I already spent hundreds of dollars on my analog goggles, and a bunch more on analog VTX's, so I'm just going to stick with analog for a while. Especially since prices are way higher than when I got into the hobby several years ago.
Musk himself said there are way more bots than he thought when he was trying to weasel out of buying the site. That was before AI that could solve recaptchas, and respond like a human. Imagine how many bots there are now.
What does he care if a bunch of people that he thinks are losers hate him? He's sitting on his private yacht, anchored just off his private country club, and eating lobster in the hot tub. He's a major world player now. He doesn't give a fuck what reddit users think of him.
What do you think he would learn? He got like $190 million dollars in compensation last year, broke the protest, and only lost a small fraction of users. He doesn't view the site with the same love that we did. It's just a business to him, and he's just a soulless executive.
Spez and his executives do resent the users. He's on record making statements which make it clear that he sees the user's resistance to monetization as a roadblock between him and his money. The fact that people built all of the content on the entire site for free, doesn't matter to him. He actively hates them for not behaving in a way that gets him more money.
And AI. AI is a wet dream to a company like Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter. They can keep the appearance of an active and popular site indefinitely, stealing money from advertisers years before they catch on.
Very well said, and it was the trust violation which finally pushed me off of Facebook and Reddit. Reddit as we know it is dead, it's obvious to anyone who used to use it. But AI is here, and it's going to continue pumping semi-believable posts and replies for years, making it look as if the site is still booming. But the posts are valid, devoid of soul, and almost always written with an ulterior motive to sell something or some idea. The Dead Internet is here.
I really wish I would have shelled out a little extra for the Fatshark goggles with the removable receiver back when I bought mine. I'm pretty sure you can swap it out with a digital receiver, but I didn't do that, so I'll have to buy a whole new headset to go digital.
Except none of the comments are as you describe.
I thought you were going to make some Lemmy typical off-topic political point at first, but you had me chuckling at the end.
Idk what to tell you. You're arguing that a marathon isn't a test of endurance, and the speed at which someone can complete it isn't an indication of their overall strength and endurance. Okay then. You win. Have a nice day.
I will acknowledge that things that seem impossible to me are probably easy for people who engage in those activities frequently. So, you're probably right.
