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Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to news in Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says

Apparently depending on your brand of vegan, some sugar doesn’t make the cut. I don’t know the ins and outs I literally just googled it.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to news in Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says

TIL Oreos are vegan.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to technology in Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

Great point. I greatly* prefer the convenience of having my steam library.

On the flip side I pirated most of the old nes/SNES games that are harder to emulate well.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to technology in Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

F YouTube premium, I just use an ad blocker and NewPipe.

YouTube literally can’t make the company work without premium. 2022 revenue was 30 billion. YouTube has almost 3 billion users, and only 80 million premium subscribers.

At $12/month, 12 months/year, that’s almost 12 billion of their revenue coming from premium subs… Meaning that the other 2.92 billion people account for only 18 billion, around $6/user/year.

Their whole business model is to keep making the experience of YouTube shitter so that they can charge a premium fee for what should be the default version of the site.

I hope the whole business fails.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to technology in Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

I legitimately did, I stopped pirating except for old obscure stuff that I couldn’t find anywhere.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to technology in Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

“The cloud is just someone else’s computer.”

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to 3dprinting in Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

I had the same question, and found the answer in the thread.

It would be like if Steve from GN was detained during a fab visit by the Chinese government. That would be tech news regardless of whether or not they mentioned GN.

She’s been meaningful to the community both as an engineer/designer and as a public figure.

You really don’t deserve down votes for not knowing that, but I think a lot of people were just triggered by the way you asked the question.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to games in Starfield has gone gold. Preload tomorrow on Xbox/Microsoft Store, and on the 30th on Steam (Bethesda on Twitter)

Hallelujah!

If a few million more of us do this maybe the industry will improve…

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to nottheonion in Joe Biden’s DOJ Is Claiming “There Is No Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate”

While we’re at it let’s give everyone a right to world peace.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

They treat your subscription as a promise of continued business. You’re literally funding them trying to continue monetizing you and dominating your attention.

Fuck Spotify, fuck Netflix, fuck all of them.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to games in Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭

Ironically I’m less concerned with battle passes as long as they don’t sell power. The actual mtx itself doesn’t bother me, I’ve easily spent hundreds in path of exile. But I prefer to enjoy the game first, and then at some point decide that I want to support the devs, and then maybe I buy something.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to games in Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭

The shop had an un-clearable red alert notification any time they released a new skin for your character chat.

The only way to clear it was to open the shop and scroll to find the new item and click on it, opening the store page. Then when you backed out it would go away.

You had to do this for every single item that was released.

Maybe I’m neurotic or autistic or OCD or all three but those stupid red alerts trigger me and I need to clear them all to keep playing the game.

I don’t even want the fucking store in my game. Give me an option to turn it off for fuck’s sake.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to games in Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭

Not to X, but…

[Proceeds to X]

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to lemmyshitpost in gotdamn

Gentrification comes from the root word “Gentry” referring to the upper or ruling class.

It’s literally the upper class moving in, displacing the lower or middle class. The word is classist by definition.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, 10 months ago to games in Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭

…but I paid full price for D4 and still got a half baked game with an invasive in-game shop.