CoffeeBot

joined 1 year ago
[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Good thing we keep letting these oligopolies buy each other. It’s never good for the actual people.

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Isn’t arc a chromium fork thus subject to Google’s shenanigans?

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

All the most recent OLEDs are smart TVs, the only thing I could think of that isn’t are basically things classified as digital signage but these panels aren’t really tuned for watching at home.

But your best bet is to use the TV as a display for whatever you have and switching inputs old school style. Connect it once to do software updates. Unplug from wall and don’t give it your wifi password or vlan it off the internet. Otherwise they’re all sending data back about you, and your consumption habits.

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

You see those are our oligarchs

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Bingo! It’s all classicism. It’s easy for them to look down on people who go to parks to drink and hangout. These people often have their own private grass and outdoor space they can enjoy. I live in an apartment and have beers on a blanket in public parks because the only outdoor space I really have.

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Some podcasts have chapters, chapter art, show notes, etc. “Accidental Tech Podcast” is a good example. Spotify sucks for podcasts and they’re trying to kill podcasting so they can take it over.

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Same reason I’m on Suse now as well. I got tired of tinkering all the time.

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d throw an option out for Suse but if you really want as little OS as possible Arch Linux.

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t hear that, but I’m not surprised it’s also about control. When you offer a paid API you’re capping potential revenues for those users at essentially a flat rate.

I suspect that their revenue generation plans likely would see more than 10M/yr return so they threw out some big number to kill everything, force a portion of those users to their own services where they’re planning on ramping up monetization

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I'd like to think most of the app users are power users who actually drive a lot of value and forcing them to leave will tank your business, but who knows, time will tell.

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Even a server to just go down one day. Theoretically it has a snapshot in time

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I feel like we’re seeing a lot of money leave tech. These companies are no longer getting cash injections and running into the red. The number one game for them now is revenue generation and that is through user fees and advertising. That’s why we’re seeing this shit now.

A lot of these platforms (Twitter/Reddit) started off simple and never took into account advertising. That means third party apps never got the ad feed in the general timeline.

Seeing their infinite funds dry up, these companies are now looking for where they can generate extra revenue, or where they are not generating revenue and making cuts.

These APIs cost them money. So now they’re making the gamble. Will their users tolerate losing their favourite apps to a privacy invading and ad serving machine just to access their feeds?

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