But the siren call…

This has a name? I thought this was just how it works. It’s why we think out loud.

eta: thinking + speaking + hearing engages more of your brain. That’s obvious, right? More engagement == more connections?

https://archive.ph/20260323165847/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2519288-the-simple-questions-cracking-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness/

Again, I meant for profit companies, like Nintendo.

Volunteer led orgs are different. Particularly those run by socialists.

e: most volunteer/socialist orgs don’t have ‘customers’.

I wasn’t justifying it. Perhaps that came across the wrong way.

They’re selling shit they never asked their users for and that’s bullshit, and should be illegal. Especially with children’s data.

My point was they’re doing it.

I’ve been in software design and development for decades. Sorry, but you are wrong.

The reason these companies are so profitable is because they sell your data.

Whales are fine, but that’s not their only revenue stream. People freely give up their data to them and that’s stupidly valuable. If you think these companies aren’t selling it, you’re very naive.

And to be clear, you’re saying this in response to an article pointing out they’ve been selling your data.

Yeah, I didn’t think I needed to make clear I meant with for profit companies like Nintendo.

Yeah, but many players don’t pay, especially the huge player bases of children. They can subsidise that by selling your data.

Nothing is free. All free services are using your data somehow.

If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

In this case, it was mostly children’s data.

I’ve always had portrait mode locked because I don’t like other side effects and don’t ever want my viewport to change.

So at least on my phone, this shouldn’t have anything to do with screen rotation. Seems related to sleep mode more than anything.

Oh, if it matters, I also run Memory Clean 2 to monitor RAM usage and do Extreme Clean from time to time.

I forgot about this because it’s basically muscle memory at this point, but maybe this is making a difference?

As of right now with just Sibelius, Scrivener, and about 40 browser tabs (no Adobe), I have 2.01 GB free.

e: I downvoted my original comment since it’s now occurred to me that this app may be why my machine isn’t struggling.

Yeah, I’m not sure about Tahoe since my machine is too old so it won’t let me upgrade, but at least Sequoia has been fine with 8GB.

Sequoia.

That’s not true at all.

I constantly have Illustrator, Photoshop, Sibelius, Scrivener, and about 100 browser tabs open on my 10 year old MacBook with 8gb of RAM without issue.

I was answering this as a dev and designer. That’s why this is more work.

Oh, then the dipshit is definitely going to try it.

Everyone wants a demon bursting through the ground in an explosion of lava. There are classes for that. Nobody has ever asked for a scarf in our game, and our code doesn’t even know what a neck is.

Yeah, IIRC when a bunch of large corporations got away with doing this in the 1980s and 90s, a lot of us just assumed it would keep happening. Some people have tried raising the alarm about this, but have been shouted down pretty consistently.

Hey man, I’m busy. Future Me has way more time, and they’re already angry at me, so they can deal with it.

(JK… I’m pretty good at documenting my shit now.)

They are, dumbass. You voted a paedophile rapist, insurrectionist, murderer into office, who we all knew was a felon, and he ran in order to cover up his own crimes, as well as to break many more laws.

Aiding and abetting is a crime, and that’s what you did, at least in spirit.

Fuck all the way off.