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- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Youtube ads don’t just pay creators though, they also pay for video hosting, discovery, and streaming, which aren’t cheap. A lemmy for video streaming would be great, but there’s a reason it hasn’t really happened yet, you’d need a much larger portion of viewers to pay than what it takes lemmy to run, and you’d need a bigger community of developers to build it, which is why most youtube alternatives are strictly paid products. None of that is criticism of the idea, I think it would be great if we could wrench away some of youtube’s monopoly, but at the same time we need to understand why it’s a challenging concept
- Comment on Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads 1 year ago:
The base iPhone 15 is still a “premium” phone, it costs 2x as much as Google’s A series phones, and google never had a problem putting USB 3 on those. Maybe most people won’t do this, but it’s obviously important enough that they didn’t do the same on the pro version. It’s so weird to see people defending a company purposely gimping their phones just to give them upsells.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
Not yet, but lemmy should have user controls to block instances soon
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
Hopefully they next mandate that it has to be able to be taken apart with a screwdriver
It does include that, mostly. It says that any tools that aren’t commonly available without proprietary rights or restrictions (i.e. screwdrivers) have to be provided by the manufacturers free of charge
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
You can with very basic root tools, but really that just solidifies your point. It’s an easy thing to do, but they’ve intentionally taken away the ability for no good reason
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
I’m not sure that #1 and #2 are options, I think Apple’s tools would still be considered “Specialized” or “proprietary” since they can’t have any proprietary rights or restrictions, so I don’t think that they can get away with selling them at a huge markup. I’m no lawyer, but to me that reads like they either need to give the tools away for free, or change the iPhone so it can be disassembled with regular screwdrivers. Given those choices, I’m thinking #2 sounds a lot more likely unless they can weasel out of some loophole
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
Yeah, that’s why I specified US, there are plenty of places where it’s more of a gradiant, or where left and right are just two of many options. although unfortunately fptp is the norm in most of the world. The US is unusually polarized even among fptp countries, but countries that have better voting systems that allow for more than two parties are the exception, not the norm.
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
This. There an infinite number of ideologies that you could have, but our first past the post voting system (in the US) only allows for two candidates, so an infinite spectrum gets funneled into two camps.
- Comment on Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp? 1 year ago:
Unfortunately, iMessage’s proprietary format is far more common than RCS in the US, so it’s unlikely anything is going to change without government action
- Comment on Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi... 1 year ago:
This. It is able to tap in to plugins and call functions though, which is what it really should be doing. For math, the Wolfram alpha plugin will always be more capable than chatGPT alone, so we should be benchmarking how often it can correctly reformat your query, call Wolfram alpha, and correctly format the result, not whether the statistical model behind chatGPT happens to use predict the right token
- Comment on Boycott In-N-Out. 1 year ago:
Nevada and Utah too. I think it’s mostly the western block of states