All good. I think we're thinking of this from different aspects anyway. I'm thinking a company just subscribes as part of their office subscription and Microsoft is doing the heavy lifting of the cost and hardware. I don't know how OpenAI makes money besides their little subscription.

(which you seem to do and keep on posting here)

I've only made the comment you're replying to. I'm not whoever you're thinking.

Considering you're a hobbyist and probably don't have marketing, it's too soon to say it's a flop. Many games like that pop off later once it gets seen.

Way bigger. You could have many thousands.

Yep, one shape is paid for, the other shape is not (I forget, circles or squares), and to actually see the non paying businesses you have to zoom way in now.

I'm always concerned about google maps because the alternatives suck, but google is making their services awful, one by one. I'm waiting for the day that google maps becomes terrible too. I do have openstreetmaps (using organic maps on android) and I fixed a few things about my local area there but it doesn't have some of the features I'd like and it doesn't seem like they have plans to add them.

Just as an example, business reviews. I can use yelp but it is nice that it's right there. Also, the user submitted things like speed traps, accidents, etc.

Yes. Since the mascot is an elephant, it's Toots instead of Tweets. To the other person's point, toots are fine for what I showed, anime type channels, but less legal things like piracy, onlyfans leaks, etc. wouldn't be great there, since it's not a private group of just the interested parties.

You keep mentioning cost, and in the grand scale of "there's no such thing as a free lunch" there's a large cost but for users, they're just paying for a license from Microsoft to have copilot in their visual studio software or in M365 apps, etc.

So for helping with development, it's really not that expensive for the users. Also, "they" make lots of ridiculous claims, and i don't know who said it, but no developers in 5 years is a wild claim that no one should've thought was real.

I think it's nerds. /s

I think a lot of the lemmy userbase are at least somewhat techy (also see the Linux communities), and a lot of techy people like Star Trek.

Unreal. It's not even incompetence, he really is just tanking the site on purpose.

You take weird showers my friend.

Starfield advertised something like "Bethesdas first new universe in 25+ years" (paraphrasing)

That is not a good thing.

That's ending relatively soon because of the EU though, so I guess it's fine.

It's the "not getting caught" part that's difficult.

He's out of line, but he's right.

So what happens to, for example, the HP reverb g2?

My app only has the plus currently. I think it's a dumb change. The type of change you make because you need to change something. Nobody that is competent enough to use a smart phone app would see any benefit from it being changed to a plus and as others have pointed out.. it's a music app, plus and minus are usually associated with volume.

Might be your carrier. T-Mobile had some app like that that I had to fight a few times to get rid of.

Do you truly think anyone desires that?

The way I use Twitter, I follow ~40 specific people. Half of them created accounts other places when Elon first started fucking around but they don't use any of them so if I want to keep following these people I'm stuck (and I do).

There's too many basic things locked behind perk points before you can even begin doing whatever it is. Like, I spent most of a day to grind to get to be able to buy and fly a bigger ship only to then not be able to put any extra crew on the ship because that is also a perk.

But that's the only benefit of premium (on YouTube itself). I guess there are still YouTube originals but that kind of died as far as I can tell.

I mean, it's literally in the name. "Hey, you know how some kids hate the crust and their parents cut it off? What if we sold it like that."

Normally pickup trucks and SUVs in the USA are considered "light trucks" which have easier safety and emissions standards.

I don't really know the ins and outs if it though, I just watch videos on the internet.

I only watch 2 channels from youtube that are on nebula and as far as I've seen they've taken out the ad reads. I'd be pretty annoyed with a channel if they still did the ad read on a paid site.

Kyle Hill. He's a science YouTuber and he has a series about nuclear energy that is very good.

... just buy audiophile speakers and use a dac and amp? what do you mean?

Unrelated service, but I use Walmart for their grocery delivery, which I pay for and I have a Walmart+ subscription. In the "my items" section, the section specifically for things I have already purchased before, they recently added sponsored items.

Yes, it's clearly marked but for fucks sake Walmart I'm trying to just get more of stuff I've bought before. You have pages and pages of sponsored stuff elsewhere, leave my items alone!

What we need is something like fediverse, but for online videos

That's Peertube right? I haven't used it.

R'amen

I think two can be fine, if just to cover weird situations you might find yourself in (cosigning with somebody, somebody dies and leaves it you, or I guess I don't really mind a "summer home"). I think beyond that though I agree.

Android "swipe" keyboards in general are almost all terrible right now. We had it, I would get the correct word most of the time and I could do it fast. Now, no matter which one I try using - Google, Samsung, Microsoft, that FOSS one - nearly every sentence i type has some word that it gets wrong.

Usually yes, but this person is saying theirs does not have a physical keyhole.

If you like the instance you're signed up with and agree with their rules/moderation, then as long as your instance and the instances you want to see are federated you really have no reason for signing up to other instances.

I've had one surgery in my teens. I was immediately knocked out, unconscious, no dreams that I can recall. When I woke up I was so groggy I couldn't even really move for a while, everything just felt heavy. I would just kind of look around with my eyes and then close them to try to get more sleep.

I bought affinity because I'm tired of subscriptions so... hopefully they don't do that too.

Luckily the admin really knows what he's doing.

I believe Google is "testing" it right now, so for some people it's been slowly escalating to where they were allowed 3 videos before it stopped them from watching anymore videos with the ad blocker enabled.

I got back into torrenting media and using plex because of all this nonsense. I'm not watching ads on a paid service and I'm not subscribing to 6 services at a time just because every company wants their own Network+ service. I'm also not going to pay more because you decided to add ads to an existing "tier".

Then I learned through lemmy about real-debrid and stremio/torrentio and decided to try that. Now I've got the equivalent to these services for much less cost and the only difference is before I press play on an episode or movie, I just choose the cached torrent. No ads, don't even need the space on a hard drive, good quality, and almost everything is immediately available.

It was the fuckin beans