I wanted to go back to my Red Hat roots and installed AlmaLinux as a workstation, which defaults to GNOME and wow, I had to wonder, what happened? It's pretty awful. The mantra seems to be, "Let's just remove all the useful features and turn it into a shitty tablet-like experience." Really makes you appreciate the remaining customization features in Windows 11.
Why did you buy a fridge with a screen in the first place?
Who cares? Apple might finally release a touchscreen MacBook Pro!
That's what they did with discotheques
ROOSTA:
[Shouts] Beeblebrox!! All these dancers! They’re robots!!
ZAPHOD:
[Shouts] They’re just to make the place look crowded!! Give it some atmosphere!!
ROOSTA:
[Shouts] But there aren’t any real people here at all!!
ZAPHOD:
[Shouts] So what’s new?!
I guess it works... ad impressions = sales, targeted ad impression = more sales
We're probably outsiders who have been using adblockers for decades, but for normies who can barely distinguish "sponsored content" from a genuine, organic post... it's open season.
BitchX?
Nah, if you do that, then you just go to jail without a trial. Or your connected car mysteriously drives into a pole with the airbags disabled. Whoops!
We did in Canada and it's going great!
Ah so it's an "iconic" quote that we're expected to be familiar with.
Yes you can watch it without a licensed device but only at reduced quality, similar to watching in a web browser with DRM disabled.
Is this an ad?
But... this other ad disguised as an article says Apple TV+ is the new HBO!
https://www.wired.com/story/ap...
How can I, as a lowly consumer, make an informed decision and choose the one that's best for me?
Not if you want to watch Netflix
This has actually been a major problem for Roku. If I'm bored enough to watch some of their free-to-stream channels, I'll often get ad breaks with no ads, just a countdown timer says "We'll be back in a few minutes," or I'll just see ads for other Roku channels which are obviously just filler content. I assume this is because they don't have any paid advertisers who want to target me. If the problem is that producing ads is just too expensive for a lot of potential advertisers, this is going to be an interesting change to the viewer experience.
What next, AI voters?
Yeah that's the sad part, I wonder what these companies could've produced if they weren't acquired and put through the corporate wringer. They don't necessarily need to turn a profit to make great radio dramas, maybe they could've made great content and just managed to cover costs.
The Tao is like a stack: the data changes but not the structure. the more you use it, the deeper it becomes; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
