I literally watch TV through a capture card right now out of stubbornness and principle. Anything I want to record, I can just hit a button and safely keep. No DRM preventing me from taking screenshots, I can manipulate the picture to hide obnoxious graphics or ads (great for sports); the sense of control is extremely gratifying.
When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.
i tried to get into streaming but i grew increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever as titles appear and disappear at the whim of suits. how could that possibly be a pleasant UX for customers?
i’d take the hassle of having discs or managing a server any day of the week over paying these goons for access to their files which they happily negotiate away for financial reasons. it’s just a disgusting paradigm. when netflix was starting streaming, i thought (i was like 15) we were emerging into a great new age, where every show you could ever want was on one beautiful service.
now they won’t even let you share accounts or screenshot the fucking show (a pig-headed anti-piracy measure which is mind-blowingly stupid given every single show on there is available for free if you know where to look ANYWAY. what are they DOING.)
fuck streaming, fuck netflix, fuck spotify. crash and burn. topple like the house of cards you are.
the really stupid thing is that i feel like if i go and watch a film or read something for a few hours, that’s an isolated experience. i’m disconnected from the (vague) sense of community i feel online; i feel like i’m missing things.
but then i go back online and it’s the same garbage. even just 10 years ago it used to be good garbage, now it’s just stuff that irritates me
frfr, i can’t believe how many smug takes i saw about this the day it passed. left and right giddy to oppress the youth just because the dances are stupid
word searches are such a meaningless, joyless exercise too, all the words are already there. at least crosswords make it interesting
SEIS leches jeremy, SEIS? that’s insane
yeah all the cutesy jokes come off more annoying than just steadfastly calling it twitter like a normal person
zero reason ever for any piece of technology to know where i live and make my experience worse because of it
bear and pillow seem to have the most utility – having 100% good dreams must be incredibly blissful. but i do feel empty often as well
cough drops generally barely work for me and make my mouth feel and taste disgusting. sore throat numbing spray is where it’s at
one of the few upsides of gig jobs is that you aren’t generally bound by the traditional grind like this - if you’re feeling bad on a monday, you can take that day off; if you’re bored on a sunday you can work, etc etc. i genuinely don’t think i could handle the 9-5 M-F rote button down shit without having a psychic break after 2 months
genuinely remarkable how he gets more and more lame by the day. imagine having literal trillions of dollars, access to opportunities and experiences and pleasures we couldn’t even begin to fathom, and instead sitting down and writing this fucking garbage that would make a middle schooler cringe
do we have to post corporate tweets on lemmy
it’s too privacy focused, independent, and earnest at the moment
i don’t want them knowing desktop or mobile either. we all have good enough phones now to handle a proper website on mobile – mobile sites are fucking garbage.
steve jobs during the original iphone keynote did a whole segment on how you could load the full rich widescreen NYT website and zoom in and out and look at that rich text rendering. apps are ass, mobile sites are ass.
damn i should take a bath
geolocking is immoral. if they’re getting it why the fuck shouldn’t we?