Exactly this! A great example is when the Alberta UCP flat out told renewable energy companies that they just were not allowed to do business in Alberta. Straight up, in your face central planning. Free market indeed...

This is a great idea!!

That's OK. I've already removed Netflix

Since he's now officially part of the government this is actually censorship.

The Steam Deck is the full package that not only integrates the hardware and software, but is also an open system. Slapping a some inputs together onto a windows PC just isn't the same thing.

Everything we buy from the US is made in China anyway, so we're just cutting out the middleman.

If we can eliminate US IP protection next then we can build our own technology and do away with them completely.

Beatings will continue until morale improves

Another example that Steam doesn't maintain dominance via market abuse, but rather by being decent in a market where the competition is downright awful.

Don't be biased except for these biases.

He's right. I'm committed to getting paid and doing what I want.

Also wife bad

Lol, after both steal every image on the internet.

No wonder the images look similar.

Ah yes, a fine example of small government free market.

Not the first time Nazis have been defeated by the cold.

I wonder how many of these folks just don't know about the alternatives. I've come across otherwise capable developers who think git and GitHub are the same thing. People come to software from all sorts of backgrounds so I can't blame anyone for not knowing.

I also imagine that if people are aware, the activation energy of switching is too high. It's more than just setting a new remote and pushing. You have to learn the new system, maybe migrate tickets, wrestle with CI, etc. For a hobby project it's probably easier to shut it down and just go do something else. I also don't blame them here. There's more to life than open source, and its amazing people are able to contribute when they can.

It's a total guess, but my theory is that people on the right are tolerant of enshittification and may even find it appealing, while the rest of us just leave. This seems to be the case with Twitter, so maybe Reddit is following?

Came here to say exactly this.

I'd trust the piracy sites more actually. We don't voluntarily give them our credit card and address.

It doesn't really bother me, but like you I am bored of it and I generally ignore it, or block communities if I'm seeing too much of it.

It is really cool that the models can generate fairly detailed images, but they're all so similar and... boring. I once saw someone describe it like corporate art. It just tries to imitate something popular in a very mediocre way. You can keep re-training it, but it can still only imitate.

Still, if people are into it then that's ok too. I have used it at work on occasion to create stupid little icons for internal tools I've built, so I guess there's some little bit of utility.

My guess is that it'll be used for a while for cheap and low effort branding, but soon companies will want to hire real artists again to differentiate themselves from the ML spam.

The Bangle.js 2 is pretty cool

Nothing says punk like the haircut on the poster at the barber shop in the mall.