boonhet

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

In fact, everyone is fake and gay.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seen plenty of comments on reddit who have used the GI bill to get an education they otherwise couldn't afford and then a decent career that has nothing to do with shooting people. That's what the smarter ones do, anyway.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

You'd need an operating system that uses it. It's going to be at least as difficult as flashing a custom rom, but likely even more so, as there might not be a ready-made build. Definitely something to experiment with on a secondary phone. PostmarketOS is your best bet, here are others that support Plasma Mobile.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Income and viewers are the same egg. You can put up sponsor segments but they're no good if nobody is watching.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

That does sound like it would help.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

I mean that's true but I don't think that's part of the chicken and egg cycle, as you can improve UX before getting users too

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago (8 children)

It's a chicken and egg issue for sure, but I think you've got the wrong egg.

Nobody will create content on a platform with few viewers. Nobody will be a viewer on a platform with few content creators.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Yes. But it used to be free to watch remotely. It's 99% your own hardware doing everything. Their services get used for discovery, not as proxies for the connection itself, AFAIK.

You already had to pay them to allow transcoding with your own GPU, etc.

Right now it's still not too bad, but just watch, enshittification will affect paid users too. For one, I expect the lifetime pass to go away, and go away retroactively eventually.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I thought the Concorde stopped flying because of the operating costs and environmental impact. It didn't have comparable competition as such.

Oh wait this is a games community. What's Concord? Maybe it would've done better if I'd heard of it BEFORE it shut down. Or if they didn't take 8 years to make what sounds like yet another Overwatch copycat?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

this is also a setting on both Android and iOS, with Android displaying the option to change access pretty much every time you pick out a file.

For photos at the very least, it's the same on iOS. Haven't tested with files. But anytime I needed to send people photos over FB Messenger, I'd add access to that one specific photo and nothing more. Until I got tired of it and added all photos. Oh well.