Satire or not, the guy is describing a possible future of shit where I hope not to be there.

Another classic day at Meta. I still wonder why people use their services.

The artist underestimated himself, $60 is not enough for this masterpiece

I don't doubt that digital is more accessible and readily available than other formats. The biggest problem is that few services allow me to download locally what I've purchased.

So, for me, you're not buying anything, you're just renting for the long term.

Honestly, I'm tired of buying digital only to suddenly find out I can no longer use what I purchased. For these services, I prefer self-hosting or any method that allows me to have a working copy locally. At least I can decide what to do with the digital content.

We went from “everyone will know how to code in the future” to “no one know will know how to code” pretty quickly

You call me?

For those who may have forgotten, the little prince of Meta more or less started with Facemash, a site that displayed two photos side by side and asked users to vote for which person was "more attractive," using a mechanism similar to "Hot or Not."

All "funny" if it weren't for:

• Privacy: using photographs of people without consent would often violate regulations and, in many countries, personal data protection laws.
• Consent: the people depicted had not chosen to participate.
• Objectification: asking people to rank solely based on their physical appearance can be seen as a form of objectification and can contribute to a disrespectful environment.
• Possible psychological effects: this type of public comparison can affect self-esteem and exclude or humiliate some people.

Not to mention what happened with Cambridge Analytica.

What do people expect from a mind like that?

True, but I think the fact that a good portion of the services were the "first" to be used also comes into play.

As an example, I always think of WhatsApp, which in my country has (unfortunately) become the messaging service used by everyone, even businesses. WhatsApp was the first to arrive in a market where no one else offered that service (or offered it at its level), and thanks to this, it has gained a following of users who now, out of laziness, don't want to switch services even though they (perhaps) realize that there are better ones out there.

For many, they use it simply out of habit and the laziness of not wanting to switch to something else. Like those who used Internet Explorer because installing another, clearly better, browser was too much of a hassle.

"What is it that the more you look at, the less you understand?" "A Kojima game."

I love that man.

Strange, I thought that paying more and more to get, in most cases, less and less was a good business move.

I'm happy I moved everything over to Navidrome. I use a few useful plugins and ListenBrainz to get playlists generated based on my own music, without any of that AI garbage.

I try to support artists by buying online or picking up CDs when I'm out and about. That said, I admit I do use the *arr stack too; a lot of albums are either impossible to find or cost way too much.

I have no limits or restrictions; I can invite family members without having to pay double or triple for a new subscription, I’m finally listening to music the way it’s meant to be heard.

Adding insult to injury.

There's always a purpose for those marble abs.

my desire to use Linux and continue learning

It's truly touching how that man says, "It must have cost a fortune" for what his employees did for him. People who dedicate even a small portion of their working time to helping people, even a small gesture, and not just for money, deserve better in this world.

Great decision, I can't imagine having to review maybe five thousand lines of code only to find out that it's just slop and less can get a better result.

That man figured out how to hack Matrix.

Steam seems to be one of the very few services (perhaps even the only one I know of) that hasn't transformed its product by following the trend of enshittification. I have many games on Steam, purchased years and years ago, many of which are no longer available, but I can still download and play, having purchased them back then.

I really appreciate Steam, but from what I read every day, I don't think "forever" exists, especially online. If we think of it in terms of "everything's in the cloud," well, the cloud costs money, so unless they somehow dispose of data, I don't know if a company can actually keep every single piece of data "forever" while maintaining a good price and not losing out or burdening consumers.

The same goes for physical copies: I could lose them, break them, my house burn down, and I'd lose everything, whereas if they were in the cloud, I wouldn't have any problems. The point is that consumers should be allowed, where possible, to export what they've purchased. Honestly, I think that anyone who bought movies or other content on some platform and then years later discovered that the company had removed them and they could no longer use them (or worse, the same content was on another paid platform) would honestly bother me.

It's too much crap now, the prices are going up, but the services are increasingly crap.

Last year, I cancelled my subscription and switched to self-hosting with Navidrome. It does what it's supposed to do, it does it well, no bullshit algorithms, and there are enough integrations to even provide a basic "discover this new song," "create a playlist the way I want," etc.