Annoying yes but at least these days there’s one check box in the settings that turns off the connection between likes in YouTube and YouTube music.

Freespace 2 with a force feedback joystick. When you got a bit too close to a capital ship’s beam weapon and the whole joystick started to shake. One of my most immersive experiences in a game.

Yes but it can do “cd…”

It amuses me that they believe that people who dislike Trump love Biden. They can’t seem to grasp that you don’t have to be fanatically loyal to the party leader.

I can’t understand why crunch time has become so normalised. There’s no other software development project where constantly failing to plan for the needed time requirement would be accepted. Crunch is a sign of bad project management, it isn’t normal.

Remembering Habe once saying in an interview that valve isn’t a public stock company because they want players as their customers, not stockholders.

Yepp, so as you say this is a question of medium, not reading.

Yes I agree, that’s what too often happen to me. Plus I can read a phone without using any hands. But op talked about dumbing down the reading and if they meant the medium, well there’s lots of things you can read on the internet as well.

You can’t? I find it to be a world of difference between reading a scientific reports and a youth novel for instance. Or some kind of classical literature compared to a comic book.

Agreed

By their logic games like civ with its turn based fighting “had no right to exist” because counterstrike is popular…

Some people just enjoy being able to plan their actions and having a bird’s eye perspective on things.

Agreed. I find it fascinating how hard it is for some people to understand the difference between “lawful” and “morally right”.

As much as I dislike Facebook I really don’t agree with the idea that they should pay for linking to news articles.

One could flip the argument in article and ask if having a post on Facebook is worthless for the newspapers, then why are companies paying Meta for ads on Facebook?

I also feel that this goes against the concept of the internet. If Facebook has to pay then why shouldn’t I when I’m linking to a page from my blog? Why shouldn’t Lemmy?

The problem for the rest of us is that big companies can handle the payment, and they can handle the admin for getting paid. The rest of us won’t get paid but we’ll all have to pay. The barriers for entry will only become bigger and only the big boys will be allowed to play.

I wish that I was that optimistic. The data AI:s are trained on can be just as faulty causing them to have “personal beliefs seep in”…

All these companies, including mine, are super profitable for most part but that is apparently not enough

It can never be enough when you’re worshiping Mammon. Anything less than all and even all it self is too little for them.

That’s great, that’s how it should be done.

Sure, but a good desk or chair can be quite expensive to buy. Sitting badly can really mess you up.

But the transportation of the employee isn’t a problem that an employer care about usually. The costs for office space on the other hand is just a saving that companies pocket and pass over to the employers. That’s why I feel that companies should give a stipend for the office space needed by the employee, including computers and screens of course.

The thing I don’t like is that so much of the cost cutting goes to companies. It’s not just the office space, it’s also furniture, electricity, water and so on.

While the worker save time and costs for transportation they usually don’t get any compensation for the wear and tear of their furniture or the need for extra space for work area.

I agree, it’ll also make a mess out of your “shared tab” on your drive. Me opening a document from som random doesn’t mean that I want it to bury the documents that has been actively shared with me, from my wife for instance.

Exactly this.

When a company can’t expand its market share anymore they will make the product cheaper, worse and more expensive.

For tech this means filling the product with bloat, upping the prices for consumers, and lowering their payouts to creators (subcontractors).

True enough. And the persons I described are also the least likely to care about the issue described in the article.