laughs in Russian

Great! Sail bravely, for we’re heading into the exciting waters of the future!

Rarr!

Us neither, I just converted

They’re all screwing you over so bad, it’s 1,20€ in my country

This entire tipping thing is terrible - including for dashers themselves.

It means dashers income heavily relies on strangers being kind enough to leave some extra.

It means customers are gonna feel bad for not paying more than their order amount (and they probably will pay the tip)

It means company can employ slave labor for extremely low pay and still have people willing to do this.

Tipping benefits only one party - the companies. We need to stop it.

There is a demand, and there is a supply. Decentralization trends lead more and more people to self-host, and you can’t get around it any other way.

But also self-hosted (the central server, i.e. “lighthouse”) and open-source

Damn I imagined this

We need a movie about it

I’d argue you still have one skeleton if you lose limbs or teeth.

Amount of skeletons is an integer representing the anount of bone structures holding and protecting human body (or whatever’s left of it).

The real question is, how much of which parts of skeleton can we lose with it still being skeleton instead of a set of bones?

In my area ethanol got literally inaccessible.

Don’t know what the hell is going on, but we survive off reserves, and save as much as we can.

Recommending Linux is good; forcing it down someone’s throat is not.

If parents are just comfy using Windows, it’ll get them super frustrated when they’ll face new issues coming from Linux use, as you just can’t turn Linux into Windows and they never asked for it.

Now, if they complain about all the shit Windows throws at them, you can offer an alternative.

As a person who just paid a fuckton of money to publish in open access (literally half an hour ago), that HURTS.

Open Access is good, but first we have to abolish an entire publisher industry that lays insurmountable costs - either on readers or researchers themselves. Their work is not remotely worth that money. By making it a public good, we can cut down on so much unnecessary expenses.

Besides what another commenter noted about indistrialization being product of capitalism and then fierce competition, here’s one more thing:

Do you see all those green activists buying reusable bags? Taking their bottles, recycling everything? Well, this has already been there in the past, and most notably - in socialist countries. Pretty much till its death USSR, for example, heavily favored reusable things, there just weren’t plastic bags and plastic bottles and all that waste, and recycling, especially of glass and metal and paper, was a super normal thing and people got money/trade-in for that.

Your analogy is not entirely correct.

As a viewer, I do not demand producers to create remakes or enhanced versions. They do it themselves - to take profits off relatively easy work, compared to, you know, producing a new great film or whatnot.

The correct comparison would be me writing a book and selling it, and then writing an appendix to this book and selling it separately with a solid price tag.

If I’m an honest author, I’d post updates freely, so that people who already own the book would have important data and wouldn’t use incorrect results from there. It would affect my reputation if I’d do otherwise, too.

In my real case, I can publish an update, and yes, it will be free. This is a standard for scientific articles, open or not, and many even have easy links for version updates, containing all corrections.

And my boss pays me because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to produce the first result to begin with.

Also, the very idea of digital media is to be accessible and not transient. You can save and backup data and it will be there, in its original form, forever. Updates in art are entirely optional and often unasked for.

I still don’t get where you’re going with that. Pointing out that in the past physical media did a little bit of the same, draining fans of money with re-releases that just added what’s been cut or were enhanced in other ways? Then that’s same as, say, DLCs: a small amount of work draining much more money than it’s worth, just as means of squeezing more cash from fans while making the base thing affordable for a wide audience. It’s just about maximizing profit way beyond the point of payback. Greed, essentially, and nothing else.

As per How I Met Your Mother, I kinda felt the ending to be somewhat natural, even though it seems like they didn’t think it through well to begin with. And yes, it’s super cruel to kill Ted’s wife - she’s extremely nice and suits him better and I get your feelings. But this is also a very logical plot twist, and the ending feels…like it should’ve been. I just knew it’d end up there.

And as per ethics, everything I produce (I work in scientific field) I hold no rights to, and they either belong to a company, sadly (on one job that actually pays me enough to survive), or are in the public domain (open access scientific articles, available for everyone in full text). I wish it would all be the latter. I do not want to retain copyright on anything I make, and I wish for it in general to be abolished. And until that’s not the case, I’m comfortable breaching it forcefully.

If you purchase something and you can’t just download it, move it wherever you want and watch it there with no limitations, you didn’t purchase it.

So you’re saying you want one show, and you pay subscription to see it, but then, if you want to watch it again, you have to pay subscription again, and at that point the “paying subscription for a show” model kinda breaks.

I absolutely didn’t get your argument on digital media. Film is not a stage performance - the former is recorded once, the latter needs to be manually recreated every time. Every performance is a lot of labor, and it needs to be paid. Every film view is literally nothing.

And yes, I personally have an ethical system strictly opposed to this, and, really, business/corporate greed in general, and I don’t think I’m alone here. And in the digital space, we can pack a punch.

Slave aliens built the pyramids, noted

You know what’s actually cool?

While many suppose that majority just moved back, they didn’t! Less than half of users actually left Lemmy after an exodus, and now about what, 95% of users?..are actually from there.

AFAIK is a very established and widely recognized acronym with decades of history. Just saying.