When you don't check Lemmy for a few hours
zurohki
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"This is a business decision, not like all those other times people protested companies."
Their announcements about products that are way better than anything that actually exists with no solid plans to actually bring it to market is actually just another flavor of anti-EV FUD.
It's not the right time to buy an EV because our imaginary product is SO much better than any of those boring products, you should wait for it and keep buying our gas vehicles for now.
They're apparently planning on hoovering up everyone else's data while keeping theirs to themselves.
It's Meta, after all.
It turns out that banning porn makes advertisers happier, but you sell a lot less ads overall because you have nobody to advertise to.
This. For a lot of people Reddit isn't reddit.com, it's Apollo or Relay or Sync or Reddit Is Fun.
After the apps stop working, they won't be able to keep using the thing they're used to. They can't just go back, they'll have to switch to something different.
During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback.
Ah, the Activision Blizzard playbook.
If they did, Apple wouldn't adopt it and we'd be in exactly the same place as we are now.
Valve have said they aren't planning on a new Steam Deck until there's substantial technology improvements, so I wouldn't expect to see one for at least a couple of years yet.
Hannah Montana Linux
It was fully charged ten minutes ago, when the official Reddit app started opening.
they do understand that the APIcalypse will make their financial figures look great
That would require people to actually pay that API pricing. The apps closing down and AI people scraping the web site instead won't help them.
The more I hear about Windows these last few years, the more it feels like I got out just in time.
Gaming on Linux just keeps getting better, and doing anything on Windows just keeps getting worse.
Federation is glitchy right now, there's fixes coming in Lemmy 0.18.1
The bad news is that it may be a while before you can get back to devouring your favourite 60k hurt/comfort WIP.
This writer reads fanfics.
It's all mashed together into one broken link. The Mastodon post was https://universeodon.com/@reverendender/110684373666510819 and the actual article was https://www.insider.com/meta-threads-delete-account-instagram-2023-6
I don't think Twitter would rate limit the Google indexer, though.
It's probably the increased bounce rate, as people click Twitter links in the search results, get Twitter's login wall and click back to continue searching instead of creating an account.
This. Federation between instances is currently unreliable, there's a fix coming in Lemmy 0.18.1.
Well, he used to have a really good PR team, along with teams at Tesla and SpaceX to prevent him from breaking anything important.
Then he fired the PR team and took direct control of a company that didn't have a team of handlers.
We're now seeing the real Musk instead of Musk filtered through teams of competent people.
He wasn't optimistic on being able to make that work, last I heard.
He was initially talking about $3/month, but the issue is that most of the people willing to pay a monthly subscription for Reddit are the heaviest users. So instead of looking at the API usage for the average user, pricing needs to be aimed at the top 10% or 1% of users.
I'm still looking into it, gathering data etc. Unfortunately the average call rates when broken down to the top 2, 5, 10% etc of users is painting a much different picture. This is the cohort of users I would expect to possibly convert to a subscription model and the average rates for those users can be 3,4,5 even 600 hundred calls per day just by the shear amount they use the app. Some of the top users are well over 1000 per day and sometimes over 2000.
So I'm not sure yet. It would probably have to be a usage based subscription model if it was going to be anything and I'm not sure that's worth doing. I am still looking into it but unfortunately I don't think my earlier price points will work.
Your comment made me put down my phone and laugh out loud until someone came and checked that I was alright.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Last I heard, iThings weren't allowed to have other browsers, everything just had to be a different UI on top of Safari.
Intel's Linux support has always been pretty good. IIRC they even do open source video drivers, it's just that nobody cared about drivers for their IGPs and they didn't have real video cards until recently.
Most of hydrogen's problems are solvable - we can pack a car with hydrogen tanks, make hydrogen with electrolysis, build infrastructure, etc.
The big killer is price. Those hydrogen filling stations aren't $1000 each like home chargers or $50,000 each like DC fast chargers, they're something like 2 million dollars each. And you need them everywhere, there's no home filling to carry most of your usage.
The hydrogen you put in them? You have to pay for not just the electricity that makes it into your car's electric motor, but all the energy that was wasted along the way:
Nobody's looking to spend all that money on filling stations, and nobody's interested in paying 2-3x as much to fill their car.
This. If you're unhappy with the shitposts, block /c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and like magic, they're gone.
I think they were pro-hydrogen, and now they're using hydrogen as an excuse not to do battery EVs.
People who have heard of hydrogen cars but haven't looked at how inefficient and expensive they are still think that they're the future.
Naw, cheating at life is if your Daddy owns an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa, then you get smart people to do the thinking and PR for you.
There's a risk that you'll start to believe your own PR and try to do it yourself, though. I can't imagine that going well.
Why don't titles sponsored by one company also do extra work for free to support a different company's competing proprietary technology?
Gee, I wonder.
Article doesn't say a single word about NVIDIA titles that don't support FSR, either.
It's $2-3/month, but that's assuming all your existing users convert to paid subscriptions.
The issue devs had was that it was going to mostly be the heaviest users who would be willing to pay for a subscription. The people who spend many hours per day using the app and rack up $20/month in API charges.
Okay, but for now all the "RIP Reddit" posts give migrating Reddit users a feeling of, "So this is where the other people like me went."
Deterring very new accounts is still a useful thing to do.
A lot of posts on my country's COVID sub were removed by the bot with an account too new message, and it was only set to about one week. It doesn't really slow down new users but it cuts off a lot of spam bots.
It makes me smile a little when I get ads for restaurants in the suburb in a completely different city where my ISP has its registered business address.
Yeah, but Reddit makes pennies per user from showing them ads, so they're still losing money.
Rather than laughing all the way to the bank, it's more of a forced chuckle on the way to the dole office.
Plus, storage exists. No need to pay for API access to scrape if you already scraped to your own storage once already.
Me too.
I originally intended to do a pcie passthrough setup with a second video card and use a Windows VM for gaming, but then DXVK hit and it just wasn't necessary. The Windows games I cared about worked under Linux so I never got around to it.
Stadia really needed to be a monthly subscription model rather than asking people to buy games on Stadia.
Nobody wanted to buy in to a Google platform, but I might've signed up for a month and had a look.
I've had to add something like #infinite_scroll_content > div:nth-of-type(1):others() for a few sites in uBlock Origin because every site wants you to just scroll the site forever now and attaches a bunch of other random articles to the bottom of any page you open.
I also block a lot of sidebars, sticky title bars that follow you as you scroll, widgets prompting me to chat with a salesweasel and so, so many cookie notice bars because sites still think they're a get out of jail free card by EU law.
I've actually got quite a few Youtube lines in my filters file, because it's my computer and it still does what I want despite the best efforts of big tech companies:
www.youtube.com##.yt-formatted-string.style-scope.yt-simple-endpoint:has-text(YouTube Music):nth-ancestor(13)
www.youtube.com###video-title-link:has-text(Mix – ):nth-ancestor(7)
www.youtube.com###title-text:has-text(Shorts):nth-ancestor(7)
I'm running the Battle.net client on Linux with Wine instead of Deck and Proton, but I haven't had any problems recently.
It last updated around two weeks ago and the previous update was two weeks before that. I'm running version 2.22.0.14235 and there's no updates available.
There was an issue with some versions of Wine making Battle.net fail with a "This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform" message. Is that what you're hitting, or something else?
It's remarkable to me that Reddit could have let one of their PR drones write a post that essentially took seven paragraphs to say, "Sorry but we have to" and it probably would have mostly blown over.
But Huffman's ego took the wheel and he had to make it personal. Instead of just leaving, people are actively cheering for Reddit's downfall.