Microsoft, a sponsor of the new White House ball room.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c891yxgj44ko

I’m probably an exception, but my interest in physical media has increased this year as streaming services have become increasingly consumer-hostile. It’s unfortunate that many movies and shows have incomplete physical media representation. Some have only DVDs. Others lack even those, too.

Oh yeah, coffee grinders in grocery stores. I rarely see those anymore, but they used to be everywhere.

^^^ Look at this absolute asshole!, ^^^

<— also this one

While this argument is true, it’s full of holes.

Exactly. It doesn’t need to be all, or even most. Just enough to make them unprofitable for long enough to where they panic. That seems a much lower bar and easier to meet.

We’ll soon be back to monks transcribing at this rate.

It could definitely work: There are a lot of parallels. A powerful enemy from the old wars, an aged wizard who’s playing the long game, projectiles assailing the heroes, the hurried retreat, the aftermath and mourning in safety.

Oh no, it just became unextinct again

Cowards will be cowards I say, but us simpletons don’t understand the high stakes and day to day pressures of a modern multinational corporate conglomerate. They have profit margins, investor boards, and mergers to consider. Heavens! What good is free speech if they don’t make more money this quarter than they made last quarter? Please, good people of the Fediverse, won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

‘Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.’

Nemik teaching us to chip away at the pillars which hold up fascism.

In addition to cancelling, which is the MOST important thing:

What about uninstalling their apps?

App providers can see the number of installations on the different platforms (Apple, Roku, Android, etc). That count falling will further raise their disquiet. Leaving an app installed or continuing to use the service before the cancellation is processed could send an unintentional message that maybe this is all just temporary and we’ll come back in a couple of weeks after the news cycle plays out.

Agreed, good tools can be used badly. Over the years I’ve written Java, C++, and PHP professionally, and I’ve seen excellent and horrible impls in each. Today, I mostly use Java and this thread is reminding me that I need to learn a new for-fun language.