How is this a real question? We’re fucking cooked.

Dude what? It was a great show!

YouTube was operating at a loss under Google for years. The only reason it is able to exist is because a massive entity like Google was able to absorb that without folding, and keep providing a free service until it becomes profitable (is it even yet? I’m not sure).

I mean fuck Google, and yes a big enough non-profit (or even government) could do it (probably better), but unfortunately that’s not the world we live in right now.

It’s a very difficult business model to make profitable without an already massive userbase. In fact, I think YT was actually losing money for Google for a while after they bought it. I could be misremembering though.

I second Freetube. Not a perfect app (think it’s Chromium based), but it gets the job done and they’re pretty good about updating it pretty quickly whenever YT successfully breaks it.

yt-dlp is the goat

Same… And if they ever successfully make it impossible to avoid, I’ll just stop watching YouTube

Literally what happened to reddit

How does being a member of a Lemmy community equate to making that thing your entire identity?

If I’m subscribed to a community with porn, does that mean porn is my identity?

As someone who hasn’t worked anywhere with a profit-motive in over a decade, I don’t know how you guys do it. Truly…

Oh shit, a fellow FDE-head in the wild… What do you think of the latest Bad Dragons they just got in? I got one for 50% off, and it was only slightly used by Frank.

Lol the power is out and this guy thinks he’s gonna get overnight deliveries smh

/s

The only application I’ve kind of liked so far has been the one on Amazon that summarizes the content of the reviews. Seems relatively accurate in general.

I can’t wait until this “put LLMs in everything” phase is over.

Seeing so many disingenuous conservatives clutching their pearls about this, while being completely fine with unspeakably cruel shit they’re doing to immigrants (including green card holders, and others who are here legally) is infuriating. Fucking shameful.

Property damage to insured vehicles owned by a corporation vs. actual human beings

Sounds theoretically possible I guess…

Curious what the distinction between “standard of living” and “quality of life” here is… I’m sure there are subtle differences, but surely taxes contribute to both (which themselves are interrelated).

Seems more about keeping the idiots occupied so they can’t flood the zone with their bullshit

it’s a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate.

“Despite”? Try, “because”

Police unions give unions a bad name. Fucking thugs.