reverendz

joined 1 year ago
[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Western brands in general are losing market share in China.

All these companies that outsourced in the 90s and 00s are having their chickens come home to roost.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

First past the post system is designed to keep the liberal and neoliberal parties in power.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You know what reduces copyright infringement? Making content available, affordable and accessible.

In the golden days of Netflix, I hardly torrented anything.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some real axis of evil shit going down. Anyone who questions if they’re the baddies at this point is intentionally being obtuse.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that part is super fucked up. I have IoT in my ceiling fans. I had to call their support line to have them remotely turn off the beeping that accompanies a button press.

The feature can’t be deactivated locally. I literally had to have my ceiling fan join my Wi-Fi network so that support could remote in and disable a beep that no one could possibly want.

Oh yeah, my oven has Wi-Fi. What possible reason could there be for my oven to have network access? It’s beyond ridiculous.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And then there’s the subscription model. Where you don’t own or even license software. You just continually pay rent.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

My whole family is lactose intolerant or milk allergic. My son is too.

Having to navigate a no dairy diet at daycare or school is difficult.