JelloBrains

You thought it was going downhill before, but now that it will need to answer to money men, who want profits at all costs, it's going to be sterilized eventually, piracy and porn are on borrowed time in my opinion.

$193mm for the Spez, this world sucks sometimes. I wonder how long the current Reddit admins stick around once the IPO goes live, I wouldn't be surprised if they cash out and run once their options go live.

It's what drove me to wrestling torrents, The WWE network was great, it had chapters, and the stuff was easy to find, then they sold it off to Peacock and stuff is hard to find, they have no chapters, they censored some of the old controversial stuff, it's just a lesser experience than the old Network. I'm very interested to see how it's integrated into Netflix, and if they move the US to Netflix when the Peacock deal is over.

I have a junk gmail box that I use with no real info on it, I linked it then immediately unlinked it, and that seems to have worked. So I guess if you wanted to do this portion but not give them access you could make a Gmail you will never use just to link then unlink.

WB Discovery is still getting their cut from Westworld, Raised by Wolves, and a dozen or so others by licensing it out to The Roku Channel streaming service of all things. So those actors went from getting scraps from HBO Max to probably next to nothing from Roku. I don't know if that's worse than having the content completely removed or not considering Roku is like Pluto TV and airs things more like cable.

Is Wired out here taking stories from YouTubers? I swear Linus Tech Tips covered this entire thing months ago, saying basically to stick to Fire, Onn or Chromecast devices.

Yeah, I don't believe it. Remember not a year or two ago they announced the monthly phone subscription for a new Pixel every year, and then just before it was time to release a new Pixel they reneged on that and said, never mind.

I only have played Fortnite because my nephew was big into it for a long time, now that he and his friends are in high school they have quit playing, I don't know if that's a big trend, but he tells me it is just not cool to play anymore.

The giant BR is likely Fortnite, the Battle Royale part that is the game most people know wasn't supposed to be the big deal, what is now Save The World was supposed to be the game and BR was just going to be tacked on.

And don't forget it's just a rental of the game, at any time they could shut off the game or license servers because they don't want to sell or keep that game anymore.

Now that's not exactly what the polling data says, it says 23% plan to get the shot, while another 23% might get the shot. I'd like to think those who say they might get it will definitely get it but we know a lot of them won't be getting the shot.

The search function is nice and really appreciated. But, from my experience, the biggest problem with Mastodon is how much work you have to put into curating a feed, something traditional social media has done some of the work for you. I mean it's fairly simple once you get the hang of it, but a lot of people are used to having their hand held.

Also, I'm not looking to piss people off, but I think in terms of the users on the platform it is extremely progressive, and non-progressive people will be less likely to engage with that.

It required a $200 special external HD-DVD player to do so. Man, I feel bad for people who bought... oh wait, I bought two. :(

By the end, they were selling for like $50 and giving away discs.

I now try not to be the first to buy anything "new tech," I was certain HDR and Dolby Vision were going to do the same as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD and one would kill the other, it could still happen but maybe not.