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does Reddit still have a .onion site? I feel like perhaps you can use the .onion site and be able to escape this. the tor browser was specifically modified from Firefox to avoid fingerprinting.

tethering is far superior if you have the data plan anyway. but even apple lets you randomize your Mac these days, and on android it’s trivial to if you get root access.

This is even more hilarious if you read it in Dale Gribble’s (from King of the Hill) voice

“If you are an angry man of 30, and it is Friday evening, it may offer you > a bottle of whiskey,” said Ekaterina Savchenko, the company’s head of > marketing.

I feel personally attacked.

I’ve started using a faraday pouch for everything, from my phone to my car key fob. if you use a device with a masked MAC address in a privacy protecting OS, and don’t auto connect to networks otherwise, perhaps it’s better.

in autumn the new one strangely grew taller

You sir/ma’am, have fantastic taste judgement 👍

It sounds crazy but, Buffalo Wild Wings makes a great burger too.

Red Robin however is a pile of shit and id honestly rather have mcdonalds

are you suggesting I 3d print a Lamborghini?

shake shack has the best cut of beef, believe it’s a special blend of short rib and top sirloin with just enough chuck to keep it from being dry in a buger that is incredibly flavorful without being a pile of slimy grease.

No, but once again, I did say that

I don’t agree with it either

I can however, point to evidence that it’s a popular business model, if you don’t mind accepting hacker news and y-combinator articles, as well as YouTube media of startup CEOs in earnings calls, but I refuse to defend it otherwise. These are often people with lots of money and advanced stem + business degrees however, so Im not going to sit here and act like I easily know better than them. I can say it did work for Google, but this is after they already were dominating with ad revenue and had the means to slowly introduce ads into every platform they owned ( youtube, maps, android). Popular platforms like DoorDash also have yet to become profitable, despite commanding a 70% market share on food delivery.

as a millennial I’m pleased to finally be able to declare an out of touch zoomer (gen z) meme. who does coke and then sits quietly in the corner of the wafflehouse with their hands folded like a saint lol

it just doesn’t make sense. are they asking tech companies to generate encryption keys server side, store them, and then send them over a network to and end user device? because that is not at all how encryption works. is there not one person in the cabinet that’s not a complete fucking dinosaur?

it’s a known strategy in tech startups and most non inventory based businesses in general (think moviepass) to undercut your competition to try and get as much market share as possible, even operating at a loss, and then slowly turn up the prices on your users once they are locked into your system and make back the lost revenue over time. I don’t agree with it either, but the y-combinator business tech crowd seem to love this model, so I can’t really say if it’s a bad decision or not.

80 percent of unity users don’t pay and a large percentage of the 20% remaining don’t pay close to enough to maintain the engine. they did this on purpose, so it’s their fault, but it is the truth. most large studios these days that actually hit the numbers to pay unity are doing more with AI so they are paying less and those who the changes actually were attempting to make up lost revenue from. as I said, either way the “seats” model is dead regardless.

honestly as shitty as the changes were (and of course they were trying to make profit) they were actually attempting to help devs at least financially. For many use cases the install fee would come out as less than a 1% rev share. It was the other shit that made it worse, the install counting malware proposal, and the uncertainty behind the legitimacy of the numbers. (demos, piracy, repeated reinstalls)

if you’re interested in the insight from a tech investor who is familiar with the situation from the inside, but remains unbiased as someone not employed by unity, check this link for a good breakdown of what Unity’s leadership was actually thinking when they cooked this insanity up.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1702054746411221386.html

(ironic considering we’re talking about unity but you may need to scroll thru the shitty ads to be sure you can read the whole post).

1 use a VPN with a killswitch and based in a non 14 eyes country

2 don’t use social media outside of the decentralized fedi and stay anonymous

3 fuck their dumb laws but you’re fortunately not vulnerable anymore

I’m stuck on step 1

The harsh truth is even if they lose half of their current users they will end up making more anyway, even with the amended changes. They planned to lose a large chunk of their user base, regardless. The “seats” model is dead now that AI is changing how game development is done from the ground up. And they needed to do this because they were never profitable (the engine’s development costs hundreds of millions of dollars) and couldn’t really compete with unreal when it came to the type of customers they could actually pay for the engine from

What was that? I couldn’t hear you over my triggered anxiety.

Be back later, gonna go generate more recovery media.

I was always told the revolution will not be televised, but just in case it is, we will have no problem keeping tabs on the most important cast of characters.

might be useful to run it in a virtual machine to force it into VPN over tor within a single machine.

I would like you to know it’s heartbreaking you had your trust violated like that by an adult you are supposed to be supported by at one of the most vulnerable age stages of your life, and I admire you as a strong, resilient person for having survived and overcome that.