It’s not stealing when corpos do it.
Meta torrented their training data from the pirate bay. Hell, Spotify initially built their catalog from pirated music. They all do this shit. Corporations are built to steal our shit and sell it back to us. This isn’t any different from pumping oil out of pubic lands and selling it back to us.
Are you suggesting that there is a use case for piracy that has less to do with saving money than it does with convenience and easy access to media in one place?
It is probably because I am a moron and just took a long time to figure it out, but its always harder to set up network shares with my linux desktop than any other machine in my house. At this point I know how to do it pretty well, but its a LOT more involved because none of the GUI tools seem to really work right.
Like I will share a folder from my server (also running linux BTW) and its instantly viewable on my windows laptop and even my streaming devices, but to discover it on my other linux machine is always a chore that involves editing a few config files and just kinda randomly poking around until it works.
Yeah, cause its totally not end-stage capitalism to invest a trillion dollars into something and THEN figure out what its for.
I think its more that their power bills are going to go up 3x.
These guys usually name their shit after science fiction novels that they didn’t understand the themes of. This is likely named after the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons.
This, mainly so I can buy used when y’all upgrade.
If people don’t keeping buying our fake perpetual motion machine we aren’t going to make back the money we invested in building it!
Because the thing that makes American companies make money isn’t the production of better products its “business magic” that games stock prices. its been that way for a long time.
For sure. Buying higher performance machines didn’t get us better performing games, it just got us lazy developers.
What’s funny is that ding this makes it kinda obvious how incremental a lot if improvements really were. Like on paper DDR5 is MUCH better than DDR3, but somehow my old gaming machine is only a little slower than a new system playing shit that I actually run.
Oh look, American tech is just to completely implode all at once, neat.
I feel like we actually got there a whole who, at least assuming basic use and fairly conventional hardware. Getting into the command line to fix stuff been be a pain, but so is navigating the absurd hierarchy of windows settings.
Assuming a computer that is already set up properly it’s pretty much a seamless experience. If your mom bought a laptop with mint and just used it for regular browsing and shit she probably couldn’t tell the difference.
They will probably smash it all up and send it out as e-waste.
I definitely started using linux because I built an HTPC, realized I didn’t have a spare windows license and didn’t want to pay for windows.
I don’t think this is sustainable because it seems like a closed loop that eventually stops making money without any new inputs.
People NEED housing, they don’t really need computer components.
They are working an infinite money glitch:
What if we were our own customers? Then we could charge whatever we wanted and just use the money from our dumb investors, and since we are also the producers we make a ton of money on the sales!
The next headline is going to be that they run better in wine than in windows.
These greedy fucks are coming after everything you have, that’s how this works.
Kind of hilarious that the comments in this post are doing exactly what the linked post points out as the big pitfall of studies like this.