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- Comment on 11 hours ago:
Sometimes companies gradually reduce the usefulness of the free product to incentivize people to pay. They may do this.
- Glamour UK has perfect response to JK Rowling’s complaint about its trans coverwww.thepinknews.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 day ago:
I think legally this suggestion makes you a pirate, a thief, a terrorist and a mass murderer.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
The best possible scenario is that they’re just using it to entice people to pay for a premium subscription and will leave it that way. But the chances are that once they’ve pulled enough people in with the offer of free software, they’ll alter the terms of the deal.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
So they’re planning to hook people in with freebies then boil the frogs a little slower.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 days ago:
Github Copilot is somewhat useful for programming, but of course Microsoft have given a range of products all the same name for maximum confusion, as they do. The Copilot in Windows may be rubbish. I haven’t touched it once.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Affinity has been the best alternative to some of the key Adobe tools for a while now, and it was a one-off payment of about $200 for the whole suite, which was pretty good value. Now it’s “free” I’m just a bit worried. Sure, it’s not exactly a subscription but why would a company decide not to take that $200? Unless this is just another case of betting it all on AI.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
It seems reasonable for now: you can use all the tools except the AI stuff for free, so it’s still (I assume) as full-featured as the last Serif version of Affinity was. But we don’t know what Canva plans to do with it. Will the tools be hollowed out while more and more features go behind a paywall? I don’t entirely trust them.
- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 days ago:
Everyone expresses this frustration with Linux, but I’ve used it alongside Windows for years and it’s Windows that has caused me by far the most headaches. I think many people would be pleasantly surprised by pretty much any mainstream Linux distro.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 days ago:
Do you even have a general computing license, citizen?
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 days ago:
Or just sending them takedown requests that Google acts on by default.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 days ago:
We could see back in the 1980s, that corporations were becoming more powerful than governments. And that inversion of power has only continued to become more extreme since then.
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- Cambridge Students Union to hold referendum on breaking off from the NUS over Gazawww.thecanary.co ↗Submitted 3 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
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- Comment on A strange charger 5 days ago:
It should be the title of a Mel Brooks musical.
- Comment on A strange charger 5 days ago:
The exclamation mark makes it perfect.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 5 days ago:
despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
Not despite, because of.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 5 days ago:
I’ve allowed anyone to make “cameos” using my face. (You don’t have to do this: You can choose settings that make your likeness private, or open to just your friends — but I figured, why not?
Maybe because of this shit? A learning experience, I guess.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 6 days ago:
It doesn’t have to be extreme. It can be a call to end the genocidal apartheid oppression that has been Israel. But as I understand it he called for “death to the IDF”, and clarified it as a call for an end to the murderous gang of was criminals that is perpetrating Israel’s genocide. There’s nothing extreme about this. It’s about protecting people from the most extreme brutality.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 6 days ago:
Clearly British Airways just wants to establish its image as a pro-genocide corporation which endorses shooting, bombing and starving innocent people.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 6 days ago:
But these musicians objected to a genocide, which obviously makes them terrorists.
- Comment on Experts urge Government to ban supermarket bacon after link to 50,000 cancer cases 1 week ago:
And enjoy paying for their healthcare. It’s good value for the country to prevent people doing entirely optional things that will burden the health service in the long run.
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 17 comments
- Comment on 2,100 arrested for carrying Palestine Action signs 1 week ago:
I suspect Starmer is actually a potato wearing a Mr. Potato Head suit.
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- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 1 week ago:
CEO of a company that is actively making it harder for people to afford housing.