This is the most upsetting part. If you're a solo artist without a label, you need what's essentially a million listens to break minimum wage. For bands, and anyone with a label, even that's practically out of question. This shit is why everyone sells 75$ t-shirts at shows

Submitting someone else's life's work, as proof of the trademark being used, is such a cunt move from Oracle. No surprise though, they've been doing this for a very long time now

If something's finally going to force the industry to curb its bullshit, this might just be it. Once you annoy normal people, it's all over. They seriously underestimate how many people would just stop using Spotify, or Youtube, or whatever other platform it is

Just like with everything else F/OSS, the issue is always either funding, availability of skill, time conflicts, or lack of interest. Plus with a lot of these devices, it’s not super simple. More often than not, while you do get the kernel source, there’s still proprietary shit that the device won’t work without

The “Apple Intelligence” sign in my local mall is literally bigger than the entrance to the actual area where they sell their stuff.

Or even just generally, any retail tech area now shows “ai enhanced” under every device, so what’s the point in the marketing

It means whatever the shareholders wanna hear, because they slobber each others knob for literally fucking anything, that sounds like it’ll make money from a pump and dump

I've been using the same tube of Arctic mx-4 for a decade now, and it has yet to fail me

It’s already really difficult to engage with the content you want to see, but now they’re also taking away the only immediately noticeable metric of a successful video? Genuinely just why

It's illegal when a regular person steals something, but it's innovation and courage, when a huge corporation steals something. Interesting how that works

Cancel your sub and don’t renew it. This shit will only continue getting worse if people continue paying for it

Working for these companies lost any charm, when it stopped being about innovation, and working on cool things, and started being about min-maxing profits, at the cost abusing workers until they are suicidal

DisplayPort already exists