Why would you trust steam? Valve famously invented lootboxes and tried to do the NFT market thing before NFTs were big. They are the strongest DRM on the market. What makes you think they’re not just as greedy?

No, it’s shocking that the destroyed evidence after being explicitly instructed not to.

It is for us plebs, look up adverse inference

What’s NVidia seeing in the gaming space? Or do they conflate gaming and ML sales?

And one government has international support

Not US corporation good, just US corporation = US controlled. This isn’t a morality play, it’s a national security play.

Well China is refusing to divest, i.e. sell it to a US owner so clearly that’s not an option for them. If it was about the money they would have.

For now

You’re assuming its a profit-focused endeavor rather than a propaganda arm of the Chinese government.

Apparently TikTok sent out push notifications telling users to call their representatives. Minors were being provided instructions with their representatives’ phone numbers and contact info, but didn’t even know who they were calling and were asking basic questions like “What is Congress?”

Kind of shows the amount of power TikTok has over American youth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton’s_fence

Libertarians think they’re smarter than everyone else and never wonder why the fence is there in the first place.

Not just “remain visible” - actively promoted. There’s a reason people talk about Youtube’s right-wing content pipeline. If you start watching anything male-oriented, Youtube will start slowly promoting more and more right-wing content to you until you’re watching Ben Shaprio and Andrew Tate

Everyone’s commenting on their books but twitch’s published numbers are all bullshit pretending they’re paying market rate for AWS when they obviously get a deal being a subsidiary of Amazon. IIRC their last attempt to show they needed to up prices even had them using non-bulk AWS rates which they obviously wouldn’t pay even if they werent owned by Amazon.

Netflix recently stopped me from casting to my tv from my phone, which used to work fine

But does Netflix even have good movies? Like I think it’d be easier to do exactly that but on HBO Max or Disney Plus, or a TV show on Hulu.

I’m sure the baggers would rather be employed rather than laid off. I’d rather have the money go to a bagger than the CEO’s pockets.

If it has such a small effect, why is Apple so hell-bent on stopping it?

Turns out even under socialism, I’d still rather have someone else scan and bag my things.

Not a win for the shopper, who now has to scan and bag their own items. Not a win for the now laid-off cashier who is unemployed. Only a win for the company, which has gained free labor.

I feel like 90+% of the time I use Google, it’s just because it’s more convenient than going to the actual website I want. Like if I want a Wikipedia article about a movie, it turns out it’s faster to type in the movie name in Google and click than go to Wikipedia and search the movie.