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nova_ad_vitum ,

I know what this is and I refuse to be traumatized by it again .

nova_ad_vitum ,

Idk about the franchise but it's an excellent movie.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Allowing anyone to upload video and then serving it to anyone in the world, at no cost, is not a viable business model. There's no competition because there's no money to be made here.

nova_ad_vitum ,

I like Nebula but it's not comparable to YouTube and isnt supposed to be .

nova_ad_vitum ,

https://youtu.be/XKukzCe_P8I

nova_ad_vitum ,

You said all that without saying anything remotely relevant to this situation. You should go into politics.

nova_ad_vitum ,

I mean they're not pure cheese but they definitely contain real cheese. As fun as it was watching Nile Blue mess around, the recipe to make fancy versions of American cheese with fancy cheese (that is practical to do at home) has been known for a long time.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Has anyone identified the "killer app" yet?

I still don't see it. I watched a lot of review vids just because it was interesting but I don't see a single thing that the Vision Pro can do that can't be done better with other devices.

The tech and computation required for those avatar things is amazing . It might get much better soon. But even if it does, will it be better than simple FaceTime type video conferences?

It's not clear to me how apple even imagines people using the thing.

nova_ad_vitum ,

VR has been around in modern form for more than a decade and the only truly novel and useful application is some types of gameplay.

There are a few other legitimate applications. Architects can offer people a 1st person view of a designed building. There are already companies that let people do VR walkthrough of homes they're considering buying rather than in person open houses (I think this started in the pandemic).

These things have value but they're niche applications that can be done with any VR headset.

How to get a private car

Hello internet users. Someone in my family is looking to buy a car and wanted some recommendations for a private one. They are looking to buy new, and need Android Auto and CarPlay. I know all new cars suck for privacy by default, but I was hoping someone here could offer some insight as to which cars can be made better and what...

nova_ad_vitum ,

If you're using the android Auto app then I don't see how the OS even matters. You can turn off Google location services but I've never tried that with android Auto.

You have to sacrifice something. It's generally not possible to use cloud-based services while maintaining total privacy - at least not in a way that's convenient.

Here's what you can do - get a car with minimal tech built into it's head unit. Get a new head unit and get a car audio shop to swap it out for you. This will void your car warranty if it's new, but some HUs have navigation built in (not Internet dependent ) and support simple Bluetooth .

If you want full Android Auto capability then idk if it's even possible to meet all your stated requirements.

nova_ad_vitum ,

This is just a less gross version of "DAE store their piss in jars so they can commemorate their unitary secretions"?

nova_ad_vitum ,

With a recurring fee model, it’s in the business’s interest to make you use their service less while still paying, because if you use it too much they lose money, and if they price it according to how the power users use it then it won’t be a competitive deal.

You know I never thought of streaming services this way, but you’re absolutely right. Any service running on a regular subscription model falls into the “gym business model” where the ideal customer is one who is paying but never showing up. That way, their operational costs stay constant while revenue goes up.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Netflix’s model makes the individual business case for a specific show really complicated to make. What’s the marginal return on investment for a moderately successful show? If it’s not quite popular enough to get people to subscribe just for that show, then it’s basically a total loss (existing customers only are watching it, who were paying anyways). Looking at the financials of that one show in isolation, all they’ve got are costs with no revenue gain.

There is the broader argument to be made about how a show contributes to the overall catalog quality and how that ultimately drives subscriber growth, but this is a far more roundabout way of talking about value.

nova_ad_vitum ,

If you’re not going to spend 20 hrs on a diy solution that costs 3x what an off-the-shelf solution costs then why even bother .

nova_ad_vitum ,

I sort of agree. When everyone is trying to seed to up their ratio, getting stuff is easy and fast. But maintaining your ratio is a nightmare. The place is essentially starved of downloaders because even people who want stuff can’t get it for fear of ruining their ratio. The only reason I had a positive ratio on what.cd was that they occasionally had freeleech days where you could download freely and only uploads counted. On those days I would just get the most popular torrents on the site and upload the shit out of them.

While these problems exist in any private tracker, I do still miss what.cd.

nova_ad_vitum ,

I pirated a cracked version of Adobe Acrobat Pro recently. First thing I had to crack in years. It had a sketchy crack installer , with music and everything. Like it was back in the 90s. Of course it worked perfectly lol.

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