The same way “anyone” could make an HTML5 compliant browser. The reality is you can’t do it unless Google lets you.

I don’t trust Pornhub. According to them, every family is filled with step-members who want to fuck each other.

On a more serious note, if I go to your site and search for femboys or twinks and end up getting bears and otters, no es bueno. Please fix that.

Welcome! It’s been pretty quiet around here lately but hopefully things will pick up.

Personally, I’m semi-retired, but looking to go back to work part time. Sitting at home is driving me crazy.

To be fair, if I had more than $1M, I wouldn’t introduce myself to neighbors.

Trump demands loyalty from anyone who works for him, but he’ll throw them to the dogs to save his own ass. Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani, Scaramucci, Bannon, and plenty of others are no longer part of the inner circle.

Hegseth is getting off easy; He’ll probably get a streaming or podcast deal out of this.

I know I’m officially old when I’m constantly remembering how much stuff used to cost.

When I got my first job as an adult, I budgeted in 1 fast food meal a week, usually a Burger King Whopper combo at $4.75 American. Now, even though inflation calculators confirm it, paying $10.00+ for a fast food meal seems like highway robbery.

I know I shouldn’t complain; I live way better now than I did in an Army barracks, but I just hate spending that kind of money.

On the bright side, phone service got cheaper. It used to be $20.00 for a land line, and you paid for long distance calls. Now I pay $50 a month for unlimited calls&text +10Gb data, and no getting disconnected if someone picks up the phone in the household.

Cable TV was $50 in 2000. Now I pay $60-$80 for internet and choose whatever streaming service I want, if I want. No more paying for sports I won’t watch - sorry Disney/ESPN.

I guess I should just cut my losses and call it a draw.

My biggest pet peeve is with HTML 5. There is no reason on Earth that a website should know if I’m using an adblocker; HTML 5 makes it so. No reason a website should be able to find my home address, even through a VPN; again HTML 5. The list goes on.

Everyone gushes over how great open-source is and how it’s going to save everything. HTML 5 is totally open, but it was hijacked by Google. They made it so complex and obfuscated that no one can implement a fully compliant browser without relying on Google code.

I remember when nobody associated with Optimus was a billionaire.

[looks wistfully off into the distance]

I figured it was. Pretty convincing right down to those annoying black sneakers with white soles that tech billionaires seem to love nowadays.

Their motivation is staying away from open platforms, and protecting their members’ IP rights. Gotta thwart those pirates.

AMD is nearly 100x the size of Valve, and they couldn’t get HDMI 2.1 approval on Linux. Nvidia somewhat has it with their proprietary drivers, but not nouveau.

At least one person got the joke. 😁

“We need to develop a one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.”

For me, it’s that he put profits over people. https://decentfoot.com/how-many-people-died-over-michael-jordan-basketball-shoes/

Sneaker related violence was a big deal a few decades ago in the US, and Air Jordans were at the center of it. He apologized plenty for it, but never actually changed anything.

Shaq and Stephon Marbury were big NBA stars, but they sell their shoes for like $25, because they don’t want to fuck people over.

Kind of obscure, but Centralia, a town that had to be evacuated because there’s a coal mine burning under it.

I know, right? I made a typo in my post - that bathroom is right next to where the dining table would be.

I’m a bachelor, and I guess it’s fun having room to walk around, play with RC cars and stuff, but it seems impractical for families.

Fair enough. I do see people install TVs above their fireplace of their own free will. They just see other people doing it and think “that’s what I want!”

What’s bullshit about content creators? I enjoy watching documentaries from The History Channel or The Learning Channel. If someone does a bunch of research and self-publishes a documentary, they’re somehow less valid?

The article isn’t about anybody “making money off the fediverse”. It’s about finding a way to make the fediverse viable, considering that everybody wants to use it, but nobody wants to donate.

Thanks for bringing it up. Nobody likes to talk about money in the Fediverse, but it’s a fact of life.

I’ve stopped making Peertube videos lately mainly because I got tired of donating. We’ve got to come up with a better solution.