Talaraine

There are no applicable laws that I know about, and as a voice actor I am similarly concerned. There is a lot of focus on this in the industry atm, but we all know how glacially slow government moves. SAG-AFTRA and NAVA have this as a focus currently, and I’m watching with interest.

Thankfully there are alternatives out there, and we should be using them.

They don’t. The message right now is to boycott Spotify.

I think there ARE other ways to combat this, and the main one is ending activist investors that empower the Jack Welch pump and dump doctrine.

If someone wants to invest in something because they like it, they should be able to do that. What they should NOT be able to do is overwhelm a company they may or may not even like with dollars and then tell the company how to run its own business. If you don’t like what a company is doing, you SELL YOUR STOCK.

It’s this incessant worshiping of the shareholder that is step # 1 of enshittifcation.

Cancelled two weeks ago, and while it’s too early for me to have a fully informed opinion, so far I’ve noticed that if you just hold items in your cart until you reach some kind of threshold (and I admittedly don’t know what that is) you can get free shipping anyway.

It’s almost like I was paying all that money just so I could one off order anything on a whim. I’m an adult, I can exercise impulse control and stick it to Amazon in some small way by doing it. Win/Win.

Henceforth I will refer to OpenAI as ClosedAI.

Case closed.

Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.

They’re right.

Heck, I bought BG3 for an old D&D buddy of mine who didn’t have much monies and have gotten nonstop enjoyment watching their complete addiction.

It might be the best gift I’ve ever given.

Yeah I caught that too. That makes it a pro for personal computers and a con for data centers heheh

When a corporation is willing to lose billions of dollars to capture an audience, effectively locking out any competition, and then counters any possible avenue to blocking their monopolistic stance, your first statement shouldn’t be about choice, because there isn’t one.

I love how they blame Unity’s shortfall on acquisitions, but make no argument whatsoever that perhaps acquisitions should be more carefully considered with regard to the bottom line.

“Let the plebs pay for it!”

So, they mad b/c of an internal skill issue.

Will Microsoft also bend the knee to China for gaming $$$? We’ll soon find out.

Gaming is much better on Linux thanks to Steam, but having lots of problems with more recent games and their cursed launchers. I try and remember that Gen X had to figure all this stuff out with early versions of Windows and I should resurrect the same determination that got me through back then… but I’d be lying if I said it was easy.

It ‘can’ be overwhelming, yes. I’ve never found, however, so MANY online guides that literally tell you step by step what to enter in the terminal window to succeed. There’s always a learning curve, it’s just about whether or not you want to pay Windows every month to avoid figuring this out. This is why I mentioned Mint specifically, btw. It’s the most user friendly.

I’m in the same boat and have been waffling about it for some time. At least we kind of have a target for when our research needs to be done.

Maybe this will finally convince the world to move to Linux Mint

Except nobody wants to buy it… that’s the problem. Many of them have long term leases that they can’t break without significant penalties.

Unexpected Mass Effect, but appreciated nonetheless