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If you ride a bus without a ticket, other passengers will have to pay more because upkeep and salaries are more or less a fixed cost. That is if you can afford the ticket, it's irrelevant otherwise. Also depends on profit margins but I think it explains the point.

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I was merely explaining how one comes to this line of thinking which is what OP was asking about. I also mentioned some holes in this logic so I think it's clear it's not an opinion I actually hold.

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Even on gaming subs it seems like every other post results in a discussion about the evils of capitalism.

I think it depends on community, I avoid all .ml ones for that reason. Don't get me wrong, I could go on about evils of capitalism for hours if prompted but the real issue is that most of the user base is 13 years old either in their actual age or mentally so you're seeing same performative cynicism over and over again. I'm also getting a feeling that over last 3-4 months it got much worse.

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It's the common spaces / topic-based communities that are mostly affected by this so there's no escaping this if you're here for the news etc

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I'd say Putin is a product of society that allows anything as long as you don't rock the boat and steal only from the people you're allowed to.

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That was my point though. Soviet / post-soviet countries are effectively very hyperindividualistic despite enforced societal conformance. There's this perceived ingenuity where people will go great lengths to come up with clever ways of skirting the law. It's what makes it incredibly hard for society to become mature enough to rely on systemic solutions to problems and gives way to authoritarian rule.

Piracy is fine and mostly harmless but I don't like idolizing it because there can be a really dark undertone to it.

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Early V1 can be soft modded which is much more hassle-free, new ones require a modchip.

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Kbin support in Lunar is very rudimentary and read only. The app itself hasn't been updated in 2 months so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Is it possible to get a virtual credit card for a different country?

I wanted to get my mom YouTube Premium for her birthday but don't want to pay the ridiculous annual price for my country (especially since she mostly just watches YouTube shorts). She uses an iPhone so trying to get adblocker would be too much of a hassle, especially if it stops working. She won't be able to figure out how to...

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Correct me if this changed but you can pay for premium in India with a regular card, you just have to provide fake billing address. I've been doing this for years now so maybe I'm grandfathered into some old payment scheme but I'm fairly sure my gf did this recently too when she had to switch from Argentina.

What is going on with Kbin ( kbin.melroy.org )

I almost feel like it's October last year, when I pled for improvement on all fronts regarding the Kbin development strategy. Now it seems development has ceased once again and there hasn't been chat on the matrix channels for over a week. Update: that's two weeks now (including his blog) and over a month of no visible...

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Ernest is still posting devlogs:

https://kbin.social/u/ernest

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Does Famicom Disk System count?

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@fediverse Is this a title ?

So... Theoretically this should be visible from Lemmy. Hi Lemmy users ! Greeting from Mastodon !
(Im never leaving the fediverse if this works)

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I'm fairly sure Lemmy image embeds won't be visible in Mastodon since it doesn't have rich text formatting / markdown.

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I had good luck with paying for YouTube Premium. Can use a VPN to get it so dirt cheap I wouldn't bother with working around it.

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I'm perfectly aware. Everyone keeps saying that piracy is a convenience issue but people seem to go great lengths to get YouTube for free given how expensive it is to run and how much value it provides.

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It's telling that you're completly skipping over content creators.

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The article lacks some details that are inconvenient to the point it makes. What was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off? What could be done to prevent it?

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Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it’s the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:

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Beeper already fixed iMessage on Beeper Cloud and is working on restoring Beeper Mini. Might take some back and forth but it still wouldn’t be surprise if it makes their reimplementation more resilient to Apple tampering.

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YouTube Premium includes YouTube Music and their fight against adblock and background play on free tier is part of appeasing copyright holders who get their cut just fine. There’s gray area but Google can’t flat out pirate music without getting sued into oblivion.

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Guy wanted to vent about smart thermostats, explicitly said he doesn’t need advice and got bajillion responses with advice, mostly from FOSS folks who couldn’t contain themselves. I’d be annoyed too.

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