the game.

  I already disliked the anti linux approach they did with late GTA 5, and I can’t say I was all that impressed as a whole with GTA 5 in regards to the multiplayer first mentality it had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite gaming console you have played?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ps2.

  I loved the ps3 don’t take me wrong, but the ps2 just had that nostolgia and legacy aspects of it. The splash screen, the menu design, the simplicity. It was so nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The President of the United States gave a speech today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not very often that you can watch a video unmuted and get even less context then if you watched it muted. I’m thoroughly lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The President of the United States gave a speech today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched it with sound and im still just as lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now with more privacy!*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I threw my worry about ID theft out the window with the NPS leak 3 or 4 years back. To me it’s no longer a if but a when, and stupidly the US government doesn’t allow you to request SSN change until damages occur and even then its a case by case basis, so the best I can do is wait for something to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now with more privacy!*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the point of the post but, they are hosting a VPN service only to paying customers. they need /some/ way of linking an account to a customer, otherwise you can’t verify if who is using it actually paid for it.

  yes they could just do like how mullvad does it, give a 1 off account number and if you lose the number you are SOL; but you need to look at FF’s general user base as well. they are trying to advertise this service to their casual userbase for privacy and anonymity while browsing the web. the path of least resistance is via the firefox account, that already likely exists for anyone already using the browser and is already tied into their eco system anyway.

  also in my mind, if you don’t trust your VPN enough to have an account on it of some sort of throwaway identifier, you likely shouldn’t use that VPN in the first place. If when you go to sign up your first thought is “should i be giving this piece of info to this service” its not the service for you regardless if they later remedy it.