Right. Right. But maybe we should choose democratically - with one vote per dollar not allocated to mere survival…

(Hopefully this sarcasm is obvious.)

I don’t want that machine

Let’s take care not to lose sight of what billionaire nepo-babies want.

I asume the prompt was: Tell me your board of directors are all too young to remember the DotCom bust without telling me so directly.

and I challenge you to watch it again and defend its virtues.

“Barf” is a half dog played by John Candy. I rest my case, your honor.

My kid watches it continuously, and they and I find it hilarious.

And yes, people do roll their eyes at my Monty Python quotes.

Now I need a “Spaceballs: The Money” duffel bag!

What’s the best way to get an intro to these tools?

Find a website with a free chat bot and ask it for guidance on learning these tools. If that doesn’t work, try another site. Keep asking for guidance to run up their chat bot bill until it blocks your IP range. Rinse and repeat with a new bot, or a VPN.

That’s the most fun way to learn about this stuff.

Oh, the best way? I have no idea.

Good advice.

Of course, some developers circumvent this by not adding DRM to their game.

Can’t waste dev time fucking with an esoteric key system if they don’t first waste dev time writing an esoteric key system.

I figure the engine swap business has got to be booming right now.

Was it pre-spyware? I’ll pay extra for pre-spyware vehicles. I work in IT, so I value my privacy.

Five now. It’s good money.

Or one Google employee who is particularly lousy at building social media bots.

Yes. It’s somehow a fucking race to build the Torment Nexus from the classic science fiction novel “Do not build the Torment Nexus”. It’s almost unbelievable.

You just know a bunch of these assholes are going to turn Cube into a reality, and then act surprised when they wake up inside the death trap.

Very strange when they dropped the slogan, like being honest about being evil got them brownie points.

I thought it was strange too, until I realized - I think the slogan change was a deliberate message to court a specific type of investor/customer: Epstein’s billionaire pedophile friends.

There is PeerTube. But to your point, full time creators need money, and monetization isn’t solved on PeerTube,

There’s also DropOut.tv, which has many comedians from the former College Humor comedy group.

DropOut.tv doesn’t really do educational content, but their funny stuff is unrivaled and very varied. Their game show, Game Changer is the best thing happening to streaming, right now.

There’s even a (fan) DropOut bot here on Lemmy that creates dedicated threads for the dozen or so of us DropOut fans to discuss episodes when they drop.

And both DropOut and Nebula now have deep back catalogs. I few years ago I felt like I could run out of things to watch. Now I only ever rewatch favorite episodes. Most Game Changer episodes are good enough to watch twice, and then watch the “making of” video afterwards.

It’s still not YouTube where it’s physically impossible to watch everything, but for my watching habits, there’s enough created that it feels like there’s always going to be stuff I haven’t gotten to. DropOut has a new high quality episode of a flagship show most week days.

Nebula is more like YouTube, where between all the different creators, there’s usually more new content available in a given day than I could consume, if I wanted to.

Curiousity Stream is also an alternative to YouTube. The video quality feels lower across the board than Nebula or DropOut, but it also has some fun stuff, and any competition to YouTube is probably a good thing.

Nebula is a fantastic alternative to YouTube.

It seems like they pay their creators much better, which is enough reason alone, for some of us.

Nearly every video on Nebula has a nice little extra for Nebula viewers. Most are just a quick thank-you, but some are much more substantial.

Legal Eagle sometimes fully drops lawyer mode in post-video bits for Nebula subscribers. This amuses me because I wasn’t sure he could before I joined Nebula. Haha.

Extra History and Extra Credits often have full extra videos on vaguely related topics, I think.

And Nebula is amazingly good for travel videos. Anyone who loves trains should at least try Nebula.

DropOut is my goto for humor, but Abolish Everything on Nebula also regularly provides a solid laugh. Also, DropOut and Nebula folks cameo across companies a bit. No non-compete contracts there, I suspect.

Obviously, Nebula has much smaller set of content creators, than YouTube.

I appreciate that too though. Average video quality is way higher.

And Duenovo. (Verified doesn’t guarantee malware-free. But I shop Steam because at least they require malware disclosure.)

I’ve had a game library stolen, already - I’m not (knowingly, haha) putting malware on my Steamdeck.

Crying shame, too. I would have bought Sonic Racing Crosswords on day one, otherwise.

Nasty bit of DRM on this one, if I recall.

Well, fuck him, in particular.