Wtf is this thinking.

Open Ai wouldn’t use something or someone without consent? There’s a plethora of lawsuits and evidence that they did that with pretty much every medium out there.

I dislike this sentiment. Just because something is FOSS or open source, doesn’t mean it’s not harvesting your data or doing something nefarious.

Anyone have a non-paywalled link?

Okay, wow.

You do know rent is just someone with a mortgage on a house too right? (Paid off or not)

And if that landlords mortgage goes up, that will also make the rent they charge go up. ( Often far more than the rent, as it’s percentage related. So, if your friend was renting, he’d be even worse off…

So, what you’re saying is… Is house rates went up on his mortgage right?

And because of that he became poor?

So you’re saying your right with the assumption that if he rented his rent wouldn’t also double??

AI isn’t new. Algorithms “are” ai. All apps always used it. But it’s changed from algorithms to AI.

Lemmy users don’t respond well to reasonable criticism or facts.

Only toxic and stupid comments allowed.

No disgusting UI trying to make you watch other shite that is clearly a failure.

No scrolling threw pages down to just get down to the “continue watching” section.

No advert between each episode that isn’t an “ad” screaming the same scene for their next original failure.

No shite algorithm recommending me the next show I’m clearly not interested in

I class myself as a power user, other than Galaxy Store (which is also seem mostly as bloatware) is not offered on any non-samsung phone set up.

The Amazon App Store is acceptable but also gated

That doesn’t sound like any main stream user can access that.

Why are you mad about this?

Google absolutely does.

Name me 4+ more Android app stores you can use?

Okay? And physical stores don’t? This isn’t news and doesn’t address your claim whatsoever? It doesn’t compare spotify vs indi labels.

Discoverability, publishing, advertising, gigs etc.

Wohh there, that’s a lot of claims with 0 proof.

Can yo source any of that?

Trump is not a good (if at all) businessman.

You’re completely right. People suck steams dick are ridiculously hypocritical and blond.

I was mocked for defending Epic trying to compete withs steam. They’re doing great work for Devs and gamers. But sadly, blind gamers (who claim they hate monopolys) aren’t self aware enough to see the trees through the forest.

There are some amazing apps and even web apps now

Stardew valley too.

Then there’s factorio.

Then there’s any super giant game.

Then there’s, frankly, just indie games in general.

Fuck triple aaa

Linux one, I wasn’t aware of but that does suck.

Unfortunately, due to the behaviours of the audience they are trying to gain that is likely the best and cost effective way to gain new users. But I do totally agree their launcher sucks ass and needs work.

Care to elaborate why you’re calling them Evil Games?

They are better for developers via unreal engine.

They are better for both developers and publishers via the markets lowest cut of earnings via their store front.

They pay well to try break steams monopoly. If anything, steam are the bad guys via their extortionate cut. (30%)

They are better for indie Devs on Fortnight compared to Roblox.

They do everything better than most… so place your anger correctly. I’m sick of people hating on epic while they’re the only company trying to beat the monopolys…

Let me frame this another way.

Google is monopolistic and kills any other competitor from competing. Thus preventing consumer choice.

Google is already one of the biggest companies in the world. I’ve never given them a penny in my 2 decades of service use. Yet the line goes up.

They exist because of us the consumer.

They also don’t pay, let alone treat, their creators fairly. Although they are 99% the reason they exist.

Yet Google wants more because line must go up.

There are other services I pay for such as nebula, float plane, patron specifics. But not all creators can sustain that. And I doubt it I pay for YouTube that will change. Because spoiler alert. YouTube don’t pay well. It’s sponsors and merch that keep creators alive.