BettyWhiteInHD

@BettyWhiteInHD@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially considering YouTube has no production costs. It’s all user-generated content.

  YT may not have “production costs”, but they certainly not only have huge costs for hosting video, but they also have to pay for staff to develop and support their software, support content creators and sell ads that make their whole business model make sense. YouTube just isn’t a company that has little to no expenses and larger content creators will tell you just as much. And again, video hosting is fucking expensive at any scale and their scale is actually insane.

  I’m not defending YT Premium, I just unsubbed after they increased the price because it’s not really worth it to me at the moment, but the fact that it’s not as expensive as HBO, which by the way will undoubtedly will increase in price like everything has in part because endless VC money is drying up, is not the only factor determining how much a service costs to a consumer. I think we might have to start looking at these things a little more objectively and start weighing how much these services actually cost to run now that maybe businesses can’t just operate in the red forever while shiny teethed confident people convince others that they can and then you.

  For a lot of people that will probably come with a realization that you’re not actually willing to pay for some of these things at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly Discussion Topic - FPS Games - 11-08-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you think it is about it that makes you nauseous? I notice that I get sick when I’m playing first person games with a low field of view and opening it up really helps, as does a higher refresh rate monitor. Have you tried either of those?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d also like to say shame on CNET, Cult of Mac and G/O Media’s The Inventory for writing deal posts about this drive that don’t warn their readers at all. I can’t stop rolling my eyes at this graf in particular:

  What an absolute little fucking whiner. Electronics fail sometimes, it sucks, but that’s the truth. It doesn’t even sound like he discovered any kind of concrete systematic issue here, he’s just bitching because they lost a bunch of footage. Tech journalists are almost as bad as video game journalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devolver Delayed Showcase: 2023 - 2024 Edition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I care about none of those games, I just wanna know if Nina Fucking Struthers is alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does people who hold beliefs that are rooted in hatred ever change to become a better person?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Daryl Davis is a damn hero.

  Here’s a TEDx talk he did a few years ago that’s worth watching. Incredible stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions on this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine I’m a “pile driver operator” and my wife is a “tire repairer and changer”, so we’re in “low exposure”.

  Who wrote this shit?

• lemmy.blahaj.zone has defederated from us - Lemmy NSFW
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨24⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been playing and what do you think of it? 07/16/2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re so damn long though. I feel like I’ve been playing Yakuza 0 for the last 3 years and it never ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been playing and what do you think of it? 07/16/2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprisingly good game, I enjoyed it quite a bit a few months ago.

  Dumb as a brick story, nothing about anything actually makes sense when you think about it for more than 2 seconds, but it’s fun as hell, hordes are legitimately terrifying at times and it looks great and runs like a dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let doom and gloom news terrorize you out of doing things you wanna do and consider that you hear a disproportionate amount of bad news coming out of the US compared to reality.

  Anecdotally my grandma lived in another country and was constantly terrified of the violence and constant strife in the US and feared for our safety because she saw non stop news about how bad things were in the US.

  Meanwhile we were living in one of the safest parts of the country, and even probably the world and she lived a couple blocks away from a spot where a grenade was detonated on a train, her closest metro station was leveled by a suicide bomber and there were at least two stabbings on her own street that I know of.

  Doom and gloom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you can likely do that very easily and very legally and they likely would not care all that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are being downvoted but this is the case in the US. Public airspace is public airspace.

  Source: fly drones recreationally and for money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could for example an Orangutan be divine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, what the fuck are you taking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  #whiteboysummer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I Crazy or is the Mali Government Reclaiming the ml Domain Now is too Convenient of a Time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I crazy but is using a domain typically used by any government a really stupid idea in the first place?

  I get that it was free or cheap, but come on, nobody saw this coming?