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There's probably a strong English bias to that currently, but other languages will come with time

Didn't realize Kansas was next to Louisiana.... super weird

Everything depends on a subscription now, so you are always one TOS update from being fucked. With enshittification setting in, I'm expecting to see this move pulled over and over. Just wait till AWS tries it. Or WordPress. Could singlehandedly tank the internet.

Google now used to be so good. Integration between calendar, email and maps for appointments and travel plans was amazing and I don't even travel that much. But it just all worked and was legitimately helpful.

No one since has really sat down and tried to figure out ways to speed up or improve a typical users daily routine. They just build little isolated gimmicks that seem cool in an advert, but barely get used in reality.

I hate that everyone wants to build an ecosystem that locks you in and then doesn't even seem to deliver on the low hanging fruit that being in that ecosystem could accomplish.

Hmm, guess I've just influenced everyone I know enough to use the boxes. The only people who don't that I know are also traditional cable only people and don't use streaming services at all.

Are people actually using the built in apps over a dedicated box? I figured most people had a dedicated streaming device for at least their main TV. So much faster, better updates, more consistent (and with things like Apple TV I think the only way to access the platform)

It was at the time, but honestly it wasn't great for my ability to retain much of what I watched. Good old ADHD hyperfocus kicking in.

So is this something that all companies deal with? For example:

If Google builds an app with an embedded library that costs a license fee, and the company that offered that license decides to raise is price by 10x for future versions and they only give 3 months warning. Now my app has to go without security updates or suddenly be subject to extreme charges. But I don't have enough time to completely rewrite my app either.

I find it hard to believe companies would leave this sort of thing up to chance. If AWS suddenly decided to 100x it's price structure would that actually fly legally? If so, why don't they?

Can someone help me understand? Maybe my understanding of contracts is too simple but in this example:

I've developed and published a unity game. The game is complete and will receive no future updates from me, but will remain on sale for the foreseeable future.

My understanding of the current situation is that unity is somehow claiming these new terms will apply to my game. But I don't see how that's feasible. Shouldn't my relationship with unity be at an end as the product was completed? Would I have to de-list my completed game to avoid charges? How is that legal?

Im some cases I could see how this could destroy someone's livelihood and people have killed over that sort of thing before. But my guess is that the people sending the death threats probably aren't even developers.

Guaranteed anyone who can actually fight back gets their own contract that exempts them from this.

I'm not at all disagreeing with the overall sentiment here, but having given it a go, I will say AI image generation is a very tedious endeavor many times.

It's not just clicking a button. It's closer to trying to Google some very specific, but hard to find medical problem. You constantly tweak and retweak your search terms, both learning from what has been output so far and as you think of new ways to stop it from giving you crap you don't want. And each time you hit search the process takes forever, anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours.

I don't really feel like this constitutes skill, but it does represent a certain amount of brute force stubbornness to try to get AI image generation to do what you want.