Polar

@Polar@lemmy.ca

Insufferable FOSS/Linux nerds are ruining Lemmy.

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Polar,

Weird. All of my dogs are free feed. While raising them, we always allowed access to a full bowl, and they’ve never wanted to eat the full thing since they know they’ll always have access.

Polar,

I love this thread.

Linux users constantly talk about how Linux just works and Windows is garbage, but then half these comments are talking about how you should buy an entirely different computer to make Linux run with FEWER issues.

Windows may have it’s problems, but I don’t need to buy an entirely new PC to make it work. AMD, Nvidia, Intel, doesn’t matter. It just works.

Polar,

Do you have any idea how excited I was for the GTA trilogy remake? I’ve been waiting for so long. Only to be slapped in the face.

The worst part is that I know rockstar will never attempt to remake them again. I’ll never get that San Andreas remaster.

Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

Polar,

Going to be honest, I don’t really care that I got rid of my VHS tapes and 480p DVDs.

Polar,

Um, America? Name any large company and it’s America based and tracking you.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta…

Meanwhile all of the services I use that do respect my privacy are from other countries like Switzerland, Canada, Sweden…

Polar,

We call that justifying your purchase. You forced yourself into liking it so you didn’t “waste” the money.

Polar,

$20 CAD gets you a family plan that you can share up to 5 people, so $4 CAD each.

Not sure what you’re on about. If you’re paying $20 for Spotify you’re getting ripped off.

Or you can pay $25 CAD for YouTube Premium, share it with 5 people, and get both YouTube ad free AND YouTube Music for $5 CAD per month.

I’d rather pay $4/$5 per month to access millions of songs than $20 for an album that I will get bored of in a few months, thanks.

Polar,

Nah. If you say anything positive about Windows or non-foss software you’re downvoted to hell.

Makes having conversations about anything not to due with Linux impossible.

Polar,

As a Canadian, I agree with you, but this is probably made by an American, and they don’t get paid by patients per hour.

They nickel and dime everyone. Our ad added an extra 50 seconds to the appointment? Well now your bill went from $45,000 to $47,000.

Polar,

Thanks, conservatives!

Polar,

I took mine out of the case recently and it’s almost unusable. The screen goes to the edge like you mentioned. It’s paper thin so my hand doesn’t fit around it nicely for my thumb to swipe around. Lastly it’s slippery as fuck.

My phone case isn’t for protection. It’s for making the phone usable.

Polar,

That’s not my experience. I ask someone where a really strange item is, and they’ll tell me the exact aisle, exact shelf, and exact bin. All from memory in 2.5 nanoseconds.

Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy

Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....

Polar,

Or Windows just works on so much different hardware. You can build a PC with the weirdest mix and match of hardware, and Windows will just… work. Also I bought a Microsoft sidewinder wheel from 1998 from a thrift store for $8, plugged it into my Windows 10 PC, and it just worked. Nothing special was needed. 1998 hardware literally plug and play on Windows 10 (and I’ve tested it on 11, and it works the same).

You can install MacOS on non-Apple hardware, but you need to buy very specific hardware, and download very specific hacks, to make it work.

Even Linux only works on specific hardware. This entire thread has people talking about how broken Linux is on their setups. The suggestions are to buy specific hardware and run very specific versions of Linux.

Polar,

Can’t wait for Linux to be mainstream in 2085!

Polar,

My instance doesn’t block it, so it’s everywhere.

Most of the posts come from lemmynsfw.com

Polar,

Mines just porn lol

Polar,

It’s very cool that you’ve never had any opinions about food before. Congratulations.

Polar,

You’re getting upset over people hearing about someone adding an ingredient they don’t like into a globally recognized dish, and saying “ew”.

You’re acting like these people are protesting in the streets.

Have a little fun, my guy. People reacting to this saying “ew” is okay. I also personally think the idea of it is gross, and personally I won’t be trying it. Even if it turns out to be amazing, the texture is too much for me, and that’s okay.

Polar,

I just hate the fact if 10mm is too big, I can get 9mm, but if 15/16 is too big, fuck me, I guess. Bringing the full toolbox over because what random fucking bullshit number comes before it?

Like I’m here to fix shit, not do math to figure out which socket is one size smaller.

Polar,

It’s also the toxic community.

I was called a racist and holocaust denier because I asked someone how they expect YouTube servers to be paid for if you refuse to pay for premium, and don’t want to watch ads.

My comments were downvoted like crazy, and the person who called me a racist holocaust denier was upvoted…

Again, all because I asked a question about how servers should be paid for. What the actual fuck? Reddit is insanely toxic, but Lemmy takes the cake.

Polar,

Yes, because calling me a racist Holocaust denier, and having those comments upvoted is very non toxic.

It takes other users to upvote those comments.

Polar,

Sorry I meant storage, which was apparent by my following sentence “and Google hosts an unbelievable amount of data”

Polar,

Creators can see how much they make from premium subscribers vs ad views. They do make more from people who pay for premium.

Why do you say they don’t? Like I’m curious where you got that from, when it’s blatantly wrong?

Polar,

I agree that the pricing doesn’t make sense unless you can split it, which is what I do.

Premium is $25 in Canada. You can add 5 people to your plan. That makes it $5 per month for each of us.

Personally I don’t buy cable or satellite TV, so I get most of my enjoyment from YouTube. So to me $5 per month is nothing, especially if you have something like Spotify which you can cancel and use YouTube Music, which is included in that $5.

If you have no friends and you’re the only one footing the bill, I agree that the pricing is a lot. At that point you just have to deal with the annoying ads.

I hate ads as much as anyone, but my question still remains for anyone who demands on blocking all ads and refusing to pay for premium, how do you expect servers and creators to be paid?

I know Google can technically afford it, but that’s not how businesses are run. You can’t take profits from one department to make up for the losses in another department, and as we know bandwidth is extremely expensive, and Google hosts an unbelievable amount of data, and free, too.

Like I’ve mentioned in the past, I have a bunch of videos uploaded to YouTube to share with family, and they are all private. Therefore Google is paying to store my videos, while making $0 from them, as they are not public and making any ad revenue.

I also know that Google is bad. Corporations suck. All that jazz. I just don’t understand why most of Lemmy users think everything should be free, but when asked about how these things are supposed to get funded, they go silent.

Lemmy itself won’t be around long if users refuse to donate to their instance, and refuse to view ads. Even if someone is hosting an instance in their basement, the cost of internet, replacement drives, maintenance, and electricity all add up.

Polar,

Bro, it’s so fucking frustrating that I need to be subbed to 5 different Android communities just to get my news.

I can’t sub to just one because I miss news if I do.

My only hope is that Boost brings multi-reddit support to Lemmy, so I can just click on “Android” and get the news from all 5 Android communities.

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