That's, uh...pretty ignorant of the fact that most of the people in the IT world are infinitely more aware of how damaging FB and most social media sites are than the average person. Come on.
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Wow. It’s like streaming services want to lose customers. Baffling.
I myself consume so much content on YouTube (hours of video essays and podcasts) - and the ads are so relentlessly aggressive - that paying an extremely minimal fee each month for the service is an absolute no-brainer.
How is this even first page HN material? It’s entirely a personal choice as to whether a certain streaming service is worth it to you or not.
Do I make a blog post that’s suddenly trending because I decided not to subscribe to Paramount+?
I still say if SEGA went DVD with the Dreamcast we'd have a totally different console scene, but I'm also a huge SEGA fangirl, so what can I say.
Which is total bullshit. If you hadn’t, or didn’t really have the means to; create such a hubbub on social media about this - your issue would never have been resolved.
I actually think it’s worse when companies do this, rather than fix the clear, underlying support problem.
Then I can only logically concede that you are either blind, or intentionally ignorant of the blindingly obvious correlation.
Whether it’s Disney and projects across the highway or something like skid row in a state with the largest collection of wealth in the country, it all boils down to the same ‘I’m comfortable and I don’t want to have to think about not being comfortable’ attitude that allows this country to have billionaires and do absolutely nothing to help these people.
Communism isn’t a perfect system, but fundamentally; it’s supposed to care about the individual in a way capitalism has shown it is fundamentally incapable of.
It seems we currently have no political system that seems to balance progress with the needs of the people - but this preposterous 1%-bullshit capitalist system is so destined to collapse that if it wasn’t for said 1% so desperately clinging onto it so they can maintain wealth and power, it would have long ago.
It’s only greed and selfishness that powers the current American political and economic system.
To say it’s ‘disturbing’ would be an extremely shameful understatement.
Orlando was very similar when I lived there - with Disney World literally on the other side of the highway from extremely derelict project housing. I would drive through I-437 and just shake my head in sadness.
It's an eerie reminder of how fragile life is and how little we collectively care about solving these problems above making money for our individual selves.
You probably have to spend more than $100 for that, though.
I agree with shadowgovt above, in that; yes - motion controls aren't meant to be used all the time, it absolutely gets exhausting.
But on the other hand, you're completely right as well - I'm also very impressed by VR exercise, and games can be a very effective tool for exercise, especially for a nerd like me who finds motivation hard.
Wow, that statement reeks of having so much privilege it’s like you forgot that this isn’t financially feasible for a lot of people, and that upgrading down the line allowed someone to afford a lower spec computer at the time.
Like - you do get not everyone’s wealthy af, yeah? And that companies intentionally bloat the cost of first party memory and stuff so that if you’re not insanely privileged; like I guess you are, then, no - it’s not even…it doesn’t even make sense.
All this does is steal from the poor to give to the rich.
Meta’s ‘metaverse’ isn’t doing well - you know, that thing they renamed themselves to focus on?
So…their reaction to that was to increase the price of an aging piece of hardware that is the main portal to the aforementioned new company focus.
And I’m struggling to have any sympathy for Sony, either - who has typically subsidized console costs; and is now joining the loony bin with Meta.
I have never - in my decades of being obsessed with consoles - seen a manufacturer increase the price of a console a year after launch.
Sony’s made a dumbass decision here - for sure - but it’s nothing compared to the facepalm that is Meta increasing the price of the Quest. Mind boggling.
Like - fuck. this. shit.
I will take - in a heartbeat - (we'd all better!) whatever slight decrease in performance and slightly larger design that comes from not being soldered in half a microsecond if it means I can actually upgrade the RAM later on after my purchase.
Not just because I want continued value out of my purchase - because honestly, that's not even getting started on the amount of eWaste that must be created from this selfish, harmful; wasteful pattern.
Think about all the MacBook Airs out there stuck with 4GB of RAM and practically useless 128GB SSD's that could be useful if Apple didn't intentionally make them useless.
We've certainly gone very far backward in terms of any computer hardware worth purchasing in the last ten years.
I really don't get the point, beyond greed - of this whole soldering garbage. No performance or size benefits can be worth not being able to continue to reap value from my investment a couple years down the road.
This not only creates seriously less waste, but also nurtures a healthy, positive attitude of valuing our hardware instead of seeing it as a throwaway, replaceable thing.
I truly hope environmental laws make it illegal at some point. The EU seems to be good with that stuff. The soldering issue accomplishes literally nothing beyond nurturing, continuing, and encouraging a selfish culture of waste that only gets worse the more and more accepted we allow it to become.
We've only got one planet. It's way - way - WAY - past time we started acting like it.
Ten years ago, the state of hardware was far more sustainable than it is now.
For. Fucking. Shame.
Still wondering what the purpose of PWA’s existing is.
Thank you - first for your contribution to the product; and secondly, thank you for opening up a window into the glass wall that is Apple.
I feel like this city is certainly tech-heavy enough that we could organize something nice!
Please let me know here if that’s something that potentially interests you.
I am a fan of in-person Internet forum meetups and have had some of my best social memories from them. :)
My girlfriend and I often snuggle up to one of these great films - have they not been available on streaming platforms outside of Canada?
I can’t imagine using a wireless display for gaming. It’s bad enough just for remote access via VNC.
Obviously I and the above commenter expect that if you are interested enough to purchase the device, you probably should’ve thought of that to start.
I can’t imagine, e.g. - going up to the cottage and bringing a console or handheld with me…
The idea of a vacation is to disconnect, no?
And since the idiots like KK wasting all the water are multi-millionaires or billionaires, of which there are a greater conglomeration of in California then there are in the rest of the states - increasing the price of the water based on more usage won’t change a thing.
Restricting the amount of water used by individuals in general is the only way I can see this working here. But the rich always figure out a way around everything. They always do.
Same issue with the private plane bullshit going on. These people are addicted to an unsustainable lifestyle that allows them to throw money at anyone trying to put restrictions their way.
And no; not a smartwatch that needs charging every day - or ever…just a timex that might need it’s battery replaced every year or two.
As far as reliable connectivity, dumbphones are way more rock solid than any smartphone could pretty much ever hope to be.