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salarta:

chrysanthemumpink:

pizza-and-ramen:

red-mercer:

possum-adjacent:

dankmemeuniversity:

go girl give us nothing

If you’re buying Apple shit in the 2020s you totally deserve the ripoff that you get

The fucking option that includes an Ethernet port just puts it on the external power supply, like it’s a fucking MacBook.

People keep saying that this is how computer adaptability works and comparing it to the decrease in the lack of CD-ROM drives and Floppy Disk readers.

But this is completely different! And do you want to know why? Because, previous changes were consumer led. They came AFTER the technology had run its course, had viable alternatives, and didn’t force a majority of customers to adapt for profit. Also, Apple is lying. This isn’t innovation, it’s a purposeful manipulation of the market that makes physical ownership of content more difficult.

The Floppy Disk wasn’t just abandoned. It was replaced by CD-ROM in the 90s as a more portable & less expensive alternative. And even then, CDs had existed for more than a decade before computer manufacturers made the permanent switch in 2003. And despite the switch, the production of the floppy disks themselves continued until 2011. By the time floppy disks truly faded from production, most ppl didn’t even own one. And when CD-ROM became “obsolete,” they weren’t ripped from the market and even today it’s fairly easy to find readers that are cheap and/or included with desktops or laptops.

But here’s the thing? CD’s aren’t obsolete. Neither are DVDs, USB, and Ethernet and SDs. Not really. What is there to replace them? You could say cloud, streaming, etc. But those aren’t actually replacements, they are just different forms of consuming materials. And a majority of consumers will be inconvenienced without those things. Like how would you even connect a wired mechanical keyboard? That’s not adaptation, it’s inconveniencing consumers until they get used to it.

But it’s more than inconvenience. What all of these exclusions do is get rid of physical data. It slowly ostracizes consumers from the very concept of physical data and that is incredibly dangerous. All softwares, ad-ons, recordings, and medias being relegated to downloadable accessibility makes these things harder to pirate or share. It also encourages monopolies as it makes smaller, independent production and sharing much more difficult. It also makes the distribution of softwares tied to research & employment more easily controlled by corporations rather than people. And most of all, it takes away consumer control of the things that they use.

Like even PlayStation did this with the PS5? Do you really think not having a physical drive is an innovation? With physical games you can reuse, share, and save. I can play Spider-Man, give to my cousin, and then let any friend borrow it. And unless I bought the physical game online, neither google or Amazon can add that to their algorithmic perception of me. But without that…you have content strictly defined on individual basis and algorithms.

It’s just that all of the growing exclusions aren’t adapting. They are willful manipulations for the sake of changing how large scale consumers ingage with technology and the internet.

The headphone jack was not obsolete. It was purposefully left out to sway the market towards $100 Bluetooth. Physical gaming disk drives aren’t growing obsolete. They are being purposefully phased out so that the consumer begins to rely on individual downloads and algorithm rather than sharing and saving. And USB/Ethernet/SD/HDMI are not obsolete either. They are just being ignored so as to get consumers to change their perception of tech and accessibility. As if having a computer that’s only compatible with apple tech that’s less than 5 years old is reasonable. As if any use of physical content is a paid luxury rather than the standard

The P.T. playable demo is the best go-to example of why physical media is still valuable.

It was only available as a download. Konami removed it from the Playstation Store after they got pissy with Kojima. Only way you can play it now is if you happen to have a still functioning PS4 that has the game installed. Back when it was removed from the store, PS4s with P.T. on them were being put up for sale at sometimes twice the price of a brand new PS4.

Cloud isn’t the answer to everything. Especially if you lose your internet connection and don’t have other networks to use.

guerrillatech:

sassymccoy:

cripples-r-us:

molothoo:

amoisthobo:

This story just keeps getting worse and worse

Nothing about any of what I just read makes any actual sense

Meanwhile in Plymouth, MN, a white kid this past week brought a gun to his high school, shot it into the air in the hallways, and OF COURSE is taken in without being hurt or shot.

Unfriendly reminder that this was labelled as a “school shooting” for several days in an attempt to cover up what actually happened.

Even unfriendlier reminder that after enough push back, knoxville pd caved and released the body cam footage of all four officers involved. The child was being restrained by two officers at the time he was shot.

helenakey:

kaispeakshermind:

luccorvus:

sillymarillion-comics:

solepunk:

tiwaztyrsfist:

barduils:

gayarsonist:

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

Tolkien had personal beef with the Beatles

He actively encouraged Led Zeppelin to write songs based on the LOTR series and considered it an honor

When the current queen of Denmark was young, she made illustrations for his books and sent them to him under a pseudonym. He liked them and they were printed in the Danish version of the book.

WHAT

The Queen of Denmark drew LoTR fanart 😮😩

1cecxla:

justalittlelouislove:

If your feminism doesn’t include brown and black women, sex workers, poor women, women who sleep with anyone, women who sleep with no one, trans women, and sexual assault victims, I don’t want to be part of it.

tilthat:

TIL that during the My Lai massacre, which resulted in more than three hundred Vietnamese civilian casualties by the American forces, there were three soldiers that tried to halt the attack and save women and children. The three were denounced as traitors by some of the Congressmen.

via reddit.com

oldbeen1107:

world-heritage-posts:

goldredblueblackwhite:

asharomi:

supreme-leader-stoat:

mothman-flaptual:

i-am-the-broken-bride:

dealanexmachina:

inner-sakura:

jabberwockypie:

callmebliss:

runcibility:

bigdickfartsapolka:

unatkozorobotok:

tilthat:

TIL about the unifying cube rule theory that claims to settle not only the “Is a hotdog a sandwich?” question, but many other similar food debates.

via reddit.com

This puts the hotdog not in the sandwich category, but in the taco area.

I mean…

… they’re not wrong

That looks delicious. I want it.

It also suggests pizza is toast, and an apple pie is a calzone.

TACO SAUSAGE!

This suggests that cannelloni and burritos are sushi.

Open face sandwiches are toast you heard it here folks!

Behold, sushi.

Diogenes is rolling in his grave

Diogenes in his grave is a calzone

world heritage post

Schrödinger’s calzone

lectorel:

digitaldiscipline:

mckitterick:

lesbianbending-moved:

seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is…. u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020… and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov…. and it stars natalie portman…. okay

the movie is great, with amazing acting:

and the original graphic novel is phenomenal:

I highly recommend them both

and they’ve never been more relevant

“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

There’s strong subtext that V is a trans man and A)the lesbian from the diary or B)her wife.