Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Premium Ads 3 days ago:
The only time I’ve had an ad on YouTube with premium is when I went in to invisible mode.
In my opinion it’s absolutely stupid that invisible mode has the capability of detecting that you have an account because it skips the age verification blocker on content-sensitive videos, but it gives ads to people with premium. It’s obviously able to see that you have a YouTube account so therefore it should be able to just do the next step of saying okay does this account have premium. The only thing people are asking for was it to not log the videos they’re watching but they had to make it some Next Generation NASA level secret hidden profile shit that doesn’t actually do anything.
Also it really bugs me that they’ve added ads for YouTube and beds on discord. If I have my YouTube account linked to my Discord account I should not receive ads on the in bed. It should be able to see my YouTube account via electrons cookie system and be able to link it to an account that has premium.
- Comment on Premium Ads 3 days ago:
I didn’t realize that they still had grandfather’s subscriptions, I was the same where I got it at a lower price, but they decided that they weren’t going to honor that price 2 years ago and raised it anyway. I’ve told myself I’m dropping the sub if it goes up again because honestly it’s current price is a little outrageous. But I watch over a thousand hours of YouTube a year so therefore it’s worth it to me.
- Comment on Quick. Someone invent an AI that can block out the orange man’s face everywhere so we don’t have to subject ourselves to it for 4 more years. 1 week ago:
Yeah I hear that, like this post slipped through because they used the term orange man instead, cuz normally I wouldn’t see political like these unless I actively seek them out
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 1 week ago:
Many have stated demand vs supply but, a lot of it is also because many jobs are scared to have entry level as remote. The ability to train on the go is more difficult then in house, so many entry level positions start as office jobs and move over to WFH, this causes a difficulty for people who can only do WFH
- Comment on Quick. Someone invent an AI that can block out the orange man’s face everywhere so we don’t have to subject ourselves to it for 4 more years. 1 week ago:
most mobile clients allow for it based off titles and post content, some sneak through like this one, but overall the feature exists for third party.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
no, I’m not sure where everyone is getting that ideology. Obviously if there is physical threat move. I’m just saying that moving to a blue state isn’t a permanent solution and it’s just going to fuck them twice over later.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
that’s a sticky question, there’s no perfect answer sadly.
the solution of moving to a blue state is a good short term fix. However it won’t survive a long-term exposure. Eventually the federal level laws will outlaw the state level laws regarding it and their protections in the blue state won’t help them anymore. When that happens the only outcome is all red laws.
In a perfect world, due to everyone dispersing into the red districts, it would saturate the polls in those districts, requiring either district remaps via gerrymandering to win. Unless there truly is more red voters then blue, in which case there is no solution to this problem while remaining in the US, the only valid option is either a second civil war, or moving to another country and hoping that it doesn’t spread. Neither options are ideal.
- Comment on The election is over so here's the happily ever after 1 week ago:
I mean, I can see it.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
keep in mind this opinion also promises that it can’t be fixed, as the more blue voters that leave the red leaning states the more power those red leaning states have. Moving to a blue leaning state only removes the blue votes from the red leaning state in favor of increasing the power of an already blue state.
Of course if he somehow manages to find a way to do away with the election process this would be true, but currently the best bet overall is going to be stay in your state, honestly if you can lower solid blue districts in favor of saturating red districts.
Our system does not operate under popular vote. It runs off the electoral college, its the main reason red states want to gerrymander the district lines to make all black areas be their own district, its less damage if every opponent is in the same district as it allows only one district to be in opposition instead of multiple.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 weeks ago:
Hey that’s looking damn close to what mine is
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 3 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat, it hasn’t been 6 years for me but like they’re pricing alone has done a pretty damn good job at making me not want to go there outside of if I’m on vacation, you for a little while were able to use their deals program to get pretty decent deals, but now even the deals suck. Likes her example currently they’re offering a buy one get one hamburger, or 40% off a cheeseburger. Not even close to an incentive to go due to their burgers starting at 2$ a burger.
At their pricing it’s better for me to order the two for 26 at Applebee’s which gets me to actual burgers of okay quality with bacon, two things of fries and an appitizer.
You wait roughly around the same time for an order of that size and you pay less plus you’re good for the next two or three meals.
Since 2019 the cost of my typical order at McDonald’s has gone from about $12, to almost 19$ its insane
- Comment on PlayStation Stars will no longer give credit for money spent on subscriptons 3 weeks ago:
mine as well, mine was off so long I needed to manually update it via flash drive to connect to the internet for some reason, I just haven’t felt the need to use it
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 4 weeks ago:
From my experience Amazon is generally either on par or equal to the price of straight from the source, which means when you add the free shipping to it, it’s generally cheaper from my experience. It could just be me not living in a super populated state though
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 4 weeks ago:
I buy on Amazon because quite frankly it’s cheaper. It used to be the case where you could look up an item on Amazon search the supplier and buy it directly many times with it cheaper than Amazon. Nowadays that’s not the case.
Principles can only go so far, there is no reason anymore for me to go through the hassle of searching for the item on amazon, searching up the merchant online to see if they have a web page(many don’t), going through the hassle of having to fill in the payment information and then also having to worry about each and every company’s return policy; when I can just order it through Amazon, usually get free shipping on the item which already saves me seven or eight dollars a purchase, and not have to worry about any of the hassle and if something goes wrong I know that more than likely Amazon will have my back during the return process.
People buy from the company because they’re able to offer a service that many other businesses do not do strictly because of their size, and unfortunately I don’t think that’s fixable
- Comment on Protect Your Dick Data 4 weeks ago:
ooo so that’s why they never seem to work, makes so much sense now! /j
- Comment on Hey we got your pics pay up! ASAP! 1 month ago:
Photobucket did the same thing I almost lost all of my photos that I had on it from my early teenage years because I almost missed the email(I was two days from the DDay)
Basically they decided that they no longer wanted their free tier and any photos that were stored on the platform as a free tear had a certain amount of time before they would be deleted. The platform heavily tried to convince people who are on the free tier that the only way of getting their photos would be to pay for their premium tier for a month and then cancel but I was able to figure out a way to just download it it was hidden heavily in the settings behind multiple paywall triggers.
- Comment on Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down 1 month ago:
They realized that most people will just cave and not actually go through the hassle of Defending themselves in court, so therefore why not
- Comment on Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld isn't just bad for the industry, it's bad for Nintendo 1 month ago:
that would be a trademark or copyright suit not a patent suit. Patents are strictly mechanics, they didn’t sue on design, I agree I think they had a better case on that, but the Nintendo lawyers decided otherwise
- Comment on Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld isn't just bad for the industry, it's bad for Nintendo 1 month ago:
the problem is, palworld isn’t “pokemon with guns”, they used that slogan originally sure, but palworld 100% shows more similar mechanics and concepts to ark then pokemon, it’s a mix of pokemon style mechanics and Arks RPG mechanics. I would say they had a stronger suite against trademark than they did mechanics side.
The only game mechanic similarity between the two is the ball capture system and the fact that it’s called a trainer/leader when you battle the NPC’s anything else is already present in other games.
By this logic, any game that features the ability to tame or capture monsters would be a pokemon clone. That’s far too broad of a category to allow as a patent if challenged. I personally believe it will result in them losing the patent as a whole if it is that patent they are fighting with.
- Comment on 'let me show you the nether before bed' 1 month ago:
I use graveyard mods for it, gives me at least a chance but lowers challenge some
- Comment on I think Sims is a dead franchise now 1 month ago:
paralives is so slow development though, and the lack of teaser releases concerns me about the quality. I have high expectations for it as well but starting to grow concerned
- Comment on Department of Transportation 1 month ago:
I was just about to say a comment on the billboards, like wtf how is this legal. So glad that my state has them banned lol
- Comment on Just a reminder... 1 month ago:
I’m mobile so I can’t check those numbers, but they leave the sources they got for the calculations they provided, by category here
I know the numbers are pretty on point for for poverty vs living wage for my area, but like any actual research studies YMMV, but they do have sources of why they have the numbers they do, and they are by verified/reliable sources
- Comment on Just a reminder... 1 month ago:
the definition of living wage is already defined by MIT
They actually have a pretty decent website that calculates it for you here
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
I came across it in an AI argument post, and it’s been stuck in my head since
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
“all I want for Christmas is you…”
Well that’s enough lemmy for today
- Comment on Remedy replacing Bowie song from Alan Wake over 'licensing' 2 months ago:
Yet another reason that I’ll be right really needs to be revamped hardcore. You should not be able to retroactively revoke a copyright and the entire idea of yeah I license you to be able to use this for x amount of years is ridiculous to me either you can use the Media or you can’t.
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 2 months ago:
It’s monopolistic practice is soley due to its market share, that alone is enough to. It’s a monopoly that isn’t anti-competitive, it’s inherently not bad, as long as it isn’t being Abused, many misconstrue anti-competitive as monopolistic, the term doesn’t go hand and hand.
Monopolistic competition exists when many companies offer competing products or services that are similar, but not perfect substitutes.This is valve at the moment with steam. Alternatives exist but none come even close to being a full substitute. but that’s OK it isn’t a bad thing, but it doesn’t change the fact it’s monopolistic.As for the gog thing, maybe it is easier than I thought, if so I’m surprised that no other game store has done so, steam dedicated an entire division to it and it still has a lot of issues with functionality and usage.
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 2 months ago:
I agree with almost all of your viewpoints , however I believe that steam has engaged in monopolistic practices. The difference in market share between Steam and any other game launcher is night and day, it is the online game store. That being said that’s not always a bad thing as they have shown
They have a higher than average fees that is for sure, but they also have a significantly bigger feature set than any other store out there. Like when you launch a game on Steam you have a game publishing with built-in DLC support, you have a built-in mod Workshop, you have the review system, you have a built-in DRM if that’s something that you wanted to do, you also have access to a community forum for bug reporting and discussions, not to mention you have the entire steam proton system and the VR system at your disposal both of which are Super complicated to set up stand alone.
Their Workshop, while it takes a 75% cut, is mostly for the Cosmetic items or the trading items were steam does almost exclusively all of the work for it. Basically the only thing the dev team has to do for it is upload the image for the item and the cost that it thinks that item is worth and then steam does the rest. At that point the 75% cut while steep, makes sense to me
Every other reason that they provided in that video, seemed to either hyperbolize the impact of it or disregard what is concidered standard. like for example pricing parity that’s an industry standard, any reputable shop has the same system, and if there is any place that’s different, they actively try to have similar pricing. Hell Walmart hires people strictly to go to their competitors to make sure that their pricing is the same as their competitors. The attribution agreement while I don’t believe should be legal, isn’t anti-competitive, it is anti-consumer but not anti-competitive. I am also super against the fact that technically every game is a license but again that’s not anti-competitive that’s anti-consumer.
I firmly believe that if a game competitor decided to have an equal feature set to the steam launcher, eventually they would be able to give steam a run for their money. Which is not something I can say the same of with companies such as Google which has been proven to actively manipulate the market and use their position of power as a way to keep competitors out, be it by making it so third-party browsers can’t use DRM, or doing things such as manipulating your web results that way your competitors do not appear. I have never seen steam do this
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 2 months ago:
I’m guilty as charged with using YouTube’s new AI feature to summerize videos so I don’t need to watch them