darganon
@darganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 month ago:
Netflix is a public company, you can just go look at how wrong you are about this.
They took in $9.3 billion in Q1 2024, and spent $702 million on “technology” and $3.7 billion on adding “content assets”
Their net profit was $2.3 billion, for one quarter. They could afford to just charge less money, but the line must go up.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 months ago:
I saw this headline and immediately thought “ArmouryCrate is the reason”
I certainly avoid ASUS stuff after discovering that piece of nonsense on my new install.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
There is a separate 12v that gets recharged by the HV.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
Keep ranting, but the door locks run off of the 12v.
- Comment on What does your current setup look like? 4 months ago:
I have a Lenovo TS140 in the laundry room, i3-4330, 16GB, 2TB of SSD running arch.
In docker I am running:
Plex, Wire guard, Qbittorrent, Pihole, my discord bot, nginx, and Teslamate.
Works great, I’m probably going to swap my gaming rig in (5800x + 3080 12GB) with more RAM to host some AI stuff and the same services.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
It’s windows security center, Everything search, locales, sound settings, time, copilot, surely not that bad.
Everything is installed by the user, not sure why the locales are there, but maybe he swaps keyboard layouts?
- Comment on ‘Boycott Tesla’ ads to air during Super Bowl — “Tesla dances away from liability in Autopilot crashes by pointing to a note buried deep in the owner’s manual, that says Autopilot is only safe on fr... 4 months ago:
I have a Tesla, they make it extremely clear that you are never supposed to touch autopilot under any circumstances, and you have to go way out of your way to prevent it from disengaging while you’re not paying attention.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 4 months ago:
They’re going to screw their business customers to claw back value for themselves?
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 4 months ago:
Artificial insemination is common with the breeders I am familiar with. Though I’m not sure breeding racks are necessarily animal abuse, dogs in heat are fucking horny.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 4 months ago:
Yeah, there’s a long history but it sort of spawned from people wanted Bachelor Chow irl
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 4 months ago:
If people stop paying for dogs, they will stop breeding them to sell.
Also, I accept death as part of life, but I still look both ways before crossing the street. I’m not getting off this ride any sooner than I have to.
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 4 months ago:
Not all breeders are puppy mills, or producing brachycephalic breeds, but they are out there, and there’s other breeders putting longer noses on pugs and Frenchies.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 4 months ago:
I do, but breakfast and lunch five days a week is more planning and effort than I’m willing to do, so Soylent just gives me back time and energy. Now if I had private chef money, id be rocking French toast every morning before work
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 4 months ago:
Why, though?
I’m pretty cynical, but this is a new level.
Greedy breeders already “produce” more dogs than there are loving families for and as a result dog shelters are constantly full with sad dogs who don´t have a home. This drug will result in shelters getting even more overcrowded.
My dog lives longer and shelters get more crowded? That’s a complete non-sequitor. Much like my choice of lunch doesn’t impact your lunch situation.
Perhaps my reading comprehension is poor, but the article seems to indicate that the pill will give a dog more “active years” and not necessarily more years. I guess we’ll find out in four years when it’s done.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 4 months ago:
Works great, it’s about as cheap as you can get for food, and takes like 10 minutes every two days to prepare.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 4 months ago:
Wanting bachelor chow is basically how I ended up eating Soylent every day.
- Comment on Supreme Court declines to hear Apple-Epic antitrust case, meaning developers can point customers to the web 5 months ago:
I’m not an antitrust lawyer, but I suspect the fact that Android exists makes iPhone not a monopoly.
AT&T owned the phone lines and the equipment, leading to that problem. So if Apple went and bought all of the cell service providers and said “You’re only allowed to use iPhones” that would be similar, and they would probably cease to exist relatively quickly.
- Comment on Supreme Court declines to hear Apple-Epic antitrust case, meaning developers can point customers to the web 5 months ago:
Is it possible to root for both sides to lose in court?
Apple sucks, but it’s their platform, their rules. Android exists, so saying they have a monopoly doesn’t seem right, because they have a monopoly over people that choose to use their products.
Epic wants access to those people, without paying for it.
Ideally neither company would exist, but they’re both not “right” either.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds in Assistant, hardware, engineering teams 5 months ago:
The commute to work on smart screens going away is a headscratcher. How complicated could it be?
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 5 months ago:
That’s pretty gross, but the fries are tasty!
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 5 months ago:
They surely agreed to it, the mixup is that people in general don’t realize how much data and how often Tim Horton’s wants to collect it.
Tim Horton’s should probably just know which Tim Horton’s you’re closest to when you go to place an order, and that’s about it. There’s no reason they should even be allowed to ask to track you all day every day, even if you agree.
That’s sort of the gist of it.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 5 months ago:
I don’t think steam has any anti-competitive behavior that I’m aware of.
Fortnite has roughly 100 million more monthly active users than steam, to say nothing of every piece of software running Unreal Engine, Epic is huge.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 5 months ago:
Who cares about the backing if it has no effect on anything?
It’s more illustrating that Epic isn’t underfunded. I don’t know anything about steam in China.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 5 months ago:
The multi-billionaire owner with the backing of the Chinese government is claiming that he’s the underdog against a popular company/piece of software/GabeN. He’s made some poor choices interacting with the community.
Yes, it’s probably nice for a publisher to have a guaranteed income, which is why they sell exclusivity. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth, so I choose not to support it.
The rest about the launcher being bad sounds unhinged to me, but some people are really into that.
They bought Rocket League and actively made it worse.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 6 months ago:
Interesting, I’ll have to check that out, thanks!
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 6 months ago:
I recommend the book Going Infinite by Michael Lewis for an answer to this question, as it perplexed me as well.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 6 months ago:
I bought a dongle for $7 and use it at work, maybe twice a week?
- Comment on Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros 6 months ago:
I dual boot arch and windows 11 at home. In World of Warcraft arch is behind, and I haven’t figured out what the problem is. Something just feels off with it. With any luck they’ll continue to improve compatibility. (likely Nvidia driver diff)
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 6 months ago:
Google does, not sure what’s up with apple.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 6 months ago:
The 30% covers storage, distribution, discovery, and probably more. If you had to implement that yourself you’d wind up with a shittier version for probably more money.