Yep. A lot of these tech companies that have run in the red for years are now being called on to produce a profit and pay the big backers.

Apparently, SpaceX has special tactics to stoke his grandiose ego and trick him into giving them the freedom they need.

It’s a tale as old as bosses. Many of them have big egos and think that because they’re in charge that magically gives them expertise. So if you want to do something you either get them looking at something shiny or you make them think it’s their idea.

I had a boss like that ages ago. If I wanted to work on something out of the ordinary I would plant the idea, then a few weeks later I would remind him that he brought it up a while ago. I used the fact that he had a million things going on so he never really remembered who brought it up. I didn’t care that he got the credit because I got to work on cool things and expand my repertoire.

Yeah, Infinity hates it. I’ve still got a Firefox browser app pinned that works fine though.

And there’s no dead torrents. I could have probably added that too

Depends on your view. Some see it as a way to preserve media that could otherwise be gone forever. Some see it as a reasonable price to pay instead of paying 15 different companies hundreds per month. Others don’t mind supporting the individuals and small groups who run the servers but don’t want to support large corporations.

That video was the pinnacle of art. We should have just given up on society after it was done because nothing that comes after could possibly be any better.

Given how many guitar tabs archives are online today it's a shame what happened.

This is an anecdote because that site brought me back to another time. Feel free to skip it.

They have part of the OLGA archive there! Back in the day that was my go to. I had printed out multiple three ring binders full of tabs from there. When I would start working with new musicians I would put together a fakebook of 40-50 songs of the right style and just sit around and practice them.

That's how I went from being a terrible guitarist full of passion to a mediocre guitarist who could badly fake anything well enough that it's almost recognizable. It was such a great time.

I think the other side of that coin is that, for a lot of intellectual property, there are definitely people who want everyone to stop enjoying it. So you've got a bunch of loud mouth idiots who don't understand constructive criticism or criticism from a place of love. Then you have a bunch of other loud mouth idiots who believe that if something isn't exactly what they think it should be then it should be burnt to the ground so that it can get remade by someone else.

So reasonable people who are having a good time but still have some reservations are drowned out in the larger conversation.

My favorite is Stop Having Fun, Guys. Broken Base hits too close to home for too many franchises I enjoy.

So I went and looked. OP seems like a very unhappy individual. I found traces of the below plus a lot of the "whiney entitled gamer" archetype. I sure hope they find happiness someday.

It's Easy so it Sucks

It's Short so it Sucks

Unpleasable Fanbase

"Stop Having Fun" Guys

Who, me? Never.

It's my fault. I signed up for it before I realized it was a pro China instance and the other day I said I'm not a Communist.

I played Cyberpunk on Stadia. It was pretty good, no complaints from me. Stadia worked out really well in general for me.

I replaced it with a Steam Deck when it shut down. I used the money that Google refunded me and ended up not spending anything on it. I think BG3 was the first Steam purchase I made that didn't come out of the refund.

I liked cloud gaming. I may dabble in it again someday but I don't play often anyway and now I have a backlog so it'll be a while.

It’s also age dependent at the lower levels. Over 35 or 40 and you’ll pay more than someone young. Or at least that’s how it used to be.

I don’t know what the going rate is but I assume that if you just want a throw you could probably get a mid tier prostitute almost once a week for that price.

If I can just tell her how awesome my penis is she’ll fall madly in love! Right now she has no idea!

Yep. I like guns. I like old guns. I wouldn’t show up to someone’s job telling them to include me in their project unless I was invited.

I have a Tailscale subnet router set up locally and added the remote IPs to my router. Tailscale on every device was a crapshoot as to whether it would route locally or through the VPN.

I asked support and they said it should be on every device. Could be something else on my network forcing it to act like that but I don’t have enough give-a-shit in me to troubleshoot it.

I was specifically talking about what the original commenter said.

with proper support, privacy, customization options and no crap like ads

Dumb TVs are already a thing as mentioned elsewhere. Commercial Displays cost more but you can beat someone to death with them and they’ll still work.

I’m with you on hoping for more options. I’d hate for my next TV purchase (hopefully years from now) to be forced online under the guise of firmware updates to steal my viewing habits.