ExLisper

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No, I agree with the definition. What I'm saying is that quality of streaming services is not degrading. The price is going up but that's not the same thing.

And I already said that you have many alternatives: there's multiple competing services (who's competing with YT?), you still can buy disks, you can watch TV, you can go to the cinema, damn, you can even read a book. No one is locked into one source of entertainment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Streaming companies buy exclusive rights to certain content and if that’s where your tastes like, you’re pretty SOL. It’s about as close to “lock-in” as you can get.

Everything about it is wrong. They don't have only certain content, they have everything from Oscar winning movies and indie shows to shit reality shows. They don't only buy rights, they also produce a lot of content. Liking their content is not 'lock-in', you can cancel any day you like and get entertainment on may different platform (including cable TV) or just buy DVDs or whatever. The service is also not degrading in any way. The price goes up, that's the only problem people have with it. The still make Oscar nominated movies, even this year and they still make popular shows.

Youtube is the exact opposite: there's nowhere else to go for this type of content, they are pushing more and more ads on everyone and the recommendation algorithm gets more problematic all the time. That's enshitification. Netflix doesn't have any of those issues.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Meanwhile streaming services are jacking up their prices, having locked in their viewers.

That's the one thing I don't agree with. No one is locked into streaming services. Charging the prices people are willing to pay is not enshittification. Encshittfication will be when they buy all the cable TV, shut it down, start producing only reality shows and show ads every 5 minutes. So far they charge more but Netflix is still making Oscar winning movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

15 people ride trams in Wrocław.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

So now we have to check the global statistics and figure out what's the probability is of someone dying in a derailment and estimate if we should risk it or just let the one guy die. Fun!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

DDG doesn't find anything. Looks like it forgot about it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's not going to flip. Tolleys derail all the time (ask people living in Wrocław). They can't go fast enough to flip. It will just stop after couple of meters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And people stay productive by enjoying hobbies and playing games. It’s an investment in infrastructure, just like fire, healthcare, police, power, water, transportation, etc.

You can enjoy hobbies without paying for unfinished games, early access is completely besides the point here. You can buy games when those are ready and be equally productive. If you like early access games you're free to buy them, I have nothing against it. But it's not an 'investment'. It just a discount.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

To carry the whole VisionPro bag, keyboard and mouse instead of simply taking your laptop? The review makes it clear it's not usable without peripherals, you will still need some desk. It's solving a problem that doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

It's not even that it's not feasible. The entire idea is stupid. VR makes a lot of sense in entertainment and AR will one day be really great for small things like showing map directions and notifications but the concept of a virtual computer controlled by waving your hands around is just silly. It will never make sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They don't make big pieces or graphene like that. It's made as a layer of graphene on some other material. Pure graphene flakes are tiny AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What? City is absolutely making money from repaving roads. The businesses that use those roads pay taxes, people that work in those businesses pay taxes. Good infrastructure brings more businesses and more people and let's city grow. You put money in it and it brings benefits later. That's exactly what investment is.

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