That’s expected, that’s not news.

Exactly. We spent four years playing into their hands, its going to take us decades to recover from that mistake.

Why make money if you can make MORE money?

Ask Texas how that’s goin.

https://www.statista.com/chart/6780/only-5-countries-have-a-bigger-gdp-than-california/

It’s gdp is more that france

Honestly, so long as people keep buying their phones they really don’t care about this kind of stuff. Sure, it was a way to drive up margins for a while, but they will just move onto their next bag of tricks to make it hard to leave.

This can be handled a few different ways.

• You can boot from a HDD and then just not ever write data back to it. This would be the most trivial solution, and it’s something people do with their Pi’s a lot to avoid SD card failure.
• You could network boot, pull the OS from the network at startup. Fun fact, this is how some rockets fly! No onboard persistent storage needed. Everything boots into and runs from ram the whole 10 ish minutes of operation.
• You COULD do a ROM as you suggested, but that’s a LOT of ROM. Seems odd to do imho.

I feel like lack of ownership of more and more things in our lives is a sign of problems. Sure, this is just a silly game. But this kind of shit is already hitting cars.

Which is why we need meaningful consumer protections around this. Something with teeth to force publishers to back these sorts of things.

Aye, but forcing them to put a clear “We support this until this date” label will make that a mandated part of their marketed.

That or, you know, force companies to release server software when they sunset support for their product. That would also be nice.

Provided the pressure is maintained from the outside, mine would work fine with a match.

Give the rapid churn in their code base these days, I’m gonna press X to doubt that.

What’s the watts-per-search of google?

Right? Let’s see this pass rigorous muster first.

When the US pulled out the Taliban didn’t have to fight to take control. The population was ready and willing to put them back into power.

This was the choice the country made. It’s not our place to step into their internal politics at this point. The US did that for years and they decided very clearly they didn’t want that.

That and insane production budgets. A lot of stream services are dumping hundreds of millions into shows that… Really didn’t need that?

Sorry, I seem to be out of the loop, who’s that and what did they do?

Makes me wonder how long before we see translation AI that approximates your voice. Not great for AAA game, but better than nothing.

You can make a federated link by going !canvas@toast.ooo rather than posting the link, makes it much easier for users to join from LW!

Wikipedia isn’t a social platform. I suspect that their text growth was log(n) or something of the like. The only new text are things that are literally new or updates.

Lemmy has no cap there. The amount of new text will grow in some proportion to the user base. The more users and more instances, the more text. To say nothing of duplication from cross posting when you get wonky cuts in the federation connections.

None of this is free and it’s going to be a problem if Lemmy grows.