For Dyson Sphere Program, you have to dig for this one below all the gross Fandom links:

https://dsp-wiki.com/Main_Page

I feel like this is a Veratasium video in the making

I wonder how that would work. My understanding is running a video site is extremely expensive. Transcoding compute, massive amount of storage, etc. Sure, a few small ones could exist, but enough to replace even a fraction of YouTube’s userbase? I just don’t see how the math works out. I mean, text-based Lemmy and Kbin had slowdowns/outages for months with just tens of thousand of users…

And that’s to say nothing of the copyright hurdles. Imagine people who don’t own the original videos start replicating content from YouTube -> fediverse-style video sites. The lawsuits would crush the new platforms to dust.

Believe me, I’d love to see competition. YouTube has had too much power for too long. It sucks how they treat their content creators, and even their users to some degree. But just like how no one up and starts a new electric power company, there’s a reason big players are entrenched: MASSIVE startup costs.

The Enshittification* of everything continues

* https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Okay, who downvoted this? Come clean, buster. My opinion about a video game is objective fact and you must agree with it.

Starfield bad

There’s something so cozy about pixel art. Brings me back to the mid 90s, playing ancient DOS adventure games in my buddy’s attic

all hail Lord GabeN

Took them over 350 years to admit Galileo was right about the earth rotating around the sun…

Fast travel simulator 2023

Thank you; that was amazing

Capitalism ruins everything.

Based

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M&t=25s

Is this satire? Are you playing a role? Poe’s Law means I cannot tell.

This is actually a useful comment in how well it succinctly distills all the batshit crazy conspiracy theories of the modern far right. It’d be useful to screenshot and put in a Wikipedia article on how propaganda takes over people’s brains.

Even frog facts?

“The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive.”

BG3 is amazing

A Siri that doesn’t feel like it’s ~13.5 years old would be nice, especially with the advancements in LLMs. I use Siri daily (timers, alarms, weather check while in bed, etc.) but it feels SO ancient. Can’t even ask it follow-up questions.