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  • AcidOctopus@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    8 months ago

    I own a pair of Porta Pros as daily drivers. I also have a pair of Ananda’s that I run through a BTR7 (not super flashy but more than your average person’s setup).

    I would say the average person doesn’t need more than a pair of Porta Pros. They’re absolutely fine 😅







  • I have a very, very limited understanding of the subject, so take this with a lethal dose of salt, but I’m under the impression that the US healthcare system is an absolute minefield, and not everyone has equal access to it, even via insurance, in the ways you might otherwise typically expect.



  • Two days ago I noticed when watching through the app on my phone that I could no longer just skip ads, and the trick of reporting them to skip didn’t work anymore either. I effectively had to just sit and wait.

    That same day I got NewPipe, imported my subscriptions, and honestly even if this is just a phased trial or something, I won’t be going back to the standard YT app.

    Creators make pennies from ad revenue. If I want to support them, I’ll make a donation or subscribe to their Patreon or something.

    I won’t just sit and suffer a slew of ads while my data is harvested under the false pretense that it’s all to support the creators.




  • I’m sorry but this is some dystopian bullshit that’s all centred on the false premise that communities are anything other than the people who choose to count themselves among them and engage in them.

    Reddit is just the tool some communities chose to use to gather their members and communicate. That’s it. If a community decides that Reddit is no longer the appropriate tool for the job, they can leave and build their community elsewhere. That may be a bit of an oversimplification, given the resources and tools those communities might lose through the transition, but strictly speaking, Reddit can’t do anything to stop the members of any particular subreddit going elsewhere, and a cryptocurrency absolutely is not going to fucking facilitate the ownership or mobility of a community.

    It’s a bullshit form of control that they want their users to willingly bind themselves to. Suddenly you’re not just participating in a community, but you’re genuinely invested, tied to something with a perceived monetary value, that even if you can theoretically remove from Reddit and take elsewhere, won’t have any more value than people choose to place on it, and won’t represent the community that generated it in any meaningful way.

    It’s literally “Hey, the more you use Reddit, the more of our crypto you’ll earn, which could be worth more than zero one day! You better keep using Reddit, huh? You wouldn’t want to lose that potential for more than zero eh? In fact, why don’t you encourage more people to use Reddit too? Then they’ll generate their own crypto, and the more people use our crypto, the more it’ll be worth for everyone! See, if you get five more people to use Reddit, and those five people also get another five people each to use it etc etc etc…”

    The fuck out of here.