Have you tried what civilized countries do? Like putting prices including all taxes on the price tags?

I run a computer on Win7 at work, because it needs some important legacy software. It can’t be containered because it has a nasty licence manager.

And my oscilloscope runs on Win98.

Well, the article didn’t say it.

I would also prefer not to listen to him. Regardless of the daytime.

Probably just another conservative nutjob terrorist.

About anything to do with computers. Anything.

Lure them in, pull the rug, harvest profits.

Europe welcomes scientists from a country that does not value science.

I got a login on an IBM system. I logged in and moved to the change password mask. Changed my password to something filling out the 12 character new password field. Logged out, and got the login mask again. With an eight character password field.

Not that I would have bought it - not my type of game - but this game gets on my blacklist.

You’re right, cost of content creation comes on top of the running costs, too.

With Taler I wait for it to work the kinks out. And, of course, for it to be available somewhere reasonable.

But even running an indexer on a YT-like scale would need serious money, even if you spread the hosting and streaming load around. And for most users, this would not be attractive, as you probably would have to torrent the data first and view it later.

Then there is the issue with responsibility. If someone throws e.g. CSAM into the system, who could be held responsible? Who would have to deal with DMCA notices? Who would deal with issues like “Dictator X demands all videos showing him in a bad light to be removed immediately!”

And: Opening a payment system is a serious can of worms, especially if you need it to work internationally.

Honestly, I’m not against a YT alternative, but I don’t want it to die after three weeks because the person behind is was too optimistic to consider to potential problems.

The core problem is that hosting and streaming videos costs money, and that money must come from somewhere. Unless there is someone with really deep pockets just paying for everything, such a platform must use subscriptions or ads to make some money. Netflix & others use subscriptions, YouTube uses ads, and both even offer combo models.

How would a free variant of YouTube work on the long run? Setting up a small model on a server in your home office, maybe with donations to cover initial hardware costs is not the issue at first, but once you need a computer center and employees you’ll need some serious, regular money coming in.

Until their crappy isolated power grid will break again. Making people wonder where all the government money to fix and fortify the Texas power grid actually went…

Just boykott games using this kind of shit.

Simply abandon the US and move the forum to civilization.

Play shitty games, collect shitty prices.

That’s why you always buy oversized and mill it down to size and squareness.

It is so bad, it is probably not even AI, just incompetent human.