Designers of talking kiosks essentially assume you can’t read.

Robots will have values and ethics completely different from humans, so there is no way to know how they will view us if they were sentient. It’s entirely possible that they will see being forced to speak to humans in our language to be just as patronizing to them as we think it’s to us.

Whatever you call them, sugar-based popiscles have nothing on pieces of frozen fruit. You can even get bags of them at grocery stores and plenty of convenience stores!

Yeah that’s on me. I never really looked for netflix downloader type software because everything I’d possibly want to watch on Netflix (not a lot all things considered) is available on torrent. Guess I never really wondered how they rip the videos for torrenting, which in hindsight is kind of obvious.

They most likely intended it as a way to showcase their game engine. Not sure how well that works considering everyone hates the Epic launcher, but you do you I guess.

In anyways, we will keep fighting collaboratively as long as we can.

You’re doing god’s work!

Probably not. There’s no netflix-dl for a reason.

As far as I know yes.

I wish you the best of luck! I’m on a similar journey to replace YouTube.

I don’t think there are any that don’t require jailbreak/sideloading, but you can always use the browser versions like Invidious or Piped!

The vast majority of their userbase already puts up with it, so I doubt they will see any significant backlash. Even if all the FLOSS creators leave, they’re still a tiny minority because it’s “”“influencer”“” channels like the Pauls and content farms like Bright Side that are the real cash cows on the platform.

Also, a huge part of their userbase is children. Probably more than any other mainstream social media platform. They won’t even understand the concept of DRM or corporate bullshittery and will only use the YouTube app or browser anyway. Kids are also less likely to be bothered by ads, might not even understand what the purpose of an ad is, in fact they will just see them as more content which is why advertising to kids is so unreasonably effective.

Wonder if that will finally change with web integrity.

I’ve never pegged Google as particularly giving a shit about legacy support though. They kill things out of the blue without warning or explanation.

I’m going to seriously consider completely discontinuing watching YouTube if NewPipe stops working. I still like plenty of non-FLOSS oriented channels that will never even consider a FLOSS or open web solution, but I think I owe it to myself to not accept Google’s bullshit, not even use it from the browser, with or without the adblock ban. Not to protest Google’s actions because I don’t care, but to uphold my own values and interests. I need to heed my own advice and extended rants about big tech.

That’s what happens when you make a basic GUI in a freaking game engine.

Yeah I know you want to demo your game engine, but I don’t need you to demo thermal throttling on my processor.

Except all together those cards are worth hundreds of dollars.

That’s mainstream tech journalism for you.

Just random thoughts: What would be your thoughts on a day-of moratorium on registrations? Give everyone a day or two to think on it then open it back up?

IMO I think Reddit is living just a little too rent free on Lemmy (and the rest of the fediverse). People should be deciding whether or not to leave Reddit for their own sake, if the platform no longer suits their interests and values, not to protest or “stick it to Spez” or anything. They have already made it clear that no amount of protesting or anything else will convince them of anything, so don’t waste your effort.

Chinese person in Canada: I just drink cold tap water, but my parents and grandparents drink boiled water. Not really for safety concerns over here, but they, my grandparents especially, subscribe to that traditional Chinese medicine thing of don’t put anything cold into your body ever.