Because most people are not anywhere near as computer literate as much of Lemmy would have you believe.

You know that scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Donald and Daffy Duck are both playing the same song on individual pianos while trying to kill each other? Yeah.

Not that I remember.

She meant she could figure it out just playing around with it, not reading a manual or asking around. I told her she’d have to read a manual.

My daughter told me the other day, “I bet I could figure out a Commodore 64 if I had one.”

Good luck figuring out LOAD “*”,8,1 by yourself, kid.

FUUUUUUCK DAVID ZASLAV!

He is not only hiding things people enjoy watching and playing, he is hiding history.

Imagine how much less we would know about Elizabethan England if all of Shakespeare’s plays were lost to all time.

There was a decent 5 year span in my life where the only time I ever pirated was to see British TV shows I wouldn’t be able to watch in the U.S. And if I could have paid the British TV license fee to see those, I would have paid it too. Because that would have been a total of two streaming services.

Even now that we’re down to one income we can afford two streaming services- one for video and one for music. But we sure as fuck can’t afford the dozen streaming services you need to have if you expect to watch all the programming people rave about as amazing.

I can’t afford Max and Disney+ and AppleTV+. If I want to find out why The Last of Us is so good and why The Mandalorian was a terrific show and how funny Ted Lasso is, and have the temerity to expect no ads when I’m already paying to watch, that alone would cost me almost $40 a month. Add Netflix and Amazon to that and it’s another $30+.

That is what I was paying for cable except with far less programming. On-demand and no ads are definitely advantages, but pay the same amount for a fraction of the programming advantages? Not for me.

In the 90s, my cable company kept adding new channels but the price didn’t keep shooting up.

It really is surprising how bad Netflix’s quality is. I can notice it on my TV and it’s only 1080p.

I would like to see some evidence that the competition resulted in Netflix losing a lot of subscribers, and thus money, rather than not hitting their predicted revenue targets. Because I would bet it’s the latter and not the former. I don’t know of too many people who said, “well, I had Netflix, but Disney is doing streaming video now so I won’t be watching Bake-Off anymore.” They just ended up getting Netflix and Disney+.

For a while anyway. Now people are dropping these services due to the price hikes. Unless you downgraded your Netflix service when they added lower tiers with fewer options and ads, to maintain the basic Netflix service you had in 2016, you’re paying an additional $5 a month today.

Netflix and all the other streaming services are built upon the insane idea that there are an infinite number of new customers that will continue to sign up regularly. Some of them don’t even think you need all that much programming to draw them. Paramount+ has a fraction of the original programming of Netflix, Peacock, Apple, Amazon, etc. but still costs $10 a month and will most assuredly continue to raise its prices based on the idea that there are either an infinite number of Star Trek fans or they will have to raise their prices.

That doesn’t really sound like a premium.

They even often have them streaming for free. All of my wife’s audiobooks are free streamed via the library and she listens to them every day.

I don’t agree that it is ‘morally correct’ to pay $20 for a shitty movie that cost over $100 million to make when that money could have gone to fund 5 much smaller, much better movies just so the studio could shovel money into their Scrooge McDuck moneybin with yet another multimedia tie-in.

Maybe people would pirate less if you let them keep what they pay for.

8.00.8.5

Naughty Bobby!

https://audiobookbay.is/

They co-authored it.

That’s why Jesus invented VPNs.

Which would matter if that was AT&T’s only source of revenue. Now tell me how you can change ISPs from AT&T easily. Especially in a smaller city or town.

Okay? And?

AT&T does a lot more than provide phone service.

That hasn’t seemed to be their overall strategy considering how shitty their service is.

I’m sure AT&T care about that due to their humanitarian nature.

Do you think their profits will be dented by a $60 million loss?

Would you put a tomato in a fruit salad?

AT&T made 120.74 billion in 2022. They can afford a lot of bad code.

Looks like AMD and Qualcomm both support it. I’m not seeing Intel. Hopefully they don’t.

“Kareem! Kareem Abdul!” “Jabbar!”

You know what? I liked Ishtar.

There. I said it. I said it and I’m glad.

And how does that make you feel?

Why are you asking me about who I talk to?

Have you ever talked to an LLM that asked you pointed questions?

I’m trying to imagine a Barbie watch party and I’m having trouble.

I agree and I don’t expect my friends to be perfect, but trust me, this guy is something else. I was going on vacation to Niagara Falls and he told me something like “I was there when I was 13 in a trench coat and a video camera filming all the people with turbans. For a long time, I thought that was stupid, but now I realize it was a good idea.”

But it doesn’t explain double keyboard hacking.

I have a friend who would totally get this joke… and then lecture me about how we’re all living in fear and COVID isn’t bad and no one should wear a mask and you’re infringing on his rights to wear a mask around him and other nonsense.

Honestly, if we hadn’t been through a lot of shit together in our teens and twenties, I wouldn’t be friends with him. We have a deep bond, but he’s a fucking moron.

They didn’t last where I live, but my mother lives in a town about an hour away (Bloomington, Indiana) which still has them, and they appear to be popular.

Surprisingly, I can’t find that made as an actual usable font. I would have thought someone in font design would jump at the chance just for the fun of it.