It falls under a greater problem of our time. Everyone thinks they can be clever by becoming a passive income earner. So we get things like middle men which has been increasing the cost of things because every hand needs to grab a cut along the way. We have people becoming landlords slowly amassing rental properties which created a bigger and even life long tenant class. We get economies that revolve around stock markets pivoting industry from productivity to shareholder profit.

I don't know if this is a trigger phrase like it is on reddit but it's true that nobody wants to work anymore. Societies require people to work to keep things going. Can't have everyone sitting on their ass waiting for others work for them.

Nobody wants to talk about it because nobody wants to be the sucker that didn't get a leg up on everyone else. So everyone plays along with this massive collective cognitive dissonance.

I watched RocketBoom until suddenly they ran out of money. I don't know what happened but it seemed like they were on the up and up. They even did videos with Sesame Street. If that isn't a solid endorsement...

Then one day it was announced it was over.

It was nothing more than an off the shelf ARM SBC inside. Some third party designed and made the board. Nobody had the bootloader keys to unlock the units. It was easily bricked. No keys to recover it. They had sold it as a device for "hackers" but nobody could really hack it. The whole concept was dead on arrival.

Several years later people discovered weaknesses in Nvidias bootloader code. The Ouya is vulnerable. So they're finally wide open hackable. But nobody cares anymore.

He was weak but they couldn't adjust his mic levels? That was weird.

We are facing a very real possibility of the end of the web browser as we know it. Google owns the chromium engine. Mozilla is on ever more precarious footing. It's become logistically impossible to build competing products except for tech giant. Even then everybody else gave up and went with chromium.

This is the same kind of framing Google used when they were considered the little guy on your side as opposed to big evil corp.

They ignored the point that capitalism uses violent oppression to suppress innovation. Kind of a main point of the video. The evidence that other ideological regimes cannot innovate is always implicitly that capitalists won by military might therefore the interlocutor is compelled to concede a flawed premise from the outset.

It's like smashing the sportsball net then saying you won the game. Especially if one were to come from a scientific perspective that is not a proper comparison of technological innovation when you ensure nobody else can even try.

Show us a world were different regimes compete scientific and technologically without resorting to violence against the others. We couldn't have it because capitalists sabotage your science experiment, take your equipment, then declare themselves the winner.

It goes to show the socioeconomic differences. The more affluent kids at my school went all out. There was expensive outfits, limos, and after parties at other venues. For others it was just mom dropping them off at the vanilla school hosted event and that's it.

That's how they've shoved the Overton Window so far right the average normie believes reddits brand of conservatism is any where remotely left.

"B-but a gay replied to me one reddit! That means it's left leaning!" Makes my eyes roll out of my skull.

I like to point out how reddit loathed SJWs. That was the prior right wing boogeyman known today as "woke". They absolutely hated the people who were promoting socially progressive views.

At the peak it was like every single day the site was circle jerking about how much they hated that. People reminisce about really distorted views of reddit like it used to be this cool left leaning platform. Sure if you ignore literally everything about what it was.

This is the exact type of thing Surveillance Capitalism warns us about. Everyone on Earth needs to read that book like 10 years ago.

Holes and dots.

For some reason I memory holed the first distro I used. There's only vague recollection. I think it was SUSE or something. When Ubuntu came around I tried Linux again. That's when I started to get the hang of things.

It's a rich peoples game. Those with mere pittance to invest will not end up with much even if they live a very long natural life and do not touch a penny of whatever they could invest until their death bed. Even then they've have to wait until the very end for that pittance. The whole thing is based on having a enough wealth such that small percentage returns equate to a lot in absolute value. A small or even larger than average percentage return from relatively little wealth is still very little.

To change any of this would be to change the underlying issues of unequal distribution of wealth. The stock markets are derivative. If more had wealth then obviously they'd be investing more. It's not the other way around.

Some believe they can cheat code their way to the other side by gambling which is not investing. Seems to have become popular again in recent times after certain cultural phenomenons. That again does not change underlying issues. A few lottery winners and many more silent losers only serves to amplify inequality.

I'm pretty sure Shield happened because the Tegra chips were used in infotainment designs. It wasn't just because of Switch as oft repeated.

He's sleepy from all that hard work.

The internet made a whole lot of things a big deal. Then convinced guys they were the victims. Then filled their heads with extremist ideologies. What a wild past 10-15 years.

It's long past time to move on from archaic inefficient x86 monopoly.

The world wide web was largely left leaning academic types. Then it was made more accessible to everyone. All the backwards ass people flooded in. I'm sure the establishment loves the poorly educated. They did have some tense moments around 2011.

Isn't this generally how the big tech firms generate dark profiles on people? Of the people who don't explicitly exist on their database. Take the intersection of data from family events. The people not in their database of known profiles are also likely family. Do the same for friend events. Take the intersection of those peoples interests. You'll be knowing a lot about someone who never told you anything about themselves.

You can run but you can't hide. Crazy times we live in.