One of the few times capitalism has “worked” and all because it’s not a publicly traded company.

I really wonder where we would be if most big companies were not on the stock market as opposed to being on it.

Power corrupts, we’ve know this since the dawn of time

You had me until:

Imagine what companies would pay for the “intelligence” of knowing what their competitors are thinking

Right there is the reason why it will fall apart once it hits critical mass.

The little guys might not have a choice but the big players will run away from the cloud if it means they lose their edge.

I kind of agree with you but from experience I know when businesses get way waaay too big, they kind of trip over themselves cause of all the tech debt and spaghetti code

What about a system that works like torrents under the hood and every time you went to watch something you just download it with an expiry date?

You just need a metadata system like lemmy so people can find the videos, and once they decided to watch it, it downloads it for them via the torrent protocol.

The only disadvantage is that it won’t be streaming but let’s be honest, streaming isn’t a huge advantage for shorter clips + high bandwidth (which you need for streaming anyway).

You can also further optimize it by making each video cut into 5 min chunks so you can always download the first one and start watching sooner.

The only drawback, like others mentioned, is that it works best with a savvy user base instead of just spoon feeding you and giving you little control (which apparently people just love these days).

Fuck, I thought HDDs were spared cause of their low speed.

Kind of, I have systems of where things should belong so I try to think where it ought to be.

Okay, I’m positive it’s a waste of energy since it doesn’t work.

The ones who would be affected the most are those that aren’t even born yet.

So the headline is true in a dark kind of way

But but but, it has the word “my” in it

/s

All right, man made horrors beyond my comprehension.

Exactly, I’m glad more people are seeing it this way.

The goal of capital is to gain power and leverage, they don’t really care about some numbers.

It’s the dream of all tech companies to become a monopoly, they even say it with a straight face. They want as much control as possible? Why? So they can use the leverage for even more.

The beautiful/horrifying part is, the system weeds out any company that does not do this. The only way is for the end users to push back.

Nukes.

If you don’t got nukes, you get Gaddafied

Sure but there wouldn’t be enough power, especially if you need things like AC.

Honestly, ads would be tolerable or even pleasant if they were just a picture of the product and a few highlight points about it.

And they used to be, until marketing people learned from nazis that they could use propaganda to sell more than making a rational case for their item’s value.

His threats against Canada, especially in retrospect

Oh excellent, thanks for sharing.

$1000 computer running windows 11?

At these RAM prices?

His beard was doing a lot of heavy lifting

Heyyyy, talk about silver linings

There was no hunger meter when I played, maybe that’s due to the difficulty setting?