Well hey old man, go to bandcamp and pay a quarter or an eighth of the price of that frisbee to get lossless audio files that you can download and backup to your heart’s content.

Spotify was always for chumps.

My GOG games aren’t, my Steam library’s still chugging along after 11 years, my Linux installs haven’t failed or started spying on me and my offline, modular 3d printer still works.

It’s all about understanding what you’re using/buying and what’s the incentives for those on the other end. We shouldn’t have to think about that all the time, but on the bright side there are cool things happening outside of enshittification by publicly traded corpos.

Also VLC is free and is one of the best media players there is, and yt-dlp is so easy to acquire music with I’m surprised people thought spotify was a good long term idea for their music consumption.

If the world diversifies locations for medical research sites, that can only be a good thing for humanity as a whole.

The issue isn’t the percentage, it’s that inverse of growth. Most investors desire growth to see returns on investment for their upfront capital. If growth isn’t occurring, that’s a good sign to read the room and pull your funding.

Similar issues occurred with streaming services. Netflix is still profitable, but because the userbase isn’t growing, investors and the financial world stopped seeing it as a valuable platform to invest in.

“Gambling is a tax on those who are unwilling to learn about statistics.”

It’s so destructive to people, yet so tempting for governments and businesses to push onto others.

These screenshots imply the family’s wealth is built upon the father’s full time gambling addiction “working out” (he never quit, apparently).

Realistically though this is either a shitpost, satire, or pointing out the stupidity of thinking gambling will support your family. (And this is the place to repost lol)

Look at the rear leg on the left side of the photo, it’s curled in unnaturally. This might be slop.

WINE’s gotten a lot better since that statement was first made years ago. Thank the Valve money.

I decided to move to FreeCAD from Autodesk Inventor as I figured it would be easier and more beneficial to make the switch earlier in my engineering career, and I really like the experience so far - lots of good documentation and tutorials.

“Didn’t I hold it for you?”

Same here, perhaps it just had a delay before it was viewable to others - they are on Lemmy.world, so maybe the traffic is congested.

Check your settings to what provider images and files uploaded are hosted on. Your default may not be useable.

Self-hosting, device modding and homebrew, and getting the most out of PC hardware/DIY gaming setups.

IT jobs are a ton of fun for me when I’m helping someone new to the hobby because they love to get invested in all of the little tips and tricks to bring the most out of their machine (Even if they have to use Windows ;-;).

Every single console I’ve ever owned has been cracked open with homebrew installed, and it’s a large reason I got into retro gaming and 3D printing spare parts for things.

Also, hosting PC game servers for yourself and friends instead of paying a provider is so liberating, you start looking at it as “I paid for the whole machine, how far can I push the experience?” and start pushing mods and configs in games that would bring most VPS systems to their knees.

Machine spirit 40k lore

Nah you hate mainstream social media, you’re a hipster like the rest of us XD

Don’t got one, sorry mate. Also, how tf did you come away with that as bot generated

I self-host my own game servers for my friends and communities, so I know it’s definitely possible to run stuff on a budget. I’m just thinking a forum or blog/message board site, even for niche subjects, will get scraped to death and may outpace your initial resources allocated, so the only way to sustain that is having a benevolent owner.

Then again, I could be thinking way larger scale than what OP is thinking.

I live in the USA, so I guess that checks out.

Mistake after mistake after mistake.

It’s a bit of a chicken and the egg issue - the tools are there, but the business model of hosting a website is not sustainable for small or niche communities (especially with AI scraping causing strain and horrible ad rates), so not many people are motivated to create them.

At the same time, unless someone creates and maintains the sites, communities can’t form and spread through word of mouth. If you can get a group of like minded folks willing to bear the upfront costs, give it a go, and people will come. But I doubt such sites will spring up on their own anymore in the 2020s.