ThrowawayOnLemmy

It absolutely is just the tip.

Think about all the products out there that decided to save money by using a tiny SoC with a small amount of RAM. All that stuff is about to become too expensive to bother with anymore. Maybe we’ll go back to designing things without jamming computer components into every aspect.

Hey this looks like every outdoor seating place at every bar in my town!

But you get a lovely view of the dumpster.

I would love to live without a car. But my town seems hell bent on making nothing walkable.

Journey before destination.

I miss the days of people having their own bespoke collection of their favorite movies and shows. Everything is homogenized now. At least when I pirate, I’m still building my own personal media library. And I never have to worry about the show I like being removed later.

But I’m not gonna lie. The quality drop off in content caused by streaming services I think is a bigger issue

Netflix activity tries to make content that’s not actually good enough to watch without browsing a phone. Second screen content, they call it. And I guarantee someone in a finance role realized they could make way more by doing just enough to keep people, rather than try to actively create amazing content, because it’s soo much cheaper to not pay for good writers, or good set designers or actors when you could just find someone who’s good enough. I think it’s because the money people spend is recurring, linked to the service as a whole, and not linked to the individual work… users have to vote by watching now, and some of the best stuff I’ve ever seen is also some of the least watched.