At least then the lies have reason. It’s fucked up reason, but it’s reason.

April fools day is FUCKING LYING FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE TO FUCK WITH PEOPLE AND LIE FOR THE SAKE OF IT.

And notebly shit like this actually can cause real problems. Iv seen April fools jokes cause thousands in lost dollars because of stock swings due to this bull shit for example

People ACTUALLY get hurt over this crap too. It’s REALLY fucking annoying.

For the wealthy at that level it is effectively debanked. If anything it’s even more effective then a poor person getting normal debanked.

An unflared sharp object even …

It’s funny you think that deleting your account is goanna remove the data.

They will just pull a back up. There’s zero chance these companies are going to risk losing the equivalent of pure gold

Honestly anything is an improvement over the subpar translation tools we had before. Still ain’t great but we can give a W where it’s earned.

If you can find a mid range in that price range your living in bullshit land of nonsense and rainbow unicorn farts.

The ai bubble has ass fucked laptop pricing.

Even the second hand market is fucked.

Most 500-700 dollar laptops are the ewaste crap now. Anything below that price point is out of date Chromebooks at best.

Google only does two things.

Roll out a product REALLY well then ignore it forever leaving it an amazing state that everyone loves and is insanely consumer friendly before randomly deciding to axe it with no reason.

Or roll out a product REALLY well then promptly over monetize it forever ruining everything good the engineers did in the first place. Thus making it very extremely unconsumer friendly.

They have no middle ground.

Stadium country rap… It’s awful

I feel like by this logic Amazon and Walmart would also need to obtain lisences to sell video games that have music in them…

That or I’m too tired and bread dead to understand the stupid shit I just read.

That’s called algospeak.

Iv already started seeing games with older versions of BE and EAC say consumer windows 10 isn’t supported any more and not working.

Trying to stay on windows 10 and be a gamer is quickly going to become a nightmare with more compatibility issues then Linux.

You literally insulted Linux tho…?

You would basically have to convince a few hundred million people to not use the internet for months at a time with out a single percentage of them breaking the boycott to actually even start to hit aws.

Countless things have to start failing before aws even starts to feel it since it’s not a consumer product. You basically have the drive all the companies using it to near bankruptcy so they can’t afford to pay for aws anymore.

Expect for you know the fact Amazon ran 40% of businesses out of business and covid killed another 40%.

Your option in the vast majority of the case is to get fucked or use Amazon/AliExpress which is just Amazon China edition.

Which is infinitely worse then Amazon. At least Amazon has basic consumer protections unlike AliExpress.

Yes. It’s literally the only one for the options thats an actual replacement to discord. Not some half shit fucked project that everyone’s trying to shoe horn into being one. Or ran by idiots…

We have loads of alternatives, but no actual replacements other then fluxer.

There’s also the problem that the current trend of open source decentralized bullshit going on is well meaning and has their hearts in the right place. But are so out of touch with reality that unless your chugging the Kool aid you can’t in good faith say anything is actually acceptable for normal users. Maybe in another 5 years and if somehow the foss community pulls some UX developers out of their collective asses. But that’s unlikely.

Even fluxer is months away from being ready for prime time. It needs more servers, better support for self hosting and just time. But it at least is actually trying to be a replacement and the developer behind it is actually targeting normal users. Not crack head foss people with no standards and more time then they know what to do with.

I love me a good over complicated poorly designed nightmare thats overly engineered as much as the next guy. And I do mean that legitimately. Tinkering is what I live for.

But fuck man… This is a problem that needs a solution that NORMAL USERS can just understand with no explanation. Which is something the foss community is famously unable to do with out a sacrifice of biblical proportions.

Fluxer isn’t entirely centralized. It has self hosting support.

It’s quasi centralized pretty much the same as matrix.

You can just opt to not use the central server for hosting services.

It hasn’t improved in two years. It’s not going to. Teamspeak developers are slower than Wayland’s.

Fluxer exists and is a near 1:1 drop in replacement.

It’s current only real problem is the servers are overloaded. But it has a self host option to bypass that very problem.

It’s more steam just does fucking nothing. Everyone is equally allowed to be as awful as they want.

Which means the far right who are the worse of us all, get to be infact the worse of everyone on steam. And because they are the worse they stand out the most.

Valve has ALWAYS basically been as hands off as possible in moderation. For the worse.

Gabe has always been behind this too. He believes pretty publicly that people should be allowed to say what ever the fuck they want.

Death threats, racism, sexism? All allowed. Just as positivity, kind gestures, and inclusivity is allowed.

Just the negative assholes are Infinitly louder then positive people. Because positive people just shut up and go quiet instead of defending themselves or engaging with the assholes.

Which to be fair is the right call you can’t beat an asshole at his own game. He has more experience shit talking.

Dota, counter strike, and now deadlock all are pretty great examples of valves moderation style even beyond steam.

End of the day Gabe is libertarian and has stated multiable times that valves moderation is based on his libertarian viewpoints. Valve is self described as a libertarian platform.

Agree or disagree it’s Gabe’s platform and Gabe’s believes and how he sees things. Your opinions don’t matter or hold any sway. Gabe’s are the only ones that matter on how valve moderation is done. Don’t like it. Then leave.

It fucking sucks but that’s the downside to private businesses. They can do what they want they don’t have stock holders they have to please and thus, they don’t have to please anyone but themselves.

So long as the service is consumed the how they run it doesn’t matter.

Rossman has always been a very classic example of a shit person who is right about one thing in a very toxic way.

He’s entirely right about right to repair. He’s also toxic as fuck about it, runs with shady people and has always had very questionable motives.

But he is right about right to repair.