Witcher 4 will be an Epic Games and console exclusive, won‘t it?

I still wouldn‘t willingly enter a Chinese car or a Tesla.

Isn‘t the Reddit front page full of reposted older threads by bots anyway? That repost bot would repost reposts of other bots then. I am not sure what this would accomplish other than turning Lemmy into yet another soulless content mill.

So much for „laws that apply in the real world apply in the digital world too.“ They‘re proposing a lawless playground for corporations that will definitely get abused to damage industries, people, and attack democracy as a whole.

Hackers not being able to do frontend isn‘t surprising if you ever talked about usability with an IT person. Their deeper knowledge of the matter prevents them from thinking like an average user. They legitimately can‘t do it properly to save their lives.

People still contribute to this scam? That‘s a shame.

Problem is Youtube is known to censor these kind of campaigns. I think they literally got caught delisting Tiny11 tutorials recently. Imagine what they‘ll do if Linux Tutorials pick up steam. Big tech is one giant illegal syndicate and politicians have invested in all of them.

I don‘t believe in laziness. There is no scientific proof for laziness but plenty evidence that points in the opposite direction. It‘s as ridiculous of a concept as an almighty god. Possibly even more outlandish.

Boredom is torture. Nobody is acting lazy out of choice. We simply spend our energy at unproductive things sometimes. But honestly? Isn’t that what all this circus is about in the end? That we do what we love or that we do things for others because we love them?

Show me one „lazy“ person and I‘ll tell you why they‘re not actually lazy but occupy themselves with things you or I don‘t deem important. It‘s not laziness. It never is.

I‘m realizing one of the main problems with Lemmy is that this crap isn‘t deleted by mods and downvotes are the same as upvotes in terms of being pushed to the front page it seems. We can‘t do anything against this nonsense except ignoring it.

Seems like standard procedure to higher ups in China. They did something similar to Xi Jinping‘s father when he spoke out against a violent solution for the protests. Too bad Xi learned all the wrong lesson‘s from his dad‘s political exile.

I mean you still have strict privacy rights on private communication channels. Channels that are generally not considered a public place. At least on paper.

Oh no! Genocidal maniacs have taken control over TikTok… again!

I‘m not sure how this is handled in other places but since the Fediverse is a public forum I think you wouldn‘t have any rights to privacy on your Fediverse account in Germany. Any instance hosted there would likely still need to access your DMs if authorities order them to.

Still neat, though!

I mean Apple and Microsoft essentially built their empires on the backs of Open Source developers who believed in a free internet. They took openly available code, altered it and put a price tag on it. Software development and by extend the internet was stolen from the public by the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Okay but Japan had a major breakthrough the other day that made this technique obsolete for the majority of components.

I mean if every headline about massive breakthroughs was the full truth all our appliances would be powered by tiny nuclear power plants and we would fly around with our jetpack. Cancer would be but a distant memory and world hunger a non issue because vertical farms would be literally in every home.

You think prices will fall now that there are giant new capable data centers everywhere? AAA Gaming will become synonymous with cloud gaming and the hardware to run games at home won‘t be produced anymore. They’ll build even more data centers instead. It‘s a much more useful business model to establish tech feudalism for the overly rich.

The problem is if nobody sells affordable hardware or hardware at all anymore, the only path they can go is cloud gaming. That means from here on onward ownership is dead.

Execs genuinely couldn‘t care less about what people want. They are the architects of this trend away from physical media.

I’m making the prediction that any hardware that isn‘t essentially just a screen that connects to the internet will become more and more expensive to the point no one can afford them. Major brands that we all know and use today will withdraw from manufacturing end consumer products.

I‘m guessing 10 years from now virtually everyone will be forced into cloud service subscriptions for gaming because the hardware to run these games won‘t be sold to us anymore. For a while Chinese companies might try fill the void the likes of Nvidia and AMD left but that will be short lived too.

You will go retro and learn to take care of your soon old timer hardware that will become ever more pricey to fix as spare parts get more rare and ridiculously expensive expensive or you will own nothing and be happy with that.

Yes this is all speculative but it‘s a vision of the future that becomes more and more obvious to me by the day.

Initially I thought this was about the 30% but they mentioned a new two tier system so I looked it up. It seems Apple‘s App store fees are more complicated than that. For example they charge $99 annually for developer accounts which doesn‘t sound much but that‘s basically the entry subscription to even participate. I didn‘t dig very deep but it gets more complicated from then on.

I loved the idea but it had too much of an impact on how a battle plays out. I hope it‘s kept but toned down considerably.