Yeah, in general it's things that everyone experiences but to a lesser extent.

In 2021 at its height it was valued at almost 5b, yeah it's nose dived a LOT.

I didn't know how much broadcast.com was bought for tho, that is pretty nuts.

What do parents do then when they're working since childcare in the US is fucked

It's possible he knew more about yahoos future rather then specifically about his particular product being bad.

Internet radio was absolutely a thing, think iheartradio, it's fucking massive now, sure their main business isn't internet radio anymore, but it's not like there was absolutely nothing of value there.

For "every station can just make their own site" sure, but look at the state of streaming services to see how that ends up panning out. Not to mention the difficulty and ongoing costs associated with that, especially back then, much less plug and play stuff.

Not saying I support Cuban, he's definitely part of the class that constantly exploits us, just had some specific critiques lol.

In my experience it has more to do with how much less frequently issues happen and/or how often you need to go manually move files/folders around. Just not nearly as much need imo.

Similar situation with mobile devices, I remember rooting/roming/jailbreaking being much more common in the past.

I'd suggest it's directly in response to the police of the city stating there was no evidence to support Trumps claim, rather then just rolling over, now they get to investigate a bunch of bomb threats, maybe in the future a police department won't "speak out against" a claim Trump makes due to fear of similar harrasment

I didn't comment on the requirement or not, I just know I added my number long ago and have had my account for 8 years

There's no body shaming in the message you're replying to

It's kinda like saying it's weird we want Boeing or Raytheon to fail, these are companies that screw us over in the name of profit.

For what it's worth, I've had my discord account for like 8 years at this point and have never received a text from them. I guess they might have sold it off somewhere but i get more political spam then anything else lol

Understood.iso

Ha the n-sane triliogy took me 3 days to get the last achievement on, the speed run on the bonus level in Crash 1

I believe it was a joke/prediction based on the many examples of this happening. See printer ink or keurig cups as a couple.

Apple Intelligence*

Nah yeah I don't disagree, I'm not a fan of gambling, I just know it was prevelant within Eve and generally prefer systems that are potentially more fair.

Similarly, I'm not a fan of prostitution, but I'd be in favor of legalizing it in the US so that they have more protection under the law. Edit: Because the reality is, people are going to do these things, so harm reduction should be the key ingredient, and I would consider a transparent smart contract system for paying out gambling winnings in a consistent manner without the possibility of being ripped off a better end-state then people potentially being ripped off because of shady dealings.

Edit2: Here's a potentially better example, I know everyone hates NFTs because of the idiotic popularity of images as NFTs, but a legitamite use would be for digital ownership of in-game goods.

Edit3: To further add to that idea, if all player items are attached as an NFT that they "own", one could build smart contracts for something as simple as letting another player "borrow" an item for a predetermined amount of time, then it reverts back to the owner.

Reminded me of the old RS days with "free gem cutting" scammers.

In theory the game dev could build a system to make that kind of thing possible natively, but with a smart contract system built in instead, it's much less overhead on the company itself and users could potentially create smart contracts for all sorts of situations on their own.

Another simple one would be since current eve operates "businesses" one could make a smart contract for paying out from the "company" coffers to its workers, rather then manually requiring someone to be a literal in game accountant.

Edit4: ooo or automated extremely customizable shopfronts for in-game items that could be both in-game and/or standalone sites that can just function off the block chain contracts for handling ownership, once again potentially bypassing a need for the game developer to develop/maintain any kind of API for handling trades in that fashion.

Edit5: last one I promise. I think a lot of people are anti-blockchain/crypto for a lot of valid reasons such as:

Scams: yeah there's a lot of rug pull examples, price manipulation, lying about feature set, fraud, etc... but nothing about the concept of the blockchain is a scam, just like in any other forms of individual ownership systems, the problem is really human greed. NFTs going for insane prices was extremely stupid, but that wasn't even cutting the surface on the potential use cases for NFTs as a transparent digital ownership tool, but it's been so tainted by the greed and manipulation of the first use case that caught on.

Power use: Proof of Work blockchains use a shitload of power and would use more and more as time went on most likely as difficulty increases, I'd still love to see a comparison of how much energy the global banking system uses to compare to but I digress, it is a real issue. ETH moved to a Proof of Stake system in the not so distant past and now requires much less energy to function, I haven't kept up too much with how it's actually gone, but it hasn't crashed and burned yet so, assuming it works and can remain secure from unintended changes, it seems like a better way to go then PoW.

Inability to reverse transactions: This is a big one and it's a hard problem to solve without some sort of real governing body, which is kinda the opposite of the point of crypto since the code is supposed to rule. Idk what to do about that one.

There is a lot of transactions that end up taking place "off game" with things like casinos/gambling being a specific example for EVE. Rather then having to trust that you'll get your isk (I never played but watched the down the rabbit hole on EVE, which is great BTW, and watched from afar throughout the years).

With a smart contract system, there wouldn't be the same concerns that things aren't being distributed properly, unless there's a bug in how the smart contract was written, which absolutely can and has happened, but at least it'd all be publicly viewable. That's one thing I very much appreciate about the idea of crypto in general, transparency in where money is moving.

I'm sure there's other potentials but that one stuck out to me as gambling was a rather large part of eve history.

Extensibility, lots of collaborative development work across the crypto landscape rather then only being done by the company producing the game.

A quick obvious example mentioned was smart contracts, a company attempting to create that functionality from the ground up would be a lot more work then hooking into an already existing infrastructure where many lessons have already been learned from prior failures.

It doesn't actually state in the article (because the writer was mostly just whining that crypto exists) but I am curious if the idea would be for the tokens to be transacted or utilized outside of the game itself in some fashion while still being completely track able.

Edit: It'd kinda be like instead of using a standard email format/protocol, developing a whole new "electronic mail messaging system" from the ground up. Why do that when the functionality you want has already been created and heavily documented.

Edit2: Going back to my prior point about potential for transacting outside of the game itself, if a company wanted to make that happen, they'd have to build all the infrastructure/APIs/etc to interact with the database.

Same, tired of replacing the bumpers on my Xbox controllers, and want the extensibility I've seen with the decks controller layout.

Lmfao using smart contract functionality for an in-game currency actually makes a ton of sense. It's basically just a more extensible version of any in-game currency.

The caveat I think of is fees required to transact being a potential issue, otherwise the article just screams of "I hate block chain and refuse to see how it could be used in any way"

I'm sure it'll be killed and rebranded the new Google pay and the features will be dropped. Then in 5 year rinse and repeat.

I still have a physical Google wallet card from like 2013

The funny thing with that, I haven't seen a term taken like that from a tech company though.

Xerox is the only one I can think of that came close, Googling at this point...

You keep saying the ONLY POSSIBLE REASON is to get people to buy it twice, I provided reasoning and evidence to the contrary but you don't care, so yes we're done here 👍

Companies do different things? Madness! It must be a conspiracy!

You're refusing to understand the reality of developing for the PC market and instead just shifting all the blame on corporate greed and corporate incompetence at the same time.

The only recent console I own is the switch, everything else is PC all day.

I waited for GTA V to come to PC and played it a lot when it did, so... Maybe if you only expect the fomo crowd to be the only gamers in existence... Sure.

Other then they're different systems, console is much easier to test/develop on because its a consistent environment, PCs by comparison have so many potential differences per device that it's much more nuanced.

Would you rather they release a broken ass game on PC or wait and let them optimize and potentially add extra functionality?

I know what I'm picking...

To be fair, when gta v did release on PC, it had a bunch of extra features they couldn't get working performatively on the last Gen console hardware.

It does it on mobile

Smaller host sites are generally full of junk and difficult to use, plus can't beat the speeds/infrastructure of something like Netflix.

Holding a reit as an investmenr and creating the ecosystem for hiking rent prices by monopolizing ownerahip are not the same thing. I, for moral reasons, do not hold reits because I see what the companies are doing and its' effects.

That doesn't make it good for society lmfao.

The 2008 Stock Market crash is a good lesson in this, they bundled subprime loans and turned them into securities which made it into mutual funds, pension funds and generally securities held by corporations.

It was viral but not likely in a "good" or "nice" way, it was honestly hilarious, my take at the time was, bruh why do you care so much that you're literally having a breakdown about people talking shit about a celebrity.

Only the power of the all spark could solve this captcha.

Is this a crack at people who like minecraft and aren't children or at studio Execs? Lol

Also work in finance and feel similarly, I oddly would feel really bad about leaving though, I have a wealth of intimate knowledge of how our systems work and answers for oddball questions no one else at my level at least would know, so... I feel guilty even wanting to leave. I know it's not good but... Can't help it lol

Idiot user! ;)

In case it's not obvious, I agree that I don't see much of a point in case sensitivity in an OS outside of simply providing additional options for various uses, it absolutely would be confusing for end users having to interact with it in many ways.

No, lol, it's about how many Americans feel and hitting them in the feels lol

I think it was OC only not "no bots"

Back around android 3-6 it was more common, really hasn't been a thing for a while IMO. Have non-daily driver Oneplus 5t and 6t, both Lineage os 14, they work well.

I bought maytag washer/dryer oddly only the dryer is "smart" and it is just notifying when it's done, but it works just fine without internet as well. Looked around a good bit before we landed on Maytag and they've been great for the few years so far we've had them, however it's just my wife and I, not a ton of use compared to a whole family so ymmv