OK but piracy isn't stealing it is basically a harmless free copy. The issue here is corporations want to have their cake and eat it too, but to prohibit us all from either having or eating any cake ever. Corpos like that have zero right to my consideration or care.
experbia
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I agree with your sentiment. I grew up mostly with 56k as the shiny new mainstream internet tech. I got DSL for the first time when I was like.. 13? I dislike the "stream everything" paradigm, too.
But, I do know a thing or two about it, so I want to correct a misconception you have that does make it all seem a little bit more reasonable than might appear for you at first glance:
download again and again and again instead of only once. Why not keep it instead of constantly using bandwidth for the same thing over and over?
Most of these streaming systems have built-in, automatic client-side caching mechanisms. This means that when Spotify downloads a song to your phone to play to you, it keeps a copy around in a safe place for a good while, so it doesn't have to re-download it every time. In a sense, it automates our natural data hoarding instinct and does so transparently, with keep-around durations calculated to provide the most ideal "local-replay to storage-consumed" ratio for their average users' network capabilities. The computers just take care of it automatically now so people don't have to think about it. If you only play it once, it'll toss it out for you. If you listen to it a lot, it's coming from your phone. "Streaming" is just high-speed managed file downloading.
100% right about the risk of them pulling content though. They're still a bad proposition. The DRM and "rent not own" they do screws with the whole value proposition.
Pantheon was related and extremely good too... AMC+ I think. Animated. Contains some extreme related psychological horror.
Hey man,
you're probably fine. I don't know the details, but humans are fallible. you're only human. friends should know this, they're only human too. I doubt these friends have all been perfect all the time, and I doubt they'll do everything perfect from here on out.
If it caused a problem, tell them the truth. you double booked. you had to pick one over the other. you feel bad you flaked. you don't intend to make it a habit.
if it cost people something, consider making it up somehow. but I would propose that unless it's cost them real bad, good friends ought to accept the apology without expecting the compensation. they'll mess up someday too, and it's better for everyone to be kind.
don't hate yourself. it does no good for anyone. counterproductive and undeserved. develop a system to help you. you can't always change your nature, but you can build around it.
this is incredibly inspiring and is a life goal of mine. change is scary but I want to make this change sometime. nice work!
not consistently. I find there are basically two schools of thought in 3d graphics:
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the screen is a graph representing a 3d space: the x axis is horizontal, the y axis is vertical. depth, going 'into' the screen, then becomes the z axis. mathematicians and programmers tend to like this.
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the screen is a camera viewing a 3d space from within itself: the coordinates to position yourself along a line is one dimensional: x. to position yourself on a plane as in a 2d game, two dimensional: x, y. to position yourself within a volume, three dimensional: x, y, z. humans are kind of inherently planar spatial navigators - it's easy to think about our position in terms of "where on the ground" we are, then adjust for height. 3d artists and level designers tend to like this.
Yep, same for me. It's hard to explain. It's unfair, because it's so arbitrary, but something about him feels somehow insincere, and it makes me uncomfortable.
expects us to pay their wages and for our food.
well, yes. look, I'm not a fan of the exploitative "gig economy" either, but you are paying for two things that won't ever be offered for free to you: (1) food to be prepared for you, and (2) the service of someone to transport it on your behalf. for the prior you pay the menu price. for the latter you pay service fees and tips. if you don't want to pay extra (atop menu prices) to have someone bring you the food, don't ask someone to bring you food for money.
the scummy part is not that you're being made to pay for the services you're requesting, it's that the services sometimes lie about how the workers are being paid and how much the service actually costs by wrapping up the worker's base pay (essentially) as a "tip". yes. shitty.
but i'm not sure how this differs much from, say conventional non-gig "free" pizza delivery wherein the cost to the business of(poorly) paying drivers is recouped by elevated menu prices and there is still an expectation on the customer to tip the driver to make it sufficiently worthwhile for them.
if services are taking the tips for themselves when people assume it goes to the driver, that's bad. that's happened, yes. and fuck the service for doing it. bad pizza joints have done the same thing to drivers for years when they get credit card tips or tips online, too. that doesn't make the "conventional pizza delivery economy" as a whole evil, it just makes those unethical companies assholes that should be avoided.
I was able to trick mine by connecting it to an AP with all traffic blocked. it assumes their services are down or something? and just slips right back into working fine with no nags or ads.
mine doesn't do this fortunately, but once in a while when you turn it on when it isn't connected to wifi, it will bring you to a wifi selection screen instead of your last input, and the list is sorted so that unsecured APs are at the top, and the OK button highlight (which you'd normally use to activate the feed from your last source when you turn it on) just so happens to activate the top unsecured AP, to which it will immediately connect and launch into the "internet connected" onboarding process.
this almost happened to me once when I first got it... so I set up an AP on my router that has all traffic completely blocked, and connected the TV to that. it periodically tells me to call support about internet problems, but all the nags and promos and "sign in" begs went away otherwise, so I guess it's just happy to hear from my router.
lol. lmao, even. they're not done with you yet.
be ready for filial support laws (already on the books in many states) to be enforced with gusto. when the boomers run themselves out of money for real, they'll be weilding the law as a weapon to pull their care expenses and lifestyle needs right from the paychecks of their children, like child support.