I'm probably not going to pay $10 a year with additional fees to have my music on a website unless a lot of people are already using it
WormFood
joined 1 year ago
this pretty much sums it up. I thought trump would be incoherent, but some of the stuff out of his mouth was borderline surreal. Harris had completely tuned herself to 'beat' trump, and while it worked, it's painfully clear that she doesn't have a single original thought - nothing but platitudes, the same canned phrases about working families and small businesses, same tired defence of Israel.
you can still get the logical journey of the zoombinis on steam (and on android/ios). no joke, I think that game taught me deductive reasoning
I have spent the last 10 years of my career writing open source scientific software
ignorance is one thing, but it's a whole nother level of loser behaviour to intentionally do unpaid work for big tech companies in your free time
the number of people willing to bat for this on Lemmy is truly disturbing. what do they think these ai models are trained on?
this is fine until you need autotools which is worse than cmake
updating packages in kde neon is like playing russian roulette, it's worse than pop os in my experience
because they're not a vigilante justice organisation they just want the media to talk about it
it's the only way they can get the news to engage with it
as an occasional creator of internet videos,I would much rather host my own videos, because bandwidth is actually very cheap. but YouTube has a complete monopoly on internet video, so I have to host my video on their website, subject to their weird and arbitrary conditions, their trigger happy copyright system, and their general terrible treatment of their creators. they pay an absolute pittance for impressions, which is why most professional YouTubers use other revenue streams
the company, Google, that you are paying, didn't make the videos, doesn't fairly compensate the people who did, and they are effectively holding them and the very concept of internet video hostage
people on Lemmy mostly support a free, non-corpo, decentralised internet instead of the parasites at Google because Lemmy is free and decentralised and non corporate
get real
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I love retro gaming on real hardware, but the prices for turn-of-the-millenium software are outrageous. whatever was popular 20 years ago tends to suddenly become very expensive, but after a certain point the price does go down again. I used to collect NES games, when they got too expensive I moved to big box pc games, and now I'm building a Wii and Atari 2600 collection. The 2600 is so old that most of the people who are nostalgic for it aren't actively collecting it. meanwhile, the Wii is still comparatively new (though that will likely change in a few years).
so, I guess my advice is: buy whatever's cheap. I had never played the 2600 before but I ended up developing a genuine appreciation for the console. similarly, I'm picking up Wii games because I love the Wii and I want to make sure I have all the essentials before they get really expensive.
Another alternative is to just buy a console and then use a flashcart/softmod. or use an FPGA system, which will get you a native-like experience.
it sucks that a thing I like so much has become a festival of unrestricted capitalism, but I think it's still possible to carve out a niche and enjoy yourself.