Then realize that YouTube was losing billions every year for over a decade, and that their current model is the only way it can be profitable for them 😅

I’m curious, could you elaborate on what this means and what it would accomplish if successful?

Can you imagine how exciting it would be though when this actually started to work? This probably started as a side project, with a dude saying like, nahhh this could never work.

Until suddenly it did

If I have mastodon, how and when can I follow Blue sky users? I read something about an adapter server or something, but I don’t know what that means in a practical sense.

Just checked, looks like they are wired. I get it for certain games, but generally I prefer the convenience of wireless.

Nah dude the red squiggly lines are actually CIA backdoors

Same. I’m playing a ton more games I had previously just sorta forgotten about.

It’s beautiful

Chex quest. I got this game in a cereal box back in 1996. It defined my childhood.

Now they have an HD version on steam. 10/10 good times.

https://www.chexmix.com/chexquest/

Add Nutella, enjoy?

I use proton VPN for torrenting. It doesn’t show I’ve downloaded anything. I think that means my VPN is working? 😅

The people here who 1) think a breakup of Google will actually happen, and 2) think that a paid subscription model for a search engine have all been spending too much time in their Linux bubble.

If Google did this, everyone would just switch to Bing, or open AI’s new thing they are making. The general public will not be on board with that.

Met a girl while being an English teacher in China. She was originally from New York. She had a very distinctive voice, very hard to forget.

Fast forward 10 years. I’m at the Santa Monica Pier playing Pokemon Go with my brother. Suddenly, THAT VOICE. I’m like… No… That isn’t possible. I keep on walking.

We reach the end of the pier, and turn around. And BOOM. There she is. We make eye contact, and are both like wtffff.

Turns out she moved there to do a podcast or something.

Anyway cool shit

When people say things like this, I wonder if they understand how impossible it is. Google is not just a company. It is a 2 trillion dollar entity. Even if Google search entirely fails, it will still persist. At this point, you may as well say, “The wind needs to be ended.” You don’t end the wind. The wind already won. It will outlive you, me, and our children.

What we can do is protect against it. We can deal with it. We can contain it. We can redirect it and repurpose it to be helpful. But ending it? That doesn’t happen.

Heck yes, hit half my protein goal in one go

A far shorter list would be the few that are not vulnerable

Sometimes I really don’t know if these posts are serious.

You aren’t going to get drone striked. There isn’t going to be a civil war.

Chill yo

Lol

Let’s say both then. Both the US and China are surveillance states, and that makes them both bad.

Btw just so you are aware, there is some underlying animosity toward people who defend China here. Usually people who defend China are just trying to deflect and try to say things like “BUT America does bad things!” While trying to make it seem like that somehow absolves China of genocide and mass surveillance.

The hard part for those people to grasp is that Americans are usually happy to say yes, America sucks. Any country that engages in those actions sucks. Diehard tankies on the other hand are incapable of seeing flaws in China/Russia/whatever country they feel the need to defend.

Could you clarify what you mean by snake oil?