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MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World BetterEnglish
4·1 year agoTechnology has started to make it easier and easier to be anti consumer. To maximise how much you can extract out of consumers.
It is making it easier to understand and control exactly how they use products and services. This allows you to structure your price and offering to give them the minimum amount they’ll accept at the maximum price. Allows you to strip features out and offer them for extra. Allows you to hide things behind ongoing subscriptions. Allows you to better lock people into products and services, making it more difficult to switch/leave.
All of this was possible (and being done) before, but technology makes this so much easier/better.
Technologies often start out by making something easier for the consumer. But beyond the early stages, it’s all about making the world better - for the corporations developing and selling products and services.
Exactly!
This pretty much summarises it.
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History MonthEnglish
2·1 year agoA good alternative. I moved across too.
Youtube is the only thing there isn’t a really viable alternative to at this stage.
I’m out of the loop, what happened in January to cause that sudden growth?
I have an account but I’m not active. Just not much of a social media guy in general.
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•when did you stop using dial up internet?English
3·1 year agoMarch 2000. Bigpond Cable. Such a step up in speed (although I can’t remember what that initial cable speed was) and suddenly we were always connected.
I had a faster connection than anyone I knew at that time :)
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump is named Time’s Person of the Year and rings the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bellEnglish
8·1 year agoGreat, so we’re living in the modern equivalent of 1938. Hopefully next year doesn’t go on to be the equivalent of 1939 😬
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•German island to end ritual of spanking women with cow hornEnglish
3·1 year agoSuch an underrated show!
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?English
14·2 years agoI don’t disagree.
There is one forum I still participate in:
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/
It’s mostly tech-focussed and Australia-centric, but it does have other topics like sport, TV etc…
I wish there were more like this.
I hate that the bulk of online discussion is now owned/monopolised by a couple of huge corporations.
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•My Review of Halloween (1978)English
2·3 years agoThanks for the review. Added to my ‘to watch’ list!
Totally agree. Wish I hadn’t chosen the dream home perk
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Because it’s empty and I couldn’t be bothered mining resources and making stuff
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Because that house is in the middle of nowhere
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The Vanguard quest gave me a free penthouse in New Atlantis which I like better
But of course that penthouse is also empty and I don’t even have the option to make a double bed for some reason (sorry Sarah!)
So I just use my room in constellation as home.
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MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Kids and teens are inundated with phone prompts day and nightEnglish
14·3 years agoOnly kids and teens? Pretty much everyone around here has their head down starting at one.
(He says while scrolling through Lemmy on his phone…)
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AIEnglish
1·3 years agoIs this a surprise to anyone?
This was already my understanding when I got the first pre-release one in 2014.
In that time, it has mainly learned how to"dim the living area lights to 50%" and “set the AC to 22 degrees”. That is about 99% of it’s use.
Wonder if that’s helped it’s AI much…
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features | TechCrunchEnglish
1·3 years agoNice, I’ve been using it for years and didn’t even know about this feature!
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnightEnglish
15·3 years agoTrain goes onto ship, ship sails out, train continues on the other end :)
MusketeerX@lemm.eeto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality)English
2·3 years agoWhen I first joined I mainly used all to find communities I was interested in and then subbed to them.
Now that I have nearly 100 communities subbed, I mainly use the subscribed view, occasionally I’ll take a look at all, very rarely local.
Ha! We need an updated version of that song.
I still remember 1 Jan 2000. There did seem to be some sense of optimism about where things could go. At least for those of us lucky enough to live in stable, developed countries.
Cold war over, Russia and The West seemingly on the same side, China opening up, exciting new tech connecting us but no toxic social media yet…
But then… the dot com bust, 9/11, the GFC, toxic social media and the rise of “the algorithm”, Xi in China, Putin in Russia, a global pandemic…
Didn’t really go where we hoped, can we restore to a backup from 1999 and try again??
I’m not the OP, but I had wondered the same thing. After already seeing up the other *arr’s I couldn’t work out the point of Prowlarr.
Re your comment about resource constrained, I have just started using Sonarr and Radarr on a Pi4. They seem to work OK. Had installed but not set up Prowlarr yet. Hopefully that wouldn’t slow things down if I used it to sync the other apps.




Thanks dude, that’s very generous!
I mostly use other method/services, but was looking at trying out Jellyfin.
Being able to see your server makes it easy to see an example of how it works.
Thanks again!