deliriousdreams

Yeah but they aren’t a printer or a publisher in their own right. They’re a distributor and that’s a lot of the problem.

They would need a legal agreement to do that and that would cost money and time and possibly make them liable for using the data to train AI so they aren’t going to do that.

For the downvoters: Amazon doesn’t have a physical publishing arm. We aren’t talking about ebooks here.

Oh no…

It helps the police track your kids.

It’s better for them because it does two things. It keeps you on the page longer (which allows them to steal more data from you or sell you more ads), and it normalizes their LLM.

Wild that it happened once, let alone multiple times, especially with all the cameras in those things.

When you Air Traffic Controler tells you to drop 10K feet and enter the landing pattern but you do it wrong and they start waxing poetic about fucking your mom. /s

So they can blame the spending on the incoming administration in the event he doesn’t get elected again?

I work in the field. I really liked the weather tile from Windows8/10 because my computer often would tell me at a glance if the weather was going to turn nasty. That was handy.

What makes you think creatives don’t benefit? I think it depends on what it is and who publishes the thing. Lots of Indie game developers do benefit from purchases of their games. There are entities that tend to benefit more (publishers, store fronts, etc), but that doesn’t mean that the people who made the game don’t benefit.

It’s the same with music. Labels definitely benefit more. Streaming services benefit more. But at the same time that doesn’t mean the artist who made the music doesn’t benefit.

Pixel 9 Pro XL here. Running Graphene because I don’t hate myself. If this is true I probably won’t buy another one.

I think people should be paid for their work. I was happy to pay for music and movies and games. But I am not going to pay for something just to have it ripped away at a moments notice just because of corporate greed.

Additionally, I fully understand why someone would pirate when the thing they want isn’t available to them to purchase, or is out of their price range.

Same.

It would be simpler to just overlay Bluetooth or RF signals it can read with signals so numerous and strong that it is overwhelmed. The main problem with that is the size of the hardware you’d need.

You could pull the 20 phones in a trench coat thing that one guy did to create “traffic jams” where there were no cars.

lol. Guess Rumbas are illegal now. I guess it’s good the company is out of business.

Yeah. I’d accuse it of Karma Farming except we don’t do that here.

I thought about what you said some, and I think it’s not that we’re doomed.

These companies are making a concerted effort (with multiple modes of attack and hundreds or thousands of variables taken into account) that is multi-pronged and in lock step with all the other corps in order to prevent people from leaving. Because it’s basically the same no matter what platform you switch to.

So what it takes isn’t just “quit buying [X thing]” and teach these companies a lesson. It won’t be one singular action by millions or billions of people that makes that change. It’s got to be multiple actions done by the majority working together in order to make the kinds of changes we’re asking for.

Anyone saying “just do this one thing and that will show them” is underestimating just how organized and streamlined the system we are working against is.

It will never be one thing. Large problems never are one thing.

If we all stopped buying said product or one company’s products tomorrow they would switch it up (by doing market research and lobbying and incentive programs and so on) in order to find a new line and continue their upward trajectory. It won’t just be a new ad campaign or a new cheaper alternative product or more features or whatever. It will be all of those things and more.

So what we really need is to brainstorm some dynamic angles to attack this from and do all of those at the same time.

Dry erase board?

Big lumber is cutting down rainforests so even though I’ve trained my whole life in wood working, having invested time and money into a tool set and work space for the purpose, someone online thinks I should stop complaining about the problems with Big Lumber and just quit being a woodworker all together.

That’s what this sounds like.

I will fully admit that Apple has a walled garden. We have known that for decades. I understand that the sentiment is, “if you don’t like it vote with your wallet”. I even understand that there’s a lot of value when thousands or millions of people do that all in one go.

But at the same time, asking someone to quit their trade because the platform is corrupt and you want to stick it to the man just doesn’t work.

There’s a lot of irony in this post.

For one thing, I don’t consider Lemmy a place where normal/not tech savvy people hang out. For another I have found Apple users to be extremely entrenched in the ecosystem. I don’t even think it’s necessarily about the green bubbles or whatever. Primarily it seems to be about comfort and usability. They’re used to Apple and the ecosystem so that’s where they stay. That’s their comfort zone.

So yes. They will complain about the things they don’t like. That’s normal and human, and it’s generally how things get fixed. A closed mouth don’t get fed and all that.

But also, where are we suggesting he switch to? Apple seems to have succeeded in locking this person into their walled garden. He makes app and services for Apple’s ecosystem.

He can’t just switch to android and continue to do that. He can’t just switch to windows and now test anything. Even if he did switch to Windows, Windows has the same if not a worse problem.

He told you in his video why he will continue to buy Apple. Lots of people are in the same boat even if their reasons for sticking with one company over another are different at a granular level.

So, telling people to just stop isn’t going to do much. Especially when you’re not suggesting alternatives that are viable.

But even if you were, (and knowing that I wouldn’t switch to Apple from Android because I never could get used to navigating an Apple phone when I had one for work), I doubt you’re going to get the result you want.

Just look at the number of users who won’t switch from Windows.

Shan’t.