CharlesDarwin
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Alternative github frontends? 10 months ago:
Depending on what you have a taste for, I seem to remember seeing this in Emacs:
- Comment on makes sense 11 months ago:
I so hope this is fake, because this is so stupid, even by Space Karen standards.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O 1 year ago:
Did they back out of their police associations?
- Comment on We should rename Solar to Patriot Power to make it palatable to the right 1 year ago:
How about slapping something gun-related on it, like that Black Rifle company?
- Comment on FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai 1 year ago:
Remember that absolutely fucking stupid ad Ajit made about using the net? Awful.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
Yes, this is a trend I’ve been commenting on for…well it seems like a very long time.
It’s clearly enshittification in nearly every single case; the more clueless johnny-come-lately tech-trendsters want to label me as just being old-fashioned or something when I bring it up. Trying to explain to them what is going on is usually a pointless exercise, as they have been steeped in a new==better mindset that is nearly ironclad and since they didn’t use reason to get themselves into that position, but instead, emotion, trying to reason them out of it is not going to happen…
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
Call it what is is: GREEDFLATION.
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
What is ironic about this is that Bezos could probably make all of their video streaming free and have no ads and still be making gobs of money. Their AWS ecosystem is practically a license to print money. Oh and that little store he runs on the side, too…
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
I’d say we crossed the Rubicon on this front decades ago, when in-person, at the theater, movies started showing actual ads and not just trailers before the movie you just paid for (and it was at the same price, of course).
I remember the first time I experienced this in a theater. My GF was like “…the hell?” and people were fucking booing the ads. But it didn’t matter enough - the ads are still here.
And yeah, it still annoys me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Well, people like Newt and Rush have been at it a long time, so we probably don’t need that much help.
- Comment on This should be illegal 1 year ago:
This really sucks when you have to explain this kind of thing to your kids…
- Comment on BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them 1 year ago:
? I was not taking issue with leases, just commenting on the notion of a cost over and above a lease/car payment.
- Comment on BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them 1 year ago:
I just wonder how much of a market there is in fixing these issues for consumers. As in, giving people FULL ownership of their own cars…and to hell with ridiculous corporate “laws” like the DMCA.
- Comment on BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them 1 year ago:
I hate everything about the idea of paying a subscription for a…{checks notes}…car. It’s already bad enough when people are paying monthly for car payment or lease payment, now they get hit with a subscription for software?
I hate this timeline.
- Comment on BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them 1 year ago:
I always think of Ben Stein’s comment in that Frontline episode on the Secret History of the Credit Card - people that pay off their credit cards every month and pay no interest are called “deadbeats”. Around the 11m 30s mark…as it goes for credit cards, it goes for so very many other things. If you can afford an upfront hit or what have you, you pay less than people that are in a worse financial situation.
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 1 year ago:
That’s the best pronunciation, IMHO.
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 1 year ago:
I’m assuming he could still be accruing wealth if he did that.
Assuming he made at least 5% or so per year on investment income, that would be 2 billion, and if you assume a 20% tax rate on that, it would be 1.6 billion, still more than 365 million it would take to give away one million every day.
And so if he could live on less than ~1.2 billion per year, he’d still be gaining wealth…
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 1 year ago:
To see him explain it on Xitter or with a cartoon meme or whatever, he was in the “center”, and the radical left was so extreme that they brought the Overton window to the left and ruined his day, and were super mean to him, too, I guess. In other words, look at what you made him do, all normal Americans!
Or something. I guess the super-mean liberals also stole his hair, too.
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 1 year ago:
Imagine having so much wealth that he can walk away from his utter failure at Xitter and remain completely unaffected. For him, this is like some side-hustle vanity project a bored trophy wife runs.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
I don’t know of any other browser that has the temporary container notion that FF has.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
I never really understood the appeal all that much to begin with. I mostly stuck with FF.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
Time to move most of my browsing to FF. It’s already somewhere around 80% FF.
- Comment on Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" 1 year ago:
I have not read it yet, but do they have any countermeasures people can take?
- Comment on Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? 1 year ago:
Never stopped using it.
- Comment on The mist Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke 1 year ago:
What about you’ins?