You do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.

Because it is faster to transport one big ass tar than 10k individual files, and compression is waste of time.

Maybe / maybe not

Companies pay to place their product that may or may not sell, c/o inventory discount.

Remember, in a perfect world, advertising to someone who will neither purchase more nor less is wasted advertising.

Marketing is not about what you want, but influencing you to do things that you aren’t doing already, or to keep you doing something you are about to stop.

Why are the things I want on the top or bottom shelf and the things I don’t want on end caps or the middle of the shelf?

100% data driven marketing is not about reaching people who are or will be consuming, it is reaching people who aren’t => selling things to people who don’t want to be sold. Keeping sold is a diff matter.

That’s what makes this big data so discouraging, if I look at a beer, it is more likely marketing teams will try to reach me on lateral data topics (would you like a gym membership?) that have nothing to do with beer vs “hey here’s a coupon for 5% off”.

That’s not how marketing works. People don’t sell you things you want, they try to sell you things you don’t want. That is what makes it so ahitty.

I am going to a bit counter culture here

Let your freak flag fly in university, as long as it doesn’t hurt others or yourself.

With luck, your friends will accept that you are a privacy weirdo but also respect what you do.

Avoid evangelizing as nobody likes a preacher, a vibe of ‘you do you’ keeps it light. You will find your peeps.

I agree.

Also DA who don’t prosecute petty theft.

I have no idea who would downvote you or why.

Theft creates conditions that encourage the publicizing of personal data. It is an anti-pattern to privacy.

don’t be daft

https://lemmy.ml/comment/3885368

100% + you can already see it on the fringes. The need for a server to stream content evaporates w/advancement in client-side compute. Why plex or jellyfin when you can do it all in the rendering layer?

Our interconnected network layers function because of open standards, with layers decoupling complexity up & down (sep of concerns) as well as left & right (standards that facilitate novel capabilities).

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/unity-and-ironsources-4-4b-merger-is-now-complete/

Unity‘s proposed merger with ironSource has formally concluded, with the two companies coming together to create an end-to-end platform for developers to build and monetize games.

https://constvoidblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/what-is-the-internet/

The best thing to do imo is insight thru experience - build your own networks (plural), your own software, secure them then connect them.

AOL.com ruined the internet!

old man screams at cloud

The 90s were worse imo when it came to quarterly returns

what time is it? Fork time!

Funny I said the same thing in 1995.

The internet is what you make of it. Meaning, you don’t need the entire wide area network, you just need what you don’t want in your local area network.

In terms of an interconnected network, you need only what you need!

This is an amazing time. Lemmy, self hosting, docker, cloud hosting, $100 consumer devices that rival $10k servers from ten years ago, AI, LLM, global gaming, etc….

People are reacting to the feeling of a lack of choice & nothing in it for them.

I have mixed feelings about upvoting you because point 2 is a wall of text and hard to read /s ;)

You are correct however.

The real key is realizing that any subscription based platform has the potential of jerking you around.

However given the sheer volume of impacted developers and the easily calculated uh class action Value, I am sure there is a predatory pricing lawsuit in there somewhere.

Another approach might be to form a publisher coop who can negotiate a better price on behalf of its members. That too likely will sour at some point.

Or just pay the license fee while determining how to exit the platform if it isn’t generating revenue … or stick with it if it works.

Unity isn’t that great, that’s why their stock price is in the shitter.