jonathan
@jonathan@lemmy.zip
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 23 hours ago:
Mate, that’s from 2022. I’ve scanned through it and it seems completely unhelpful.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It sounds like this was his personal email account.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Maybe this Lemmy interface is confusing me, is there meant to be an article linked?
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 6 days ago:
I really don’t think this qualifies as enshittification. There’s no evidence they’ve taken funding or have any shareholders they need to appease. They also only increased prices and have not moved the paid/free boundaries in any way.
I think it’s much more likely this is a side project that simply doesn’t pay for itself well enough, and the alternative would be shutting it down. If people aren’t happy with that, it’s totally reasonable to just cancel.
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 1 week ago:
I can only take so much of Dan, but I like the rest of them. Grubb is great, Jan is a sweetheart.
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 1 week ago:
Bakalar joined GB East 10 years ago. Jan’s been at GB for 7+ years, but as a producer so you wouldn’t have seen his face as much until the big shift when Jeff, Brad, Vinny and Alex left. Grubb only joined in 2022.
- Comment on The UPERFECT UColor O2 is a brilliant portable monitor 2 weeks ago:
It says “Ultra-HD Display” in the marketing but it’s actually a QHD display.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Jellyfin has a BDFL and is an organisation with assets, so it’s not impossible. However, considering it was forked from Emby by GPL nerds in response to licensing issues, I think it’s very unlikely.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
They took VC funding (which is also bad), selling to private equity is very different (they strip mine businesses).
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
I’m in the same situation. I wouldn’t call Jellyfin bettrr, but I far prefer using something that’s not becoming progressively hostile to my use-case of self-hosted media.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know why you’d equate might-enshittify to already-enshittifying. Especially when Jellyfin isn’t VC-funded, the leading indicator for enshittification.
- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT energy costs are highly variable depending on context length. How have you factored that in?
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
For me there’s a big difference between funding someone anonymous (to me) who might be an asshole vs someone known to me who definitely is. I can tolerate the former, but not the latter.
- Comment on Delta Force devs say Desktop Linux support is 'not part of our agenda in the future' 3 weeks ago:
Chinese devs are even less interested in supporting Linux than Western ones.
- Comment on Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key 3 weeks ago:
Do people really have so little self-control that they can’t just not use a network connection if it exists?
Have you ever met any people?
- Comment on Ahoy: 2000. 3 weeks ago:
The video’s soundtrack of covers of 2000s music is masterful 👏
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Launch Trailer 3 weeks ago:
opencritic.com/game/…/clair-obscur-expedition-33
It’s reviewing very well.
- Comment on Online trolls take over Hope Florida virtual board meeting with slurs, hate symbols, and adult images 4 weeks ago:
Florida in particular.
- Comment on Top Donald Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chinese communications tech 4 weeks ago:
He also accused the European Commission of “protectionism” and an “anti-American” attitude.
I wonder where this anti-american attitude is coming from? 🤔🤔🤔
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
According to the about page, half of the staff of 12 are in the C suite. Are these people for real?
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 5 weeks ago:
People who use that phrase lack any sense of irony or self awareness.
- Comment on Spain public broadcaster calls for 'debate' over Israel's Eurovision participation 5 weeks ago:
They won’t get nil points, they got shiploads of points last year.
- Comment on ‘Biological attack’ could be behind Europe’s latest foot-and-mouth outbreak 5 weeks ago:
Orban’s chief of staff is making these claims. A completely reliable source.
- Comment on Self-hosted blog options. 1 month ago:
I don’t actually care about Wordpress, my point was Joomla is a bad recommendation in this context (a WordPress refugee looking for different blog software). Joomla (and Drupal) is a bad recommendation when there are better and more focused tools available.
- Comment on Teardown Of A Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner 1 month ago:
Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great
Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?
- Comment on Self-hosted blog options. 1 month ago:
Wordpress.org homepage uses the word “blog” (along with “publishing platform”), it does not use the term CMS. Joomla.org uses CMS and has zero mentions of “blog”.
Wordpress.com is even more stark, mentioning the word “blog” 33 times. Joomla.com again, zero mentions of it.
- Comment on Self-hosted blog options. 1 month ago:
Joomla is a CMS, I wouldn’t recommend it in this context.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 1 month ago:
Given the vitriol against Ubisoft (I’m not commenting on how justified it is), obviously they need to do something to counter it. The anti-woke crowd are an incredibly noisy minority.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 1 month ago:
I don’t do it, but if I did, I would consider apologetically offering the machine translation inline with my post. Why put the burden on them to do it if you want it to be read?