Explain that to the average car buyer who sees the lower number and rules it out.

Doesn’t matter. If your PC is ever compromised, that feature is a one stop shop for stealing everything you have ever done on your computer.

How long until the majority of the Internet is inaccessible to non-Chromium browsers because the pages “don’t support them”?

This is Microsoft, an American corporation, actively developing the things the Internet spazzes out about China probably doing. How happy this makes China? Buddy, imagine how happy this makes every marketing company in the world, your local police department, and your own government, all of which have a much more vested interest in everything you do on your computer and are considerably more of a threat to you than the ruling party of a country on the other side of the planet. Seriously, y’all need to get your fucking priorities in order. It’s borderline satire how fast your average Lemmy user slaps the China Panic button as soon as a privacy-related issue hits their front page.

There should be no reason not to transcode onboard, right? Modern mobile devices could probably process video no problem and then the upload would be smaller and quicker than sending the original. Only issue might be long videos, but I think there’s a case to be made that these types of platforms should have a firm duration cap of only a few minutes tops.

Need a fork of an app that replaces a Google app to get a fork of an app that replaces another Google app.

Incredible. Their “AI” is just a bunch of people watching cameras in India.

That’s not communism, that’s just a worker co-op.

It worked for Netflix. It’s easy to scoff at the clearly customer-antagonistic policies these services are turning towards, inevitably accompanied by the “well, they lost me as a subscriber” flood of comments. But the unfortunate truth is the vast majority of people just shut up and pay, resulting in big net income for the corporations that enact these policies.

Linux users are what everyone says vegans are.

Meanwhile I’m thinking “ey, sounds like they’re getting enough money, now maybe they can leave me the fuck alone.”

Does it open Firefox instead, then?

Kinda hard to just trust those sites not to hide malicious shit in there.

I wish I had the energy to be this petty over $1.60. I genuinely respect your efforts.

OK, but is it actually booming?

Piracy of movies and T.V. shows really took off when torrents first appeared in the early 2000s. It seemed to peak five or six years ago, as new streaming services proliferated.

According to the European Union Intellectual Property Office, piracy bottomed out in 2021—before increasing again. “Current piracy levels are still nowhere near what they were five years ago,” Van der Sar wrote in a recent article.

We’re seeing a slight uptick possibly because of how fractured and inconsistent the streaming services have become, but we’re definitely not in some piracy renaissance yet.

Funny enough, I tried this with Starbucks and the manager refused.

What the fuck does this even mean?

Sure. I’m in no rush to replace my car with one of these, but it’s a great thing that this technology is already in production. With these actually going into real cars that people can buy and drive, we’ll get more data so that any serious issues will hopefully be identified and addressed in the next generation.

You’re in luck! There are millions of people playing games on Twitch. Who knew?

uBlock Origin is always the obvious answer.
SponsorBlock for YouTube.
FastForward to skip the delay on link shorteners.
Reverse Image Search does what it says.
Imagus enlarges any image you hover over with your mouse and saves you clicks, but can get in the way sometimes.
Flag Cookies has a lot of uses, but it’s mostly there to just grab my Google Drive cookies so I can download things a lot more efficiently with jdownloader2.
Recipe Filter if you’re trying to cook something but don’t want the writer’s autobiography.
ColorZilla if for whatever reason you want to steal the exact color code of a thing in your browser.