His proof? a payslip from Alphabet.

“It can never happen here” - People who it inevitably happens to.

I wager that’ll end up dying off too.

As linux gets more popular, more laypeople are gonna be involved in its use. more laypeople means more issues solved and found, more support needed, more time and attention required, and thanks to everyone using discord any kind of easy to find alternative support is non-existent to any and all search engines, so all that supports gonna fall back on the distro creators and individual devs… and you will see consolidation of teams and packs just to handle the enormous and ever growing load, until you eventually end up with…maybe, generously, 1-3 packs that basically become a cartel.

and, with those 1-3 packs holding the bulk of users, they’ll eventually start dictating what others can and can not do, to stay in step with them and their services. Which will see more packs falling in line with dictates or just evaporating for refusing to play the game, and thus enshitification.

and pretending it cant happen will just blindly accelerate it happening.

because this is how things always go.

its one of the few things that has consistently gotten better so far

You forget that enshittification follows popularity and market share.

Which means that as linux gets more used, and more popular, the chance for its enshitification will increase exponentially.

Exactly.

I’d give anything to be a sugar baby to someone who’d regularly supply me with Royal Dansk.

I was told hyper independence is a sign of trauma

Oh, I know.

I think all stores are like that.

I bought a replacement part for my stove like 4 years ago from a local shop, and i still get emails *HEY, HEY, YOU LIKE STOVE PARTS RIGHT? HERES SOME AWESOME DEALS ON STOVE PARTS"

watch 30 videos on a subject that you’re super interested in.

Youtube: crickets

Accidentally click the wrong video and watch 3 seconds of it before going back and watching something else

Youtube: OH, YOU LOVE THAT THINK YOU ACCIDENTALLY CLICKED? YOU LOVE IT AND WANT TO SLEEP WITH IT AND RUB IT ON YOUR NIPPLES? WONDERFUL WE’RE GONNA DO NOTHING BUT SPEND THE NEXT THREE WEEKS SHOVING IT DOWN YOUR THROAT BECAUSE WE’RE SO MAGNANIMOUS.

because a lot of us have learned that, while we have to be there for everyone and everything, no one will ever be there for us no matter what.

So we endure and improvise.

Of course it was.

They were wrong. How are they going to know they are wrong if no one tells them?

Thats okay. you can be rest assured, theres plenty of people out there that don’t care about the harm they cause and will continue buying sony products and digital downloads, sustaining sonys anticonsumer practices for years to come.

/s

Exactly. I have been trying to hammer this into peoples heads for years.

its so easy for someone thats cold to throw something over them.

Someone thats hot cant do fuck all but boil in their skin and die.

Also, being moderately too cool is 10000% more comfortable than being even slightly too hot.

I wish it was possible to disable lumen. I have a feeling that alone is whats robbing FPS, and that alone is why a lot of ue5 games have resolution scaling forced enabled and cant be turned off

I bet things would look better, too.

Yes, summer child.

They also used to optimize for cards, too, to get the most performance for players. They don’t do that anymore, hence they only target the APIs and shit it out regardless of performance.

400 dollars was excessive for what is a 4 year old budget computer in a handheld form. 800 is just outright fucking stupid.

the gaming upgrade market was kinda ridiculous anyway.

We dont need new, more powerful GPUs every 12/16 months

GPUs should, like, a new GPU every 5 years at a bare minium. New Cards being churned out every year is why gaming is shit, because theres no time for devs to learn, to optimize…instead they just target apis and get it out, and tell us use DLSS/FSR3 if performance is shit, even at 1080p there are still games they expect us to use stupid ass scaling to make playable.

I have never hated an engine before UE5. But god it is just a steaming pile of unoptimized, bloated dogshit.

Look at Mr.Money bags over here, able to buy shit thats not just barely minimum requirements when it was new.

Yeah, that was towards the end of windows life, after win10s release… and it was added as a windows update package, and as a result was easily uninstallable.

and every news article i saw informing people about the telemetry update, also told people how to uninstall it