The store isn’t also making games.
Like how Apple gets to take 30% of Spotify subscriptions and they operate a competing music service. That’s where it becomes wrong.
Of course, Valve doesn’t make games either now, so maybe it’s a moot point.
It is absolutely possible to identify users who post a lot on a public forum with a real name (e.g. Facebook or the like) as well as Reddit. So say you have some politician who claims to have X, Y, Z values and a Reddit user who has A, B, and C values that are antonymous to X, Y, and Z. By comparing common phrases, as well as by charting when the two seemingly separate users are online, you could say with reasonable certainty that the two people are one and the same, especially if you prompt them carefully to say the kinds of things they would say about neutral topics on both accounts. It would be hard to get 100% certainty, but you’d be close enough to imply it’s them.
AIs (LLMs) just make it faster.
Don’t post about controversial politics if you also post under your real name. It’s not a matter of “mask yourself better.” There will always be tells.
The community probably didn’t have any apps, solid or otherwise, to vouch for because medication tracking is built into iOS.
If you trust the privacy policy third-party paid apps offer, you should trust the one from Apple at least as much. Information is stored securely on the phone and never leaves it (except when it’s shared with the Apple Watch, or with providers you choose — note that only like a dozen or so providers actually support this, so I’m not sure what the criteria is since you’d figure most doctors would love to have that data).
I like your idea, maybe not in execution, but I like that you asked the question and are responding to people’s thoughts on it. Some people are being unnecessarily rude toward what is, at worst, a thought experiment. It’s not like you run a big Lemmy instance and have the power to implement this.
So while we’re all just bullshitting around the table here, I like the idea. Regarding mod abuse by OPs, I would say that if someone does it a lot, people would just block them and they would be creating echo chambers with fewer and fewer quality users responding. They would defeat themselves over time. I think the better solution would be to let OPs have greater say in what happens in their thread, but the final say falls to a moderator.
The moon landing was done by Hollywood. However, they got Stanley Kubrick to do it, and being the perfectionist he was, he insisted upon shooting on location.
An entry level laptop pays for itself if you use it to get textbooks for free after a certain amount of time. The question is can you do it legally? Probably not. So where is the cost savings supposed to be?
Was the picture generated by AI?
Most of my family smoked, so it wasn’t really peer pressure so much as “I’m 18, I can now do what the adults do.” And it felt “cool” to buy a pack. But then I didn’t like it.
But yeah, that was almost 30 years ago. I can’t really justify it.
I bought a pack of Camel cigarettes. My mother’s brand.
She got most of them. Not because she took them. I smoked one, I liked the taste, I didn’t like the coughing. I didn’t learn quickly enough. I might have smoked 3-4 of them (not all at once! I was not that dense!) before I realised smoking was not for me.
My mother: “Eh, free smokes!” (maybe)
Back then they were $1.89 (USD) a pack.
When I turned 21, I bought a “40” (ounce, like 1.2 litre) of Budweiser. Another mistake I learned from.
When I turned 40, I had the best party of my life.
“Fuck around and find out.”
(I don’t mean to promote this as a great “life pro tip” kind of thing, and it’s kind of an arrogant kind of thing to say. But, I do like the saying that “I was born in the fuck around century and I’m now living in the find out century” or something like that. And generally, if you do fuck around with the wrong sorts of groups, you will eventually find out, whether we like people who say this or not.)
“What goes around, comes around.”
(This is generally not true, at least not immediately. I have found, however, both IRL and online, that if you spew vitriol, it definitely comes back really quick. But if you try to uplift others, try to spread positivity, sometimes it does come back around. Just not as fast or immediate. Everyone has bad days, and one bad reaction can cause an inequal opposite reaction from someone who’s bigger and madder than you, and that can spiral downward quickly. It’s also easier to sour someone’s mood than it is to brighten it. That is to say, someone having a bad day can get me down more easily than I can lift them up.)
“Treat others as you they would like to be treated.”
(I read this on Xbox, of all places, but I’m not sure they originated the concept. They said it was better than the widely recognised “Golden Rule” (more traditionally written “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”) because others may not want to be treated the same way as you do. I have two kinds of coworkers. The ones who I flip off or tell them to go fuck themselves, they return the energy, but we all love each other. And the ones I smile at and say good morning to and then we stab each other in the back. I’m generalising, but knowing how people want to be treated is far superior to assuming everyone wants what you want. Think about it. [Insert Eddie Murphy tapping his head meme here.])
Depends what it is. I’m perfectly happy watching an animation spectacle with good music (say, KPop Demon Hunters) or a drama (say, Steve Jobs) on my 6.9" ~1440p iPhone screen, especially with AirPods. The iPhone 16 Pro Max is loud enough for anyone to hear, but it’s not exactly clear. Hence the AirPods.
Now if I want to watch Interstellar, I’m gonna watch that on the 55" 4K TV, especially the beautiful scenes. The drama, the parts in the house or on the ship or whatever? Doesn’t really matter. But the big space scenes, or the planet with the waves? Big screen all the way.
The only issue I have with the phone screen is holding it. I’d rather watch on my MacBook. 15" screen, great sound even without headphones, so it’s almost big enough for watching movies on (but for epic shots, I still like watching them on the TV).
I watched Bad Bunny’s performance. He was entertaining, he danced well, and the sets were nice. There were no subtitles so I could not tell what he was saying. I still felt like I understood him when he named off all the countries in North and South America. I understood that he was saying everyone in those countries is American and should be united. I can’t say for certain though, but that was the message I received.
Meanwhile, not only is Trump going after brown people, but his thugs executed a woman on the spot for what she saw. No trial, just straight to execution. Then they executed a protester. Trump said they were both terrorists. If Ms Good was a terrorist for what she saw that day (we will never know exactly what she saw that warranted her immediate execution), what does that make the rest of us who see this kind of thing day in and day out on the news?
Apple and Google have both advertised products which will translate speech in real time. They’ve never said anything about music. But maybe one day we will live in a world where it won’t matter what language a person uses, whether speaking or singing, we will be able to understand them, at least to some extent. (I’ve tried Apple’s solution with music. It works, but it struggles to keep up. So you get one line and maybe another a minute or so later. It is definitely not ready for prime time. Also, I used a Japanese song, and Japanese and English are the most foreign to one another, so Spanish might have yielded better results.)
Begs the question, where are the nipples on the oats?
Really though, do they have to call it milk? I mean what even is plant based milk? It isn’t milk. Are they that afraid of people knowing what they’re getting that they can’t call it what it is or give it a friendly name that doesn’t mean something it’s not?
They need to talk to whoever named hot dogs. We’re all know what they are and yet they’re still popular. They aren’t dogs and they’re sold cold so… clever marketing?
Gacha trash. Let me know when they’re making Portal 3 or Half-Life 3. And really, it doesn’t even have to be those franchises, but I mean, a single-player game that you pay for once and that’s it, and it has puzzles that make you think. What they were known for before they started making money off other people’s work and stopped creating wonderful things.
I mean, I know they still work on their gacha games.
Might seem like I’m moving goalposts and maybe I did, but I’m just nostalgic for when they made unforgettable games like Portal and Half-Life 2.