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- Comment on SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform 1 month ago:
We were using Skype… Dark days.
- Comment on Chinstrap penguin 1 month ago:
These guys use PWM - penguin wakefulness modulation
- Comment on Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes 1 month ago:
How else do you get multi device sync?
My current solution is to use syncthing to handle syncing the files, but I have to debug a permissions error that pops up.
- Comment on Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this? 2 months ago:
I was going to say, there were definitely horny games but you wouldn’t talk about them in the open.
Honestly genshin and honkai aren’t even that bad. You want a bad one, look at nikke. Ass and titties jiggle physics: the game.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
And still refuse to address the core issue, which is the lack of moderation and policing of content creating the essential need for adblockers in the first place.
You are voluntarily consuming content that the content creators agreed to have the ads for.
Why won’t they think of the content creators?
For the upteenth time, they probably are thinking of them because the content creators agreed to have them as a revenue stream.
You’re acting like content creators are completely removed from this. guess who pays them? generally speaking, not you. It’s the big bad ad companies. Why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN AGREEMENT.
Especially in a world where far better alternatives (like merch and patreon type sites) exists to give them money, directly, without having to deal with advertising hellscapes.
Great! Consume your content from those places! I’m in the patreons for a few podcasts myself for the ad-free versions.
Just stop playing the victim when you see ads that the creators for the content you’re voluntarily consuming benefit financially from because they agreed to be there.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
You’re missing my point - the creators of the content you voluntarily consume have an agreement with advertising companies, under which they get financial compensation when people view the ads.
Therefore, when you use an ad blocker, you are depriving them of that expected financial compensation.
This is why it can be comparable to piracy. You are voluntarily consuming content while depriving the content creators of an intended revenue stream.
Do you have any criticism against that line of reasoning, or are you just going to try and criticize me instead?
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Do you agree that “What the advertising companies have done” was in agreement with the providers of the content you’re consuming?
Meaning, the providers of the content you’re consuming intended for the advertising to be a revenue stream?
Meaning it’s not “the big bad advertisers” - it’s really the providers of the content you’re voluntarily consuming who you’re trying to frame as the bad guys?
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
You…really don’t have to.
Again, I’m all for ad blockers, I use Firefox, I’ve ran my own pihole instance, etc.
I’m just going to be frank, you’re being a little melodramatic. Do you just get vaporized when you use someone else’s computer and an ad blocker isn’t installed? Likely not.
Ironically, by framing what is just a quality of life thing as a mandatory reaction to content providers actions, it sounds like you’re the one trying to shift blame onto them. Your entire argument has very strong “LOOK AT WHAT YOU MADE ME DO” energy.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
To tack onto your list, ad blocking also deprives a source from an intended revenue stream associated with the content, which is probably why it’s being compared to piracy.
I’m all on board with ad blockers, let’s just at least acknowledge the economic reality surrounding their use.
- Comment on Which anime do you enjoy with a mostly adult cast of characters? 2 months ago:
A great one!
If heists are your thing, definitely give the first arc a watch. It’s a handful of episodes for a complete standalone storyline.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
I also made the 16% error lol, math is hard.
Yeah I realized the difference is unpacking the clickbait as opposed to providing a verifiable claim.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
Ah that’s fair, lol.
I realized we’re talking about two different things, you’re saying that the post unpacks the clickbait, and I’m saying that there’s no documentation of price increases, which tbf isn’t OPs main point anyways.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
Just to be clear, by “read the post” do you mean go through all the comments of the mega thread OP shared? That seems unreasonable as opposed to “OP could’ve been clearer”.
Is there a more summarized version then “all the reddit comments on a mega thread” anywhere?
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
Ah, that would’ve been much better for OP to include as an example…
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
Oh.
I don’t think I care enough about drama in a niche game to do a deep dive on all of the reddit comments to learn about something…
It would be helpful if you or OP could provide links, or at least quote things. Most passerbys simply have better things to do than to find better context of what OP is saying about a game from 20 years ago.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
I feel like I’m missing something completely - maybe I do need to learn how to read. The only thing I’m seeing on the jagex page is new prices for a handful of currencies, SEK is not one of them.
There’s no mention of past prices at all?
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
So OP wrote a misleading description when saying the increase was from $12 to $14?
I don’t play RuneScape and I’m just going off of their description, which is inconsistent and the derogatory “just read lol” has so far shown to be wrong.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
Wait hold on, how does an across the board increase from $12 USD to $14 USD result in 50% increase in price?
- Comment on Go already 2 months ago:
I’ve had the same fascination!
A video I really enjoyed was a simplified experiment where they had some cars drive around in a closed loop - a single lane circle.
Traffic jams still inevitably somehow popped up, suggesting that we’re simply bad drivers haha. Higher level autonomous cars cannot come fast enough.
- Comment on The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness 2 months ago:
The only way I’ve made used tires work is to put in a lot more leg work - pick a part salvage lots would sell them for like $20-25 ea in the past, and you can pick some good ones with good tread.
- Comment on What if? 3 months ago:
Smart people who have probably won’t shut up about one of the following topics:
- Linux
- Anti corpo
- Ads on websites
None of these are bad or unpopular things, mind you.
It’s just a sign of someone shifted a liiiittle more extremist.
They’ll probably nag at you to leave reddit to join their weird website called Lemmy. Maybe insist you use their to a Plex server that only works 2/3 of the time.
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- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Hello hello! Welcome!
- Comment on Stages of grief 3 months ago:
This is in Las Vegas, of anyone needed further contact
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Onlyfans creators will eventually market meat of themselves 4 months ago:
If you had legal counsel they’d probably advise you to stop at that
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
Righto, I have changed my comment to reflect your input.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
Society in general understands it the way you do, the term is just different here on Lemmy lol.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 4 months ago:
This is my favorite visualization of how obscenely wealthy the mega rich are.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 4 months ago:
So you’re saying I can get there…
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
I guess my clothes look like shit, or I dress like a toddler.
The great thing about being an adult is I don’t have to give a fuck what others think about me.