But the point is that Valve could easily be Amazon some day. All these little companies taking their first anticompetitive steps could.

Of course everyone loves them when they’re small, and nice, and growing, until they get so big it’s way too late to do anything about it. But many will still feel loyalty, like they do to Amazon today.

Eh, the context I was thinking of is that they are constantly playing “safety theatre” where it absolutely doesn’t matter. They’ve tried to kill open models and basically capture regulators by misleading or outright lying, for their benefit.

In other words, this is a case of “a broken clock is right sometimes,” and I think they knew Trump will back down.

Yeah… Microsoft and Google have a list of employees to fire now.

Trump will back off to some extent, to avoid inflaming stock markets (and his Big Tech friends heavily invested in Anthropic tooling).

Anthropic will fire a few people. OpenAI will raise money somehow.

That’s about it.

That’s basically always been the case anyway, except for Gemini for long context, perhaps.

And, of couse, prioritize open models over API. It’s:

Open training models > open weights models > restrictively licensed open models > open weights models over API > Claude/Gemini

Anthropic is self righteous and self serving.

Like, I like local LLMs more than most, and Anthropic models are great at the moment, but don’t mistake Anthropic for having a spine.

Talk in other comment sections suggests this means Nvidia (or AMD, or Cerebras, or Intel or anyone) can’t legally supply Anthropic with hardware.

So it effectively kills Anthropic? And that would sink the stock market.

As at the other extreme, a lot of Big Tech (like Palantir) is heavily reliant on Anthropic, which would unsettle the oligarchs and likely force Trump to walk back.

I don’t know if this is true, but this does smell like one of Trumps many “unenforceable tweets”

This is exactly my point; it’s easy to jump in and defend Valve for their good points when, at the end of the day, they take a third of all profits for themselves and have a pseudo monopoly with their platform, just to start.

One can make similar positive points about Amazon, about how much they can save retailers and consumers, especially before they enshittified so significantly.

I think they’re talking about Steam key resellers, which I wasn’t referencing. That’s a whole other thing (and can indeed be priced lower than the main storefront, with some complications IIRC).

Way too many DVDs are interlaced/telecined though.

Or worse, some hellish combination of both, because the producers edited different sources together. It makes scaled footage, panning, and some motion look really awful or jittery once you notice it.

Blu rays don’t necessarily escape this either, as they butcher the conversion to 24p and then you can’t even fix it.

For all their problems, streaming giants usual do this better. Amazon (and probably Netflix) had employees hanging out in the doom9 A/V forums long ago.

Dark scenes on a poor quality TV can look awful.

But many times they’re encoded dreadfully anyway, and DVDs tend to be better in this respect.

Interlacing is awful though.

Yeah…

That’s how Amazon worked. At first.

Back then, online shopping kind of sucked, and this little book store company made its so streamlined I got invested.

I’ve pointed out Valve doing basically the same thing; games can’t be priced lower than Steam on competing game storefronts (not Steam key resellers), or Valve will threaten to delist your game. Which would be essentially kill it. And they obviously do this to protect their chunky store fee.

But personal loyalty goes a long way.

I’m trying to reframe the perspective here, not drag into an argument about Valve. A whole lot of people feel good about finding “deals” on Amazon, about Amazon services that have helped them, and especially about the value and convenience the whole platform provides. It’s easy for Lemmy to hate on Amazon, but for the average person, I think this is a harder sell than most of us realize. They’ll dismiss it as the “market working” or California sensationalism or, more likely, just filter it out as noise in their feed, just like most PC gamers would when they read something bad about Valve.

Oh wow. That’s some weird shit piefed does.

On Reddit, Karma isn’t just more visible, but a certain amount is an explicit requirement for posting in many situations. High karma accounts are also less likely to get moderated/banned. You can see why spambots would want to amass it.

I have no idea what the incentive would be here.

Also, this is not that far from Instagram. And even with real women Insta always felt slimy to me.

And… weird. I don’t get the appeal.

This is why I love the idea of Cromite and other “antifingerprinting” efforts, not simply blocking but spoofing and plausibly randomizing as many metrics as they can.

I wish there was some way to distribute that to the masses. Like maybe a crazy hardware zero day, and it’s only used to stealth load anti fingerprinting on as many devices as it can.

What I barely understand is why businesses keep fueling this ad inferno. If it’s mostly bots farming engagement, isn’t that going to limit the effectiveness of advertising? Won’t that eventually show up in their returns on the advertising’? Do they really want their business associated with scantily clad 14 year old feeds, or are they all totally blind to that.

I get part of it… social media is the internet now, for most people. So if you want reach, where else are ya gonna go? Cable? Newspapers? Local news? They killed everything else. Google’s even killing YouTube sponsors now, auto skipping sponsor segments in the app.

IDK what y’all are on about. KDE + Khronkite uses very little RAM. There are a few background things you can disable if you don’t need them to make it even leaner.

It also just works, with so many integrations, all maintained for you.

My brief foray into discrete WMs like Sway was nostop “oh, it doesn’t have a WiFi manager? Oh, no sharing? Oh, no…” and I ended up having to install a bunch of stuff manually, manually configure it all, tie them together with some scripts and services that break with updates, and find out I did a no-so-great job because I haven’t spent literally thousands of man hours in integration and ended up using a lot of extra disk space and RAM anyway!

Breathes.

So yeah. Big DEs are nice. And lean, mostly.

I don’t intend to be abrasive, but this post feels like… bait?

I know it’s not.

But still. OP posted few specifics of what they actually do on their computer, nor what their hardware is, nor specific problems, and is not responding to any comments thus far. But “what distro should I use?” is Lemmy catnip. It’s absolutely guaranteed to get a lot of engagement.

It’s also been asked many, many times. If OP is curious, there are literally thousands of comments to sift through on Lemmy alone.

If this was Reddit, I’d say it’s a bot account farming karma for authenticity. But that doesn’t makes any sense, as there’s no engagement incentive like that here on Lemmy.

So yeah. Apologies for impoliteness, I meant nothing personally, but OP, there are many threads like this, and you’d get much more tailored suggestions with a little more specificity.