I just installed Linux Mint for the first time. As a life long Windows user it’s more intuitive than Windows 11, the install and setup was easier than I’ve ever had doing a fresh install off windows, and I was able to connect to my media tower (still running Windows 10) faster and with less hassle than using a Windows machine.

The only thing that was more difficult was having to look up where to find the setting in Steam for “please provide me Linux versions of games that don’t officially support it.”

It’s not a homage, it’s just the exact same joke.

You are most likely correct, but I have little to no reason to be an apologetic to the duopoly,legacy media, or the owner class.

“I didn’t watch the interview but I am certain that it was conducted improperly.
Let me try to shame you all for an interview I didn’t watch but I know it was wrong because I heard it’s negative towards someone Donald Trump adjacent.”

It’s more of a “This is all we had” than it is “people used to have more patience”. Looks at all the MMOs that are non-stop digital chores that people have the patience for.

I would be surprised if many younger people in this era would have the patience to make it to the bottom row of this graphic.

That’s not a patience issue, that’s a design issue that has been eliminated in modern games.

There’s no reason to delay progress by making players repeatedly play through several trivial fights before getting back to where they are having a challenge. It was done in the NES era because they were operating under the philosophy that “the longer it takes to beat the game = the more hours of gameplay in it.” It didn’t matter if most of those gameplay hours were trivial digital chores like stomping Glass Joe yet again.

I get the analogy you’re trying to make, but maybe want to switch to something else.

Like any other vaccine?

Had ChatGPT actually promised its ability beyond “hey, isn’t this neat?”

And giving users inaccurate results isn’t going to hurt profits?

Yes, my comment wasn’t about online casinos but about the people who think they have a right to tell others how to live their lives.

Who’s “they the people”? I don’t know much about the gambling industry the internet but if it’s anything like any other industry place then it’s not a centralized monolith but many independent business people.

This reminds me: I need to change my default search engine.

Tomorrow he’s going to complain about being “cancelled” and how he “can’t say things anymore” while talking about the event where he was invited to speak in front of a college full of students.

You can say whatever you want, people don’t have to listen.

This is the second, and said next would be jail time.

Didn’t they say that after the first as well?

Satire is dead.

I have taught my cat that “Scootch” means “you have about 5 seconds to move on your own or I’m going to move you.” It has been very effective.

Do you realize how low quality your stuff would be?

YouTube makes $30 billion a year. They’ll be fine.

Then people would bitch that they can’t get the high quality version for free

Reducing the max resolution for people who aren’t on YouTube Red will come next once they stop focusing on AdBlockers.

“Service quality will continue to decrease until profits improve!”

Same way I used to pay for YouTube and currently pay for Podcasts: A small number of ads, at a designated spot, that I can skip through if I don’t want to watch.

It would be trivial for youtube to stop adblockers by making the ads indistinguishable from the rest of the stream: Coming from the same source and behaving like the rest of the video (your controls don’t get locked). But that doesn’t grow their every increasing hoard of wealth fast enough. The product must be made worse for profits to grow more, and according to you I should be thanking them for decreasing the quality of their product for me. $30 billion is not enough! The company demands infinite growth in a closed system! (Or as biologists call it: cancer)

Yup.

YouTube could easily avoid AdBlockers by simply having ad part of the video itself. Not pulling it from a different server, not hijacking your video player to prevent user controls, just part of the video like any other part of the video and AdBlockers would not be able to detect it. They’re not going to do that though, because then users won’t be forced to watch an ad they have no interest in.

They are still using it and costing YouTube money in aggregate

The poor company only making $31.5 Billion a year has to eat the streaming cost for someone using as ad blocker? Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the billionaires?!

But it’s quite horrifying to see people around the world having been taught into thinking that everything should be “free”

Maybe the businesses shouldn’t have created the expectation that everything was “free” then.

YouTube used to be 1 skippable ad at the start of the video. Now it’s multiple unskippable ads throughout the video. If the 1 skippable ad wasn’t a viable business model then they shouldn’t have been pretending it was and then changing things later once people have gotten used to the “free” system.

That’s exactly what people are doing.