The interesting thing if I remember correctly is Linus whole thing was for priority software to be apart of the ecosystem. Really the low level stuff would be open and shared and any apps like user level software would be priority. There would be open source and freeware versions like on other operating systems but the foundation software would be supported by the app makers up the stack. It’s a good idea but profit at all cost companies with short term thinking always fuck it up.
I think that’s called a mac
Yeah I don’t think i can call it brain rot but I will also say i don’t get it and that’s okay. But I will say there is something about it that reaks of addiction. The way you don’t pick the content the content picks you. Like with YouTube proper or Netflix you pick the content then it starts playing.
Where with TikTok and Reels and Shorts, it’s just scrolling the media is just blaring at you. Your mind has to do the extra work to filter out the messages. It’s like cat video , kids dancing, buy this garbage , puppy video. That’s the only part that bothers me.
But as for the dances and challenges that style of content is the online equivalent of friends standing around in a circle showing off. Add a touch of narcissism that’s encouraged by the platforms and it starts to make sense to me. But what makes it gross is in that group of friends someone is secretly paid by InsertBrand to make that brand look cool.
Parasocial relationships are the real problem. With a TV show or movie it’s there to entertain there is an understanding they don’t know me. They are not my friends.
Whats sad to me is you have lots of kids and young adults that are basically in the same relationship dynamic as a CamGirl and her viewers minus the sex.
The kids are in a headspace of if I just buy what they like they will like me. If I give them money they will acknowledge me.
I fear because they are in that cycle they won’t be pushed to make friends. As making friends is hard and takes some work to maintain them. When you can get the dopamine hit you need for your loneliness and further isolate yourself with your tik tok friends.
I have no problem with this so you mean I still pay less than I would for gas and less CO2 and it incentives people to drive less or carpool?
Yeah I really liked the substance. There were a few issues but enjoyed the overall message they were trying to tell. Most A24 movies have been solid.
I stopped watching almost all franchise and remakes. Horror seems be the only genre worth watching. I had the highest hopes for the creator so much wasted potential.
So far it’s only like +1 level so they may have done some balance changes
It didn’t help they did the exclusive invite only launch of the service making it appealing to that kind of person and pushing kind of behavior to 11.
Honestly I feel the fediverse is like the 90s internet. It’s like school clubs centered around different interests and it takes a little bit of work to find your peer group but once you do it’s great. People that look to it as a replacement for Twitter are looking for a town square to shout at people and hock their wares. Anyone that makes money from engagement ether directly or indirectly are not looking for camaraderie but a market.
Im sorry any metrics from this year should not be taken with any face value. If you can put anything out that is just competent. Your going to be a huge success since there is zero competition due to the lack of releases to compete with. From pipeline gaps caused by the writers strike.
Yeah by Austin St John, dude is a bigot
Everspace 2
Yeah I was excited for halo when it was previewed as a PC game first then MS took it for Xbox never got into it
To add to this the heat being radiated is more dangerous than the EM coming off the laptop. If that gives you the idea of how not dangerous EMs fields are in normal devices.
Yeah Gen AI is the perfect demo tech looks amazing if you don’t look to close. Plus it’s the perfect bullshiting machine no wonder CEOs love it, it talks like they do. AI has its uses and it’s doing good work in the fields you don’t hear about much. But there are way more pets.com right that will go bust soon and the viable businesses will float to the surface. Hell we are going through that right now. Where web 2.0 are moving out of the growth phase and into the Enshittification phase.
Nextcloud has file sharing i just use KDE Connect though.
I use these on debian work just fine note that the chat/game audio wheel doesn’t work on Linux but they sound fine and do everything I need.
Cause the internet can’t be fun anymore. if only there were a place where you could make your own server. Maybe some prehistoric creature would know.
It’s not vger at all that was Voyager 6
This is a game I beat years ago and I still think about it. The ending made me just sit there and think in silence for a while.