Great post, thank you.

It’s an Israeli company, that’s a no from me boss.

That’s it. That’s the only reason.

Manufacturing labour costs are far cheaper outside of China but the skills aren’t available. While labour costs are always a factor, the US just doesn’t have enough skilled manufacturing engineers or the supply chain you get somewhere like Shenzen.

Game prices haven’t followed inflation because the market kept growing so fast that they made it up on gross revenue. That’s coming to an end (hence the post-lockdown market contraction and layoffs), so expect prices to go up by at least $10 every generation from now on.

It sounds like this was his personal email account.

Maybe this Lemmy interface is confusing me, is there meant to be an article linked?

I really don’t think this qualifies as enshittification. There’s no evidence they’ve taken funding or have any shareholders they need to appease. They also only increased prices and have not moved the paid/free boundaries in any way.

I think it’s much more likely this is a side project that simply doesn’t pay for itself well enough, and the alternative would be shutting it down. If people aren’t happy with that, it’s totally reasonable to just cancel.

If the customers came across in the transaction, so did the contractual obligations. You can’t have it both ways.

There are copilot ads in the dotnet docs.

Jellyfin has a BDFL and is an organisation with assets, so it’s not impossible. However, considering it was forked from Emby by GPL nerds in response to licensing issues, I think it’s very unlikely.

They took VC funding (which is also bad), selling to private equity is very different (they strip mine businesses).

I’m in the same situation. I wouldn’t call Jellyfin better, but I far prefer using something that’s not becoming progressively hostile to my use-case of self-hosted media.

I don’t know why you’d equate might-enshittify to already-enshittifying. Especially when Jellyfin isn’t VC-funded, the leading indicator for enshittification.

RIP, even though they made some mistakes along the way I really liked Polygon.

ChatGPT energy costs are highly variable depending on context length and model used. How have you factored that in?

For me there’s a big difference between funding someone anonymous (to me) who might be an asshole vs someone known to me who definitely is. I can tolerate the former, but not the latter.

I’d only wipe it anyway.

Do people really have so little self-control that they can’t just not use a network connection if it exists?

Have you ever met any people?

You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.

Florida in particular.