Typically your first step in avoiding things like this is don’t be important. Your second is don’t record everything and share it. If you do have to share it, wait until long after you leave the place you recorded it.

VLC? Foobar2000? I liked winamp.

This is how you end up with a homelab, it just takes one managed switch or a blade server amd now youre on ebay everyday looking for deals and struggling to pay electric bills.

Guess I’ll just have to hang out with humans in the physical world.

I might have to drive over highwaymen, or dodge between 30 or 40 wild boar. I don’t need Asimov’s first law of robotics to confuse my car and make life or death decisions for me.

All the money spent on the US Military offering aid in places like Haiti, Nepal, and Philippines all came from the USAID bucket. Thw bottled water, fuel, shelters, food… all from that USAID line of accounting. I am very interested to know where the money is coming from to pay for aid in Venezuala, because it’s probably the same bucket for dumping bombs into Iran.

As someome in the military, the console used to be the perfect device to recieve new media while you were deployed somewhere with no internet. Video games, movies, and albums used to all come on dicscs a console could read and play on the spot. The internet has created an environment where companies no longer ship a finished product on the disc, and relying on a world where all consumers have high speed internet. It has also pushed individuals that wont have internet for months at a time towards piracy. This also hurts research scientists / students out in places with poor internet service. I fully support companies that send their finished product out on some sort of physical medium that can operate as intended without a software update over the internet. Anything else is just a license key and should be clearly marked as such.

I figured social media was already doing that further left of an event by shadow banning posters that could create communities and foster protests. It is far cheaper to keep people feeling helpless and disconnected from other disenfranchised people.

The second to last time i bought DLC at launch was the assassins creed game in colonial america, which was a waste of money. Then Starfield came out and you could play it a weekend early if you bought DLC, another scam. It is so much more fun to buy an indy game in alpha and get an update every few months from someone isnt a whore for share holders.

Can’t we just go back to mumble or ventrilo?

Please Gabe sell a special edition orange one for half life 3.

Straight to the work bench, remove the back, physically remove the wifi adapter, replace back of TV. Yay, i am ready for xbox.

Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on “the cloud” anyways.

I bought a digital movie from Amazon prime in 2015. It fell off and they didnt give me a refund. The music I got from a burnt CD in 2004 is still on the C: drive of my current PC. I don’t think it pays to do the right thing in the long run.

It worked for Google. They corraled a majority of the internet into providing them add revenue. Google maps, Gmail, google search engine, youtube… all just more ways for them to scrape your data and serve you adds. Investors are hedging their bets on what could replace google as the information monopoly of the future.

I do not know how to even shop anymorem All the name brands I know have gotten worse, most of the new brands are unknown and have AI reviews.

Kei cars are great, kei trucks are great. I wish it was easier to get them in the United States. Im living in Japan right now, and I love my little box car, the AC works great and its cheap on gas.

It’s curated to cause problems, I wouldn’t believe anything otherwise. Douyin which is the Chinese version shows completely different content, including government narratives. Tiktok is straight brain rot, and I believe it’s curated to encourage poor behavior in users outside of China.

It ia still a good spot to hang images in categories with citation. Unfortunately most users will never cite anything, and you’ll be stuck reverse image searching from the least user friendly website ever made.