Fubarberry

Fubarberry, 5 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Amazon has an audiobook monopoly and takes 87% cut of audible sales unless the author agrees to exclusively sell through audible. If you agree to exclusively sell through audible, Amazon only takes 79% cut of the sale. Officially they claim to take 75% and 60% cuts (for non-exclusive and exclusive), but they actually pay out considerably less than they promise.

That’s what a monopoly abusing it’s power to steal from creators looks like. Valve’s 30% is literally market standard, and is so much lower than they could get away with.

Sources on how much audible takes per sale: My source, Original source

Fubarberry, 6 months ago

Thanks for the quality response.

Fubarberry, 6 months ago

I haven’t used twitch for years, and have only used it for esports streams back when I did use it. I’ve never watched a booby stream.

I just reinstalled the app, logged in for the first time in years, and my top recommended stream is called “2 GIRLS 1 SHOWER” and has a topless girl with a white bar over her boobs. The game category is listed as “art”.

Fubarberry, 6 months ago

I haven’t used twitch for years, and have only used it for esports streams back when I did use it. I’ve never watched a booby stream.

I just reinstalled the app, logged in for the first time in years, and my top recommended stream is called “2 GIRLS 1 SHOWER JUMPING JACKS” and has a topless girl in the shower painting white boxes on her arm. The game category is listed as “art”.

Fubarberry, 6 months ago

Can’t comment on the 3rd person shooter/3d platformer hybrids, but games like Mario Odyssey are fantastic modern 3d platformers. Meanwhile I’ve recently replayed some 3d platformers from the n64-gamecube eras and found they didn’t hold up as well as I remembered.

Fubarberry, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Here’s a short extension cord version of one

The explanation of why they’re a bad idea is valid though. Usually the kinds of people who know just enough to want this type of plug are also the type of people I wouldn’t trust with one.

**Edit:**I’ll go ahead and explain why people want plugs like this. These can be used to backfeed power from a generator into a house, letting you used different outlets/lights in the house. A knowledgeable person can actually use something like this safely, but most people who would use something like this don’t know enough to do it correctly. The dangers about doing this are:

• You can easily shock yourself off of the exposed pins of the cord. You can avoid getting shocked by waiting to plug into the generator until the other end is connected first.
• You can backfeed power onto the electrical grid. The power going backwards through the transformers will step up the voltage to thousands of volts, and could seriously injure or kill the linemen who are trying to fix the outage. This is avoided by making sure you’ve opened either the house’s main disconnect breaker or the breaker for the individual circuit you’re plugging into.

There are some safer ways to setup this type of generator use, there are special generator power cords/outlets that won’t have exposed energized prongs if plugged into a generator. There are also transfer switches or breaker interlock kits designed to prevent someone from being able to backfeed power by requiring them to disconnect commercial power before the generator can be fed into the house’s distribution panel.

Fubarberry, 6 months ago

I think it’s been taken down and relisted multiple times, possibly due to reports. I’ve seen these plugs on amazon for years now.

Fubarberry, 6 months ago

You’re right, I hadn’t noticed that. They have the breakers labeled backwards from how they normally are.

Fubarberry, 6 months ago

It’s always the plumbing that makes for the late night trips too. Missing a piece of wood or something electrical, and it’s fine. You can fix it tomorrow. But busted a pipe and have water cut off to the house until it’s fixed? That’s when you make a late night run to wherever is still open.

Fubarberry, 7 months ago

KDE has a lot of nice points, I do really like the customization and I think I prefer a lot of the default KDE apps over their GNOME counterparts.

But there’s just something about GNOME I find really comfortable to use. I feel like on paper I should like KDE more, but I always end up going back to GNOME and being happier with it.

Fubarberry, 7 months ago

I think this needs to be marked NSFW with Uranus like that.

Fubarberry, 7 months ago

My understanding is the KDE release schedule/development cycle keeps it from being a viable primary desktop environment for non-rolling release distros.