Except Alienware sold out to Dell and already enshitified. Had one of their prebuilts forever ago because it was the most ecconomic option at the time. While I guess it was okay for what it was (it was refurbished and thus cheaper), it seems like they went out of their way to make sure the only parts that fit in them are their own, modified parts.

It would be funny though to see the villain live long enough to become the hero by simply being less shitty than the current villain.

Damn, well now I wanna find your page and reupload your stuff just to spite them lol

If you haven’t checked back the answer is “the more the marrier.”

Nah, it’s more just understanding what’s expected of me. Like people are uploading shit for free, and I have gotten the “you better be sharing” auto-messages too. Definitely don’t wanna be a leech, but also wasn’t sure if there’s some kind of etiquette to resharing files. Seems like a silly question honestly, but my policy is it’s always sillier not to ask.

Agreed! I’ll take it a step further that they need to face bankruptcy over this!

The problem is that even if everyone paid for YouTube’s subscription, they’d raise the price, slash the features, and reintroduce ads unless you pay for an even more expensive tier. Just like Netflix.

Why? Because advertising companies will always be giving more money to YouTube than the users. The only thing paying YouTube gets you is the Sunk Cost fallacy.

The fact that this is still a thing is baffling to me. I am, by no means, a fan of Establishment Democrats. But this is why we have primaries. We can walk and chew gum at the same time; vote for progressives in the primaries, vote agaist the fascists at the same time.

And while we’re at it, between primaries, we criticize the people we elect because we demand better of them. And we warn them that they will lose to a progressive next primary if they don’t find the plot again.

This is not very hard. We can’t just note vote if we want to escapw the jaws of fascism without a civil war. We don’t have to like establishment democrats, but right now electing a do-nothing is objective improvement. It’s voting to get more time. And if the narrative for the democratic party is a progressive narrative, then progressive candidates can drag them kicking and screaming further to the left where they either find some values, or we send them to an early retirement next primary. We call this process “democracy.”

And I don’t wanna hear shit about it being “rigged.” If Viktor Orbon couldn’t hold on to an openly rigged system, the DNC doesn’t have that much more control either! Half the fucking country doesn’t vote. If everyone did, they couldn’t ignore the mandate. And so we circle back to the meme above: if you’re discouraging people from voting, you are part of the problem. Get them informed, get them motivated, get them registered, make a plan, and go with them if you have to! This is the easiest call to action we will get. If we fail to meet it, the next one will be a lot more painful for the whole world.