Rentlar

@Rentlar@lemmy.ca

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Rentlar,

I try my best :)

Rentlar,

At the top of OOP’s roadtrip playlist

Rentlar,

Additionally, for some reason, pirated stuff often has better quality than paid stuff - it’s something I cannot fathom.

Right!? This is the most baffling part to me. Random people with camcorders at theatres have better video quality than Netflix’s garbage-tier 720p that we saw in this video.

Rentlar,

Precisely. And the game franchises that do this the most successfully are the ones with pre-existing brand recognition to ride off of. When you start with a forgettable story and characters, then no one (outside of a small few who like being disappointed I guess) will engage with it.

Rentlar, (edited )

I think the problem is the idea of subscription services themselves which has caused companies to become adversaries to the customers rather than partners.

When you pay a one-time fee for an item or service, it’s in that business’s interest to make you feel valued as a customer, to bring you good so that you are likely to pay one-time fees again in the future.

With a recurring fee model, it’s in the business’s interest to make you use their service less while still paying, because if you use it too much they lose money, and if they price it according to how the power users use it then it won’t be a competitive deal.

Example: when you get flights costing $200 per domestic trip, the airline wants to make you feel not terrible for choosing them. But if instead of that you paid $1000 a month to fly domestically “as often as you want”, they will degrade the experience so that you wouldn’t even want to fly more than 5 times per month, like duct tape you to your seat if they were allowed to, or put restrictions like “only to these cities” or “only on our 3am flights” or “only on trips less than x days or longer than y days”.

No matter the industry, the whole premise of the RR model is to trick you into pretending you still have whatever original value of service, while screwing you in every possible way just short of the point that causes you to cancel. That makes them the most money.

I used to pirate because I was a broke kid. Now I have money (not as much as Rossman and no money for these subscriptions) but I too need to find value when I give this money I earned to someone who makes a thing. As Rossman said, if you’re tinkering to get the thing you paid for, at that point you might as well tinker and not pay for it.

P.S.: Rossman is aware his whole shtick is “angry man yells at cloud while sometimes petting cat”. I get many people don’t like it. Don’t watch it then. Odysee is just Rossman’s spare platform in case YouTube doesn’t like him anymore for whatever reason. Yes it’s full of loonies (and you can call Rossman one too if you want) but just don’t give them your attention.

Rentlar,

To me it seems almost sarcastic, but it’s funny in good taste.

Rentlar,

If logged in, you can change the default sorting method and post scope in your user settings. Depending on your interface this option should reflect when you open it (works and can be set in Jerboa for example).

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Hot’s my favourite because I get a good mix of posts people on “New” upvoted and popular posts of the day.

Rentlar,

The crayon company employs child labour and this girl is drawing crayon wrappers.

Rentlar,

Great message, but heaven almighty this is a Big Kahuna of a repost! My comment is on your Lemmy post of a Tumblr Note of a Reddit comment and post of a Quora question and answer…

Rentlar,

Can’t forget the salt lick for the horse.

Rentlar,

www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com well you can try it with any two pages of your choosing!

Rentlar, (edited )

I think it ultimately depends on what you are looking for, if there is a community for that then go there first. AskLemmy is good for questions you want input on. For other stuff I think places like !chatter (I’d like that place to be more active), !chat (if you’re federated there), !general are good places to put questions looking for something that doesn’t necessarily fit any existing categories.

(fixed chat to chatter)

Rentlar,

Ah shoot, figured out why, it’s !chatter no wonder no one can get to it, haha!

Rentlar,

This advice is great for anyone whose favourite card game is 52-pickup.

Rentlar,

I like how the horizontal axis of the tan graph is theta per rad but there are no scale markings…

Rentlar,

Yep, I’m jaded in my expectations knowing what Lemmy was prior to the massive expansion through June and July…

It was still a fun place, but it was a couple dozen posts a day across all servers, by a handful of people from the bigger servers.

We still have a lot of fixes to make on Lemmy, especially on the moderation, management, and content filtering side of things (though apps have been thankfully filling the gaps on some of these issues). Niche communities still need more participation to get off the ground. I’ll see again where we are in a few months from now.

Rentlar,

I won’t be lying I’ve seen like 5 reposts of some amd threadripper news in my active feed within 10 pages.

It’s true and one of the pitfalls of the de-centralized model. As a poster I try to crosspost the same link across servers to multiple communities big and small, as a way for people to “discover” niche communities.

I’m in full agreement on how there should be more laid back “chat about something” content. You might interested in having a look at beehaw.org (not federated with LW or SJW), that has !chat and that server might be more your speed, I personally like it a lot. Bee sure to read and follow the spirit of the server rules.

Rentlar,

Thanks. I’d heard they were serving WINE on some trains… (suspicious look)

Rentlar, (edited )

Idea: Join me on !trains and help me post more Linux-free train and railway news?

!bahn auf Deutsch!

Rentlar, (edited )

I agree… Beehaw is such a wonderful and special place on the internet. I have an account there but I try to keep it separate from my main Lemmy.ca one so that I better hold myself accountable to the server rules, in order to foster nicer discourse.

Rentlar, (edited )

It’s a (mostly) Japanese Fediverse social media network with a fuckton of cute emoji reactions, static and animated.

Screenshothttps://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/7a90ea6b-473a-4e3c-a435-89569f9bf05f.jpeg

Firefish (was Calckey) seems to be based off of this.

Rentlar, (edited )

Well, I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts.

There are a number of thread topics on Lemmy that seem to keep going the same direction (Google, Musk, Gaza, Trump, Windows, etc.), and as you say, it can be frustrating and exhausting…

At the same tine on Lemmy, I had found articles that were worthwhile reading, updates to FOSS that I would have otherwise missed, no shortage of silly memes, and a handful of new perspectives that were positively thought provoking. Those let me look past most of the negative things and stuff that is pervasive on all kinds of forums, Reddit and social media on the whole.

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

Rentlar,

Seems to me an overreaction to complain about a single checkbox suggesting that people who make YouTube videos make actual money from sponsorships where ads get them jack shit. They added Sponsorblock but just have a one-time warning, is that really big of a deal? It’s informational, and if you don’t like it, ignore it and move on with your day.

If they were more insistent like a popup every time you used it I could see getting upset about it.

Rentlar,

Yeah. I use NewPipe myself just to be able to enjoy videos with my screen off, that Youtube has locked behind a subscription for no good reason.

That said Rossman is someone who sticks to his principles and the FUTO group is an extension of those principles. At heart he’s a New York businessman so he knows that people need money to live, but he also isn’t trying to stop people to do what they like with tech that they supposedly have purchased.

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