Lol… people downvoting stanford university

Lemmy is a wild place… left wing maga, i guess

I’m curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?

If you’re getting paid to promote someone else’s shit, it’s an ad…

If you’re promoting something related to your own businss on your own propery and not getting paid by an external party, it’s probably not an ad…

When you use an app from big tech, you’re on their property. They can display whatever they want on their app. They can promise “ad-free” and break that promise if they want… or in this case, most people will agree it’s not an ad

Again, my explanation of our enshittified reality is not an endorsement… hence i choose to avoid big tech where i can and opt for free software.

I welcome you to do the same instead of demanding that amazon follow your view of the world

Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.

lol, you’re making judgements on people trying to explain reality to you while you’re the one actively giving money to facists

Then cancel your amazon…

I’m just telling you how the world works and why what you’re seeing still counts as “ad-free”

i agree it sucks. So cancel your sucky service and don’t try to compare me to a child abuse apologist

In the advertising world, it’s not advertising, it’s a promotion

For example, if you go to the grocery store, there is a difference between hearing/seeing something that says, “bananas are on special today” vs “go buy [specific brand] of cereal today!”

still sucks though

Tenacity is still active

Classic openGL software rendering… kids these days dont know what they’re missing

Oh damn, that’s a good one! i never got to watch a battle in total war with max number of troops

Thanks. It wasnt a proton issue. The game runs OK randomly if the rockstar launcher signs in properly. Otherwise it just stalls and the rockstar launcher throws an error saying the game is already running

Thanks for the reminder. That was on my wishlist for a while. Totally forgot

RDR2 was one of the first things i tried to replay, but i was having weird problems with rockstar launcher (maybe only a problem on linux)

i’m playing gtaV enhanced maxed out. Looks great

Shadow of TR, great suggestion. I’ll grab it on sale

Metro and stalker are great suggestions, but i’m really not into horror (i like to sleep at night)

TIL: i’m colourblind

It’s always saudi in philadelphia

Even on a computer without ad blocker (work laptop, chrome browser)

the number of times i say “nah i don’t need to see that” as soon as thes annoying ads comes up before the video…

The decline probably has very little to do with ad blockers.

That has ALWAYS been the case. I dont know why people are surprised now… ubuntu has alqays been backed by canonical. And it has always been based on the work of debian. What did people expect?

People have always been saying to just skip the corporate bullshit and go straight to the source… debian

Unfortunately there was a very loud group of people online shitting on debian, saying that it’s too difficult or user friendly or whatever… may have been true 10 years ago, but not anymore

Exactly…

The reason i run ad blocking at every level isnt to show that i’m too smart for marketing…

It’s because ads work on me… my brain rejects certain ads for sure, and it says “psssshhh, how can people be dumb enough to buy that shit???”… but that doesnt mean i’m too smart for advertising and that it doesnt affect my brain in subtle other ways.

I have a great seeding record, but cant find any private trackers to join…

Where do i start?

i only re-started my torrenting activities in the last few years since the streaming landscape has become a hellscape

I’m in the same boat as you

Also, most of these replacement suggestion in this article and many others, are not FOSS

No tabs in the app drawer… just all your apps on one page and have to scroll all the way down to find wikipedia, for example

Drawer tabs is really what i want

Cant find any modern launcher with tabs

None of these are a good replacement for nova.

I’ve been using android since 2007. Nova allowed me to stick with the old school UI paradigm of dock and app drawer… nova was so good, that i set up my homescreen in 2013 and basically never touched the settings again until i migrated a new phone…

All these new launchers break my 20 yr old workflow… i dont like the “everything is a search bar” thing