Everything everyone today says or thinks is plagiarized… Move along already, it don’t matter none. What does matter is how it, whatever it is, either benefits society or hurts it.

Funny, the statute $2500 should be for the circumvention act, which was likely singular, not per file obtained during or as a result of the act. And the $150k is ridiculous in and of itself, even if for all files obtained. What a strange world we live in.

Spotify built a system of control in order to profit a few at a cost to many, perhaps everyone else.

Someone broke that system in order to benefit many, possibly at the cost of some of their ability to profit from their system of control–if they didn’t lose customers, or prospective customers, they didn’t experience any financial loss, or a loss in their ability to maintain their system of control (which is still very much in place and working).

Either way, nobody was hurt.

But the person who acted selflessly to benefit of society in general is punished.

Because… We, as a society, celebrate and work effortlessly to maintain complex systems of abuse in order to satisfy our greed or the greed of others. All despite being taught in school not to lie to and bully each other, and to share with and care for each other.

As a species: We are bat shit fucking crazy!

I hear the photogimp patch makes transitioning to gimp easier, I haven’t installed it yet, but it’s on my todo list, as I’m setting up to move my Win10 media server/manager to Linux.

Naw, basically all major players changed their recipies over the last couple years. They are double the price, but have less chocolate, and more palm oil and other BS.

Stick with artisan chocolate, or, if you can, figure out which name brand chocolates haven’t changed their schtick yet. I think snickers are still the same, but don’t hold it against me if they aren’t.

Helped somebody homeschool a kid in elementary school a decade ago, the system was pretty user friendly and only really needed a human adult to keep the kid on task and ensure breaks and such. Basically didn’t need to help at all.

If the student is willing to learn, and knows to take breaks when they lose focus, I don’t see why an AI teacher wouldn’t be sufficient for 90% or more of the class-time… But a human teacher should still be reachable for occasional needs.

Heck one actual teacher could probably manage thousands of students for most classes if AI and digital course systems are there to handle most guidance.

There’s definitely still something to be said for in-person schooling… But it isn’t necessary for every class… I was bored as fuck in school for a handful of basic classes cause I had to wait for the ‘class’ to catch up before we moved on. I prefer online courses for anything that doesn’t require hands on guidance.

Well, I originally saw both Blair Witch and H20 played from really dark and messy VHS copies of theater recordings… And man, let me tell ya, they were both way better as low quality cams that HD movies!

I intentionally watch bad Horror as cams now, when I can, even decades later… It really adds to the experience!

SOs HP laptop borked Win11pro OS, wouldn’t load or recover. Tried reinstalling clean but Win11 installer can’t see SSD. Driver loading during install results in install crashing error.

Linux, here we come.

Why do they last more than a year?

Why do they exist at all?

Whatever man.

I change up my writing style pretty much constantly.

And I switch between muliple accounts on several services, each representing a different fictional character.

And I use a VPN.

Yeah, was pretty sure it was something like that…

I used AI to make a Home Alone themed digital Christmas card last year. It was completely PG. But it was a nightmare to do as I kept tripping over gates on account of Kevin being a child and Home Alone being a copyrighted property.

I went all the way to the dark end of the AI gen spectrum, to where kiddie porn abdolutely happens, but the product I produced there was unsatisfactory. So I went alI went back to the top players with all the gates and worked around them by reworking my prompts for what seemed like forever.

1 year earlier I would’ve gotten the results I wanted with my first prompt, maybe tweaking fonts for the words, fixing spelling errors, or making minor visual features. 5min tops.

It really turned me off from continuing to play with AI.

Those gates have gotten really nasty.

It’s as though users are treated as guilty in advance and then denied the opportunity to prove themselves innocent.

Completely backwards attitude and practice.

Oh, Costco is in the stone ages still in a lot of ways, it’s pretty unsettling sometimes. But also using tried and true methods and waiting decades to adopt modern tech saves a ton of cash… Which doesn’t just benefit the stock holders when you’re a company like Costco.

Go in in person on a weekday before 3pm and sign up at the service desk.

I have upgraded to USB-C headphones…

But, years ago I got a handful of USB-C to 3.5mm adapters as manufacturers were starting to discontinue the 3.5mm jacks by default.

I was of course used to needing a USB adapter for headphones because I had a RAZR v3 for many years, which I also used as an mp3 player. I believe it only had a micro USB port.

AI@home baby!

I called it many years ago.

Wish I found somebody dumb enough to bet money against it. I’d be, like, dollars richer maybe.

Wasn’t 7 just an visually updated NT.

Wish granted (wiggles nose)

Just connect USB-C headphones, or use a USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongle.

The audio jack isn’t needed anymore. The only real downsides of USB-C are that you can’t charge while listening, less wirelessly, and it’s more wear and tear for the port, but that’s unlikely to matter.

I don’t want to have or need health insurance… I want my taxes to fund Universal Healthcare, not wars.

I want my Gov to service my needs, and my neighbors needs, not to function as an entity that taxes the many and profits the already rich few.

I don’t expect it to bring change, but that wasn’t a rant. Neither was the OP.

And, besides, a responsible developer wouldn’t be on ‘unpopularopinion’ policing the language of the complaints made by their basic apps users either.

So I suppose we’re going to remain at this expected impass indefinitely. Because…

I’ve been in customer service my whole adult life. Every product, whether service, or app, or device, will see mostly complaints as their primary feedback.

It is simply human nature for a person to not mention a thing that works well vs actually act or speak out in response to issues that they encounter.

A lot of the time the customer is going to be frustrated while doing that, and that will be reflected in their tone and language. And that should be expected, and thus allowed.

It is in the best interest of manufacturers and producers and service providers to look to those complaints intentionally for resources to improve their products or services. And to do so with the knowledge and acceptance that their customers are possibly pissed off, frustrated, drunk, speakers of another language, or, and this is the most important one, not professionals in the relevant field.

Are you a professional developer? If so maybe you know how to use GitHub, or even what it is. Not everyone downloading a social media app on Play is going to know any of that, nor should they have to learn about it to complain when they have an issue.

This is a small platform made of primarily open source tools as a service to humanity by mostly good meaning folk. Inclusivity is important. And that means being accepting and welcoming to the less tech savvy. And understanding of their frustration when they have tech issues.

So, if you or any dev or service provider or manufacturer of any sort wants to thrive, I suggest learning to listen more, and police your customers less. They don’t tend to respond well to that, especially if they are already frustrated or disappointed because of something you are responsible for.

It’s a topsy tervy world where a customer has to concern themselves with a business opinion of them rather than the other way around.

And even if the service provided is free, or just a pet project, it’s still being produced and provided in a world where these things are true.

Regardless, I’ve migrated away from Blorp and will no longer be recommending it’s use. I’m actually going to be recommending against it. And who knows, maybe I am somebody, maybe me recommending a app tends to lead to mass adoption? It’s hard to tell.

I agree, Blorp sucks. I used it, and really wanted to love it. I thought it had great potential despite the issues I’ve had, and how definitely mid it is ATM. But thanks to you posted about it here, OP, and their subsequent comments, I now know that the developer doesn’t deserve my support or recommendation, so thanks for that.

I’m now commenting from a different app.

Bye bye Blorp!

Yeah, stop with that BS and pretend you’re a developer and not an emotionally immature grade school student.

In their complaint they mention specific issues, be an adult and identify those for yourself.

If they are problems you can resolve add them to your own to-do list, cause that’s what responsible adults do, if they aren’t problems you can solve then dismiss the complaint, cause they aren’t relevant to you.

You aren’t gonna come off like some rock star developer disregarding complaints about bugs in your software by getting defensive and specifically choosing to ignore an issue cause you don’t like the person presenting it or the service they are using to do so.

Grow the fuck up!