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- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
Yah, I remember paying like $10-15 mid 1990s for a single CD album. And we liked it! Easily spent a few hundred bucks a year on music.
I swear if these stupid music labels just switched to 5 cents a song, no DRM, own it forever, global distribution, bill you once a month to manage transaction fees – they’d make more money than god.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
Indeed! Introducing kids to this through the example of Plex is really good.
First they “get it” because Plex works like the streaming services they’re used to and they think “oh neat mom can do that too.”
Then they like it more because I show them how its streaming we can control ourselves - streaming home movies and pics really impresses this upon them.
And then they see that there’s no magic to where the content comes from – it’s a digital file on Plex just as it is on Netflix.
Voila. Free thinkers for life.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
shady websites
There are no innocents here. There’ s a case to be made that nothing is more shady for consumers than the mass data harvesting, profiling, brokering and content shaping that flows from using Facebook, Twitter, Amazon or TikTok
shittiest possible quality
You’re doing it wrong
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
In the background as the deal gets worse and there is no alternative offering a good deal with a good consumer experience then piracy rises. It always does. Companies will always complain piracy hurts them and the artists but all they have to do is be more reasonable.
100% this
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
Yah, and before that SoundJam, an indy app which Apple bought and re-skinned into iTunes.
At the time it was all wonderful and intuitive. Drag and drop everything, beautifully curated collections, simple and dependable, and sitting right there on your hard drive / iPod so you always had everything.
Now it’s all a sewer of bullshit, annoying and alienating to use, it makes music a miserable experience. They wonder why people don’t want to pay for it. And use the law to beat us over the head until we submit to our own misery.
We really gotta update consumer laws for the digital age so there’s a reasonable balance between corporations and consumers again.
- Submitted 9 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 347 comments
- Comment on AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card 9 months ago:
$US330 for the top 8700G CPU with12 RDNA 3 compute units (compare to 32 RDNA 3 CUs in the Radeon RX7600). And it only draws 150W under load.
Sure, for $100-200 more you could combine a cheaper CPU and better GPU. But I see the 8700G being an awesome option for gamers on a budget, or parents wanting to build younger kids their first cheap-but-effective PC.
I also see the 8700G as being REALLY nice for building small form factor mini-ITX Home Theatre PCs that run silent and don’t need a separate GPU. I’m exactly in this boat right now and the 8700G makes it an easy build now.