TunaLobster
@TunaLobster@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
Even heavy gamers are getting a much better experience on Linux these days (yay Proton!). There are a couple of anti-cheat systems that are still trouble some, but honestly if the developers don’t want to to put in the much smaller amount of effort to make it work on Linux, I don’t want to give them my money.
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 4 months ago:
Check out FidoNet for another example of federation.
- Comment on A round of applause for Mike Drucker. 4 months ago:
clutches pearls They wouldn’t dare! faints
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 6 months ago:
There’s a classical station in Dallas that calls their programming music with context. And they’re right! When there’s a good DJ in the booth you will end up learning something about the music being played.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 6 months ago:
Internet archive, and a chunk of r/datahoarders, is built for that purpose. Just as people have saved old paintings (aka media) it’s also good for us to save significant pieces of our current culture. Old VHS tapes and CDs are already disappearing. Sometimes finding something is just a little bit more difficult and it’s only going to get worse.
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 6 months ago:
Data density in UX has been downhill since Microsoft Office added the ribbon in 2007.
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 6 months ago:
Running all of the web services at scale takes a chunk of money. Even Matrix has a paid tier to cover the costs of running the servers for the paying customers. The free tier performs as expected for being free and not ad supported. It’s not extra skimming if I end up with fewer annoying things in my face and some neat tricks to use when communicating with my friends.
Giving up those rights for anything your input into a commercial Internet service is fairly standard. All that AI data came from somewhere. Not saying it’s a good thing, just that it’s not atypical.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 7 months ago:
DoJ is currently in a lawsuit against Google for search monopoly. Been going on for a while now.