But that runs counter to my need as a developer to bulldoze the entire area, build mcmansions 6 inches apart from eachother and at the barest mimimum of code (and perhaps even lower with a $$friendly$$ inspector), and then plant like a grand total of 5 trees that wont survive the first year.
Oh, and also pave everything over. Gotta pave everything over. No one wants green space! /s
Yep. They want you to use apps, cause all the permissions you give the app makes it much easier for them to harvest all your data for marketing and selling purposes.
Loyalty cards werent a great thing either.
They werent to reward your loyalty, they were to tie your purchase history to an individual, So that information can be used and sold for marketing purposes.
It was basically the prototype for the invasive, information stealing apps we have today.
everyone wants to force you to use apps instead of websites, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of apps are just websites…in a app wrapper, because normal websites and normal browsers have inbuilt protections for you.
Apps don’t.
Idiots install apps, give them the 400,000 permissions they ask for, then go on their merry way…ignorant to the fact that they just installed a data vacuum on their phone thats siphoning everything off of it to be used and sold and resold for marketing purposes… Even the phone itself its not safe, cause its sitting there, listening to your conversations, even when not on a call, to more “Accurately” spam you with bullshit.
I thought this was about a different obsidian lol
ebooks have managed to pull the same scam that game developers pulled on gamers 20 years ago.
“ebooks will be cheaper! and with the fact that we wont have to pay for printing, shipping, storage, etc, You’ll pay a lower price while the author/publisher still receive more money than they would have from the physical book! its a win/win for everyone!”
aaaand then as soon as they were accepted ebook prices became the same (or near enough) price as the physical version, and in a few rare cases, even more expensive. Resulting in the massive promised profits for publishers, and maybe authors, but no gain but lots of demerits (like obnoxious drm, and shit like amazon going onto your device to delete it cause they lost the rights or something, which has happened) for end users/readers
And thats first party, brand new books.
There is no second hand market for ebooks, like there is from physical. Si theres no browsing a place like Half Price Booked or whatever to find something that isnt in your normal wheel house but thanks to being pre-owed, its cheap enough to roll the dice on.
Been here 2 years. Its just as easy to use as its always been.
I dont know where this sudden anti-lemmy “OMG ITS TOO HARD TO USE CAUSE WORDS ARE HARD I PREFER (insert site with same exact fucking usability” misinformation/propaganda has come from in the past few weeks, but its patently absurd and obviously fake.
the internet was better when it was anonymous, where you were explicitly and forcefully told that no one should know anything about you but your handle.
well, not all of them.
I can think of a handful I would much rather see thrown into a furnace.
Suikoden
You are just upset that he has escaped to the one place that hasnt been corrupted by capitalism…SPAYSHEH
Something about slow mo shooting hitlers one testicle with xray vision with a sniper rifle just makes the day seem brighter.
the rubes do get so very hostile when they are told the truth.
Gotta protect the fragile ego instead of admit you fell for something.
its a pump and dump ponzi. Its digital Bernie Madoff for the new millenium.
all of them are. Every single one.
Yes even the one you, dear reader, like. Especially the one you like.
anyone with a functional brain and a flash of cognitive self awareness hates crypto.
cause its a fuckin scam designed to screw over rubes.
the “currency” is rife with scammers because the “currency” is a scam.
its a pump and dump ponzi. Its digital Bernie Madoff for the new millenium.
all of them are. Every single one.
Yes even the one you, dear reader, like. Especially the one you like.
Thats why they are so unstable.
And its also why anyone that tried to use them as currency abandoned it almost as soon as they started, because losing 20% of your transaction in the 5 seconds the transfer and processing takes isnt a deal anyone but the most desperate to stay in the shadows criminals are going to accept.
man the feel of cartridges in sleeves just activates all the happy neurons in my brain.
I wish we could go back to those days.
“You’re a cultist!” screamed the cultist, angry at people for using something other than what the cultist prefers.