Vendor lock-in is a big one. Losing access to your purchased games/apps and having a harder time bringing over your music and video libraries could turn people off, even if F2P games and streaming have made these less relevant. There’s also the matter of switching cloud storage providers
True, but they shouldn’t be the only option. A big part of why they sell the way they do is brand recognition.
Why do Android manufacturers keep turning their phones into iPhones? If I wanted an iPhone, I’d buy one.
With its friends in the garbage can
Even if they would, look what at happened to Bleem. They successfully argued in court that the PS1 emulator they were selling was legal, but Sony kept suing them until Bleem went bankrupt paying legal fees. That was an actual corporation, too. What hope does an individual artist have?
Or, more accurately, they aren’t prepared for the legal battle that would ensue
For those who take this seriously: don’t. Security by obscurity does not work.
They’ve been sucking for longer than they’ve been losing
Because it’s not the AI that’s taking away jobs, but the executives hoping to cut costs regardless of creativity, quality, or ethics.
Not surprising, considering Musk used it back then too.
Defederation is an important tool to protect communities. It helps prevent the Fediverse from being overrun with bad actors.
Or just stealing someone’s phone, doing whatever they want to do, toss it in a river, and not have anything traced back to them
You’re talking about the AI that provides accurate-sounding results but can’t fact-check and is also used to generate the kind of spam that’s constantly being pushed by search engines, right?
I think they’re asking for hardware, not software
I disagree on the last point, sure, the supply won’t go up, but the demand is likely to go down. Prices have ballooned hard in the past several years. The bubble has to burst at some point
Was the sub taken over by new mods or is it something else?
How do your pirates honor their dead?
It seems the monk’s arguments didn’t have a leg to stand on
I’m sure they’ll force it to reopen with a new, handpicked mod team that won’t do nearly as good of a job.
Every platform wants to be every other platform nowadays