Nah that trash isn’t touching my phone unless I’m homeless and starving

Never buy chain pizza at menu price. They all run specials all the time, that are around half off. They keep menu prices high so that they can constantly run buy one get one promos and specials to make you think you’re getting a deal. They also happen to gouge people who won’t bother checking the deals section

Fwiw the switch is also significantly more portable. I love my deck but I only use it at home in bed or on the couch. I wouldn’t really try using it in public.

On steam deck I just install them with Steam forcing it to run in proton. Works great

I don’t really agree at all.

The overwhelming majority of people are going to be calling from a cell phone with data access now. It’s time to consider including data access to emergency services w/ emergency roaming functionally just like we do with calls and sms. A system can and should be built out to provide emergency gps, video + information services like we described and live video calls. We have the technology we just have to cut through bureaucracy.

Providing advanced smartphone functionality in emergencies could be hugely beneficial.

They should also be able to rapidly provide instructional video in the year 2023

Ok Grandpa it’s time for your nap

I watched multiple tech reviews bend the thing in their bare hands. Just because you didn’t damage yours doesn’t mean it wasn’t a huge issue

Thanks for checking that man you’re the best. I’ll definitely get some podcasts transferred over and try it out after work tonight

Might try it, does it have skip silence, per cast playback speeds and configurable start and ending skips?

Man I recently switched from podcast addict after years because podcast addict put an annoying nag about permissions changes in Android, plus I always had issues with the playlist/queuing. Guess I’ll go back to it soon

Libraries have existed for centuries and somehow books are still being sold. Philosophically I believe information should be free and piracy is functionally the modern equivalent of libraries.

Piracy is a service and access problem. When the only subscription you needed was Netflix to get all the best content I didn’t pirate TV. That landscape is changing rapidly and I’m back to flying the Jolly Roger for any shows or movies I might want to watch. I’d genuinely prefer not to pirate if it means supporting the creators, easier access and a fair price.

That said I do support creators I like and I’ve happily spent money on everything from YouTube memberships, patreons, Kickstarters, podcasts, etc. I tend to prefer ways of supporting that cut out the egregious publishing industries, in fact that’s a large part of how I became a fan of Andy Weir in the first place.

As far as discoverability goes, I think it’s easier than it’s ever been, we’re far past the need for publishers to get content out there when it comes to indie books, music, videos and games. Though I do agree it can be hard for people starting out. There has to be a perfect storm of quality + viral success, but that’s not much different to landing a publishing deal.

In a perfect world I’d like to see an open standard for multimedia. I should be able to browse for media on a protocol similar to federation or HTML, where I can connect to that protocol with a media browser of my choice, and the monetization is set by the creators instead of the platform they’re hosted on. That’s a bit of a pipe dream, I know, but it’s always felt strange to me that I need a dozen different locked down apps for each service when I’m functionally consuming the same type of media across all of them.

At the same time we are inevitably moving toward a future where automation will render obligatory employment obsolete and impossible for everyone, so we will need to figure out how to take care of more than just artists. I do think that would play a massive role in how we look at copyright all together.

listen at work so I can easily get through 3 or 4 books a week. Audible has never been a reasonable value proposition to me as someone who consumes 40-60 hours of audio content a week at 2x speed.

I’ll continue taking advantage of cheap or free content, unlimited subscription services, piracy and text to speech AI software until audible can actually compete with those options at a reasonable price point. So yeah, I will listen to this book at some point. I’ll be damned if I pay $15 for a single book when I can get an entire unlimited subscription to any other type of media that is far more expensive to produce. Audible is a terrible value in the current media landscape and that has nothing to do with hating on Amazon.

I’m happy for Andy to be able to make a living writing, but keep in mind his origin story with the Martian was self publishing on a website for free. His fans asked for him to make it available on Kindle simply for a better, easier format and he listed it at the minimum price. Now that he is an established author the industry realized they can profit off of him, they want to milk us for all they can.

Let’s not pretend audible is putting a fair share in the hands of the creators here. I’m sure Andy and everyone else is doing well for themselves but it’s gone far beyond funding the artists.

I only listen to his books as audiobooks and I refuse to pay audible prices. I listened to the sample and it didn’t hook me like the Martian or Artemis so I guess I go without

I agree with your friend.

If there’s a media that I want to continue to exist and similar works to be made, I will buy it. Depending on how much I enjoy it I will wait for a sale or pay full price.

I think you’re giving him far too much credit. Hanlon’s razor and all that

Doesn’t matter which side of politics you’re on, Joe Rogan is batshit insane these days. Well maybe that is the side you’re on, in which case I retract the former statement.

Yeah I don’t remember exactly when he went completely off the rails, but early on it was just a chill podcast that talked about the kinda shit you’d bullshit with your buddies about

I don’t think we’re far off from 7 year olds being entirely unimpressed robots. They’ll just think it’s a dumb vacuum

Dogshit take tbh