Agreed, because for most practical purposes there are only two valid distros in the first place (apt-based and pacman-based)

You can’t sell EV’s because:

1: too expensive to buy new 2: if you live anywhere that’s not a big city, or you have a garage, there is basically no electric chargers for you.

The city I live in (~30k people) has 6 chargers total. None of them are superchargers. Wait times are already a sticking point in the best case, nevermind what the wait times would be if everyone where I’m at had an electric car tomorrow. The whole downtown would maybe gridlock just because of people waiting.

For comparison, there are probably 2-300 gas pumps around the city. 5 gas stations within 5 minutes of where I am, all with at least 8 pumps, all well used. People are not going to get EV’s unless there is an infrastructure that is equivalent to gas around where they live.

And that infrastructure is not gonna be fun to get going.

The average person living in the city can’t really use them with street parking, can’t always guarantee a spot after all, and installing a personal one for yourself all but requires a personal garage, which locks out the people who live in poorer housing.

Lots of people in my city and I suspect many others live in trailer parks with low/fixed incomes, having just a simple driveway. Where are they gonna get the thousand or two to install a Level 2 charging station? My mom and dad certainly don’t have the money.

Expecting the EV companies to make the infrastructure with the money they get just from selling EV’s is gonna turn into one gigantic chicken-and-egg problem. The government is going to have to do it, and anyone who’s not living along an interstate can see just how much benefit they are personally getting from it so far… (hint: none)

Porn has done it for dozens of years at this point, and it has just become not only an expectation, but just a thing that gets picked up.

I don’t have any trust whatsoever for any company, or the government, to be the decider of what counts as “mis/disinformation”.

Sometimes there are easy layups, like “the Holocaust did not happen” and “Vaccines have 5G chips inside them” which are obviously just wrong and I think most of us would agree not to have…

But what about “The Holocaust was overblown and the jews should stop whining about it”? I and probably 99% of people would say that’s a stupid opinion, but is that “misinformation”? Should a company be allowed to ban you for saying it?

How about things like the 13/52 statistic? Should that be removed? What about “42% of all transgenders commit suicide”? That’s used to attack that group a lot, should that be banned as well?

And, to be honest with you, the Democratic Party is absolutely obsessed with using clinical terms like those mentioned to stifle all discussion and act like they are the only voice on the issue you’re allowed to believe. Republicans freak out about this for good reason.

It’s always the Democratic side that gets conservative opinions that they think are bad (whether lies or otherwise), boot them off the platform, and then decide to trample all over their new platforms and get them killed off too. It’s never just “pRiVaTe CoMpAnY tHeY cAn dO WhAt ThEy WaNt MaKe YoUr oWn WeBsiTE”, it’s “you are not allowed to have a place to speak this idea that I think is bad for society anywhere on the internet”. I really, really do not want to embolden that sect more than they already are.

This would be scary except for the part where I think many of these young activists would honestly rather have their whole search history read in court than vote for Trump.

If it’s those two guys again, the election will go exactly the same way as last time, because 99.9% of Americans will have already decided before the first presidental debate even happens.

I know I’ve already decided that I’m not gonna bother come 2024 if those two are back. But I’m more apathetic about politics than the average Tlaib listener. They will almost certainly fall in line the instant the primaries are clinched.

Took long enough. What the hell was the holdup?

Copyright has always traditionally required there to be some sort of direct linkage to the source material, like “This has X character that I own in it” or “This is like X story I made, except Y and Z were changed”.

Generative AI for the most part doesn’t do that. There is no line to draw from their pictures to the AI’s pictures. The lawsuit that maybe stabs these programs in the back would be a big artist claiming that they used the research LAION training set, knowingly, to create a product that copies their style exactly via their labeling of works with their name, and thus reducing their way to make money. Whether that has enough basis in law to work… debatable.

But “This work it generated violated my copyright” is for sure not the way to get them.

Don’t like the concept, stop using the service. It’s that simple.

But also that annoying, because this model where your ““tip”” becomes a bribe is a cancer upon society that needs to be eliminated.

Hmm, wonder why. Couldn’t be price increases on everything in existence.

Buy a social media company because you know there’s no way you’ll ever make one naturally

Claim that it’s too full of bots and try to walk out, despite having already signed the deal

Treat your new employees almost like slaves because apparently sleeping at the office is a reasonable proposition

Rebrand the social media network for no good reason, tanking value

Drive advertisers away by changing the algorithm that helped make site so good

Lose millions in company net worth and become an internet laughing stock

…Have the bright idea to save the company by also making it a… banking provider…

?!

ChatGPT? You should see the people addicted to c.ai, they have them beat by miles.

The people running the instances (currently) don’t run their sites as a business.

The federated protocol itself makes no difference; lemmy.world is a good 70% of the content and could essentially run this part of the fediverse if it wanted to, as it is close to a monopoly already.

Thankfully, they aren’t greedy owners. They are fine with it “losing money” and not running ads and such.

By the time he was CEO it was already dead. He was right to kill it.

I have my doubts that a three-horse phone race would have been stable in the first place, as one of those three (Android, iPhone was too established) would have likely fallen out of favor. And then, you all would be complaining about monopolistic practices Microsoft would inevitably be doing.

Google is not a good company, but they have treated Android much better than they could be.

Ah yes, I definitely had “Republican party needs to call Trump to help decide who needs to be the leader of their constituency so they can govern” on my 2023 bingo card.

Man, this is just a never-ending disaster for the conservate wing, but they totally deserve it for pointing at the far-left Congresspeople and saying how not united the Democrats are.

In a more reasonable government this would be at least a 4 party system, but no chance ever of that with FPTP.

They should put the clown music on every time they come up for a vote. Would be fitting for how much of a clusterfuck the Republican party is right now.

And they were supposed to be the “united” ones…

Figma Bal-

Uhhh… I mean yeah, screw Adobe, go Open Source! Screw Monopolies!

(To be honest, I never heard of Figma or Adobe XD, their supposed competition, until this acquisition)

Man everybody’s hiking up prices. Where’s the money gonna come from to pay these, though? Considering thanks to inflation a lot of us have to use that money for more important things like… food.

About everyone (including several news sites) have produced false/misleading claims about who launched which rocket and how many were killed and all the other stuff, because this fight is messy, and both sides want to look good.

How many of those misinformers just copied from another source that’s supposed to be more trusted?

As if teenagers would actually go on a service that forces them to upload a government ID.

You could say the same thing about posting on Lemmy. Or a new game in your favorite RPG series coming out. Or Starbucks’ newest coffee flavor. Or any number of other comforts.

This is the “don’t be depressed, starving children in Africa have it worse” kind of argument. Please don’t.