Isn't it funny, when you visit a relative or friend and see their TV and web browser experience is full of ads and shit, while at home you see no ads and sometimes forget they even exist? I've noticed this many times.

Discovering the next track button on my steering wheel does a +30sec instead of skip track was a game changer lol

Damn, 2016 PC's gotta be tough. My current one is from 2023 and replaced one from 2017. It would still be good for non gaming things though.

80-20 rule still holds true, huh?

What I believe is in freedom of the internet. As in everyone should be able to access it and no one should be able to police what is on it. Complete free flow of information. Reddit should exist in the state that it does and lemmy should be there to counter balance it and no nation state should be able to say "no, we only allow one of these". This doesn't undermine any existing legal frameworks mind you. For example: distribution of underage pornography is still a crime almost everywhere and those who operate such sites are fair game for prosecution.

I get this may be too radical of an idea for some, but I truly believe education is the key to information literacy, not censorship.

I think the better question is will they be able to buy them all. Buying implies the other party is willing to sell.

Its true that this information will be harder to access if not indexed properly, but word of mouth is a good backup for that. I didn't find lemmy from google, someone (non corporate entity) posted a link to it somewhere. Now, that 'somewhere' may be corporate controlled and ban certain links but I'd argue that will just split the internet into two (a corporate side and "free" side) with little cooperation between them and I don't think anyone will be able to keep people from either side - as long as the internet remains neutral.

I think its just too hard to completely control information unless you are a nation state (and even then).

I think its the same problem with the press on TV and print form. Rich individuals can buy up all press outlets and control the narrative. Its hard (and restrictive) to broadcast on TV and print. On the internet, at least the freedom to publish and access information has a low barrier to entry. A rich individual may buy one lemmy instance, can they buy them all? Can they buy its successor? The lower barrier and less restrictive nature of the internet (or how it should be) is too fast moving for them to compete imo. All the states need to do is educate people on how to consume media correctly.

So I don't just wake up as Kane, but as him as we're landing on Stroggos and have to go through that whole ordeal haha. Kinda fucked then. I also wonder how I'll be able to find love looking like that.

Quake 4, so I'm Corporal Matthew Kane. Hopefully, post stroggification? Half human, half machine.

Very ascetic of you.

They throw buzzwords at venture capitalists in hopes of one day selling out.

Valve gives you access to a game and tells you not to spew your mouth off. A gentleman's agreement if you will.

You spew your mouth off and valve takes access away.

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This is a non-issue of you ask me. A person, who happens to be a writer, got access to the game through a steam friend and was asked not to talk about it but thought they could just not agree to a warning and write about it anyway? I got access too and i didnt write about the game. I get to go back and play it today, they cant.

In case anyone was wondering: they're there in case you change your mind later on and want to transition. God left them there as a backup.

I'm a tech guy. I dont mind the occasional redistribution of wealth from corporations. I can even appreciate exploits found in the wild like this or doing hacking when it doesn't hurt people.

What this signals, though, is that you are cheap. I side with the girl on this. It's a date. Pay for the meal and show her you can be normal first.

But I was told America is the land of the free. Have I been misinformed?

I feel like men do have it tough and when men start talking about it, they get shutdown and told to be a man. Boys dont cry afterall. So some men may feel its unfair when women speak up and are heard. So they want to make it about them. In the comic, just as the men are dismissive of woman problems, she is dismissive of mens problems. Instead of attacking an unfair weath class system, we bicker about shupid shit like men vs women. Its not race, gender or sexuality we should be discussing. Its social, weath classes.

Hot take: none. Let information flow free. Take it with the good and the bad. Don't lock yourself in an echo chamber.

If it comes to Lemmy, I quit. I'll go touch grass all day, I don't mind.

Computer natives are millennials. In due time, millennials will be what cobol programmers are in the coding world.
"On you want your recycle bin emptied? Yeah, thats gonna cost you."

Biggest retail month is December. You want to piss off the corporations? Cancel the presents part of Christmas. Tell your kids its because of Trump. You're gonna raise them right, you're gonna hurt the corporations, your pockets will be heavier, you will feel bliss because you've let go of the materialistic mindset. Not gonna happen but its sweet to dream.