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What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting.

Yet in spite of all this, certain games won't let you turn it off or have hair/fur/foliage look like dogshit without it so sometimes I still use it.

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[–] pathief 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the last months I tried to cut as many Google services as I could. I use the Proton suite now, it's nice.

Unfortunately I still heavily rely on them for Android phone and TVs... Not to mention YouTube, which is yet to have a good competitor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I doubt we'll ever see competition to Youtube. It has reached the point where they will basically have to be antitrusted like AT&T to see a competitor.

[–] obinice 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't even know if YouTube will be around in 30 years, let alone not have competitors.

All gigantic businesses think they're too big and entrenched and used every day to fail, until they do. Just look at Yahoo! as one example from recent memory.

So, we'll see, I suppose!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In the end I am just a dummy on the internet speculating. For all I know climate change will be coming down from the top rope and take Google with it.

[–] ilinamorato 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean...you're probably right. But there's a little part of me that thinks...they said the same thing about Facebook, that it wouldn't last five years, that it would go the way of MySpace and something else would jump in, but... it's been just a few months shy of 20 years now, and even though it's not the juggernaut it used to be, it's entrenched in a way I never expected.

And then there's, like, GE, which is 130 years old...or Cigna, Remington, Citi, or Chase, which are older. Some others, like AT&T, do a little dance and come back...I dunno. Some companies just have staying power (in the case of Cigna, I think it might be a pact with some unholy abomination). And they're all still dominating or at least leading their respective markets.

Even your example, Yahoo, while certainly not the cultural force it once was, is still around in a slightly different incarnation. Nothing ever really dies, it seems.