I’m glad this got press.
Such slowdowns tend to be good for the average person.
They’re bad for speculators, investors, shareholders – mostly rich people who are too moneyblind to see that endless growth is untenable. To those people, I say: fuck you.
This is key. The right vs left, culture wars, even, I suspect, focus on proxy wars – all of it is meant to distract the people from the fact they have been bought and sold by the rich.
Rich vs everyone else is the conflict to focus. Everything else is distraction. And, what do you know? We The People have a lot in common if we start talking about wealth disparity.
Remember when Kanye “went away” after pro-Hitler comments?
Let’s see if Musky goes all the way.
Edit: a ? mark
RIP to a good person.
Not a chance in hell.
It does highlight how out of touch those in the gerontocracy are, however.
Well, they will. Two things drive the trend, in my view:
Lack of informed opinions. If you don’t know that other options exist, you’ll buy whatever because you think it is the baseline.
Convenience. This one is a killer. People regularly give up a lot – even rights – in the name of convenience.
Between those two factors, it’s a hard sell for the average consumer to not support this kind of corpo garbage. A nihilistic view, maybe, but I think it’s an accurate one.
In a similar vein, it’s pretty easy to show someone that consoles have these needlessly expensive proprietary links, plus games which are very expensive for the same reason. But it is very hard to convince someone that the cool thing they saw on TV isn’t, in fact, “cool” because of the aforementioned reasons. And ultimately, people like having cool things, even if that coolness is subjective.
Historically, it’s been a push-pull between groups, but everyone has had a different future. Now that things are being consolidated wholesale – e.g. physical media going out the window because so many are happy to stream and never own anything – it is more necessary than ever to call out #1 and #2, since the market itself is changing for the worse.
I don’t fucking get it.
These are discussions that should be happening before there is a fucking election.
All these “freedom-loving” people who blindly vote for someone and give him carte blanche. That’s not freedom.
It is intentionally difficult, of course.
The real solution is not to buy the console.
The fact that consoles still get away with this inflated proprietary crap is shocking
I want to say it was about 2005 or 2006.
My first “broadband” was Hughes satellite internet, due to living in a rural location. It was hot garbage, but it was better than dialup.
The speeds were Ok (for me), but the data cap (applied daily) was draconian. I don’t recall the specific amount but it basically made it impossible to stream video in any capacity.
There was a 3-hour period from midnight to 3am every night where the cap didn’t count. That effectively became internet time because it was unusable otherwise.
I got cable in 2010.
There was never another outcome.
Capitalism breeds one thing, and it certainly isn’t innovation, and it most definitely isnt not-for-profit innovation.
Rich and black usually distills to black for these purposes
Opted for comfy chairs instead, since they fit the limited space better than a couch.
Oh yeah. I had completely forgotten about JD Vance. I don’t have a couch in my house so he’s usually out of context.
Indeed. Regulation is deeply unpopular these days. At least with the oligarchs.
It sucks because I’ve always liked Logitech hardware. Though I suppose you don’t need to run the software suite (or if you’re on Linux it isn’t an option anyway).
Such a weird thing to be excited about. Biden will get half the time to make appointments. This is the AstroTurf of good news.
Yes, that is by far the most appropriate. Considering that is the terminology that was used to demonize the possibility of public healthcare in the US.
As alarming as corporations being legally allowed to act as death squads?
And he still does not understand that free speech ≠ freedom from potential consequences based on exercising that speech.
Edit: but to be fair, I don’t know why anyone would expect a robber baron emerald mine nepo-baby from South Africa to understand free speech.