They probally figure they can put a lot of this (or already put a lot of this) on YouTube and split the profits with Google. Cuts down on overhead.

I dunno if corpos hiding under sex and drugs to lure people to their corpo products is a great reality either.

I have gigabit, and struggled to stream. Turned out I had the Quality of Service (QoS) /traffic priority settings on my router misconfigured.

This might be something to look into.

Can a remote user download something from your network at a reasonable and consistent speed? (Not using Plex)

Can you upload a large file somewhere and monitor the speed and see if it maintains speed as expected?

For me, these two things were also performing at unexpectedly low speeds, or being wildly inconsistent until I fixed my QoS settings.

What sort of deceptive marketing are we talking about?

It’s because doing the right thing when it comes to algorithmic social spaces means destroying the golden goose.

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Normal people learning to use screenshots was a gradual process that I noticed happen over the last 15 years. It’s really amazing how much it has changed things.

It’s a bummer that hard drives are priced this way. It’s been common for a few decades now.

The pandemic.

Isn’t the classic phrase that HR is not your friend? They are there to manage you as a resource and to protect the bottom line.

“Managed Decline” That’ll be big.

I assume they are doing checks of other things. Local software is not the same as a web service that is checking your IP for your location.

They could use location services, your registration country for your Apple ID, the sale location of your device, and other things. They could even aggregate indicators and use that.

Just wanted to say I share your complicated thoughts on this. It’s not as simple as “Rah! Rah! Piracy!” No one is entitled to another person’s work. But things get nuanced and messy fast once you move beyond that narrow contextualization.

Uh, it’s been going in that direction since the start. it’s just hitting critical mass in recent years.

I guess you can do that when you own Windows.

It seems weird for a platform holder to do this.

And they are. 😞

I guess I’m lucky I’ve never personally known anyone to preach about their diet.

For someone like myself, this all sounds overblown and just a meme/trope you see in movies and TV.

That really does sound like a bag of hurt.

But it also sounds like a fuller alternative to what the big guys offer. And in the long run it would make it a well rounded space and protocol.

It’s too bad that it sounds like it both isn’t straightforward to implement properly, and attracts heat.

I wish them luck. Privacy and security would be great. People do use these spaces as direct messaging platforms. Even if it’s not the best all around idea. As social spaces evolve, the way people message evolves too. Making it secure earlier in that cycle is good.

Same.