There’s no money in giving them what they want. The money is in giving them what you can give them cheaply that others can’t. If part of that is gaslighting…

I’ll give you the silver star for participation award. Now you want to talk about how they’re the only truly profitable company or does that straight too far from your agenda?

That sounds like a pretty trashy backup scheme. I don’t care what your subscription status is I’m keeping those backups until retension’s over.

Why would you use the gross numbers that don’t include the price of making the movies?

Netflix is in reasonably green but it’s the only one

Disney Plus is still in the red if you include their ESPN streaming.

Warner/discovery/max is barely in the green at 100 million.

Even back then the real power of winamp was in plugins. You can’t get away with the truly hacky crap and windows anymore.

The only thing I really cared for back in the day was visualization and the aggressive crossfade plugin.

A lot of companies are starting to do this most people are referring to it as source available rather than open source. I’m kind of surprised I don’t just turn it into an electron app and get it over with.

There’s not enough guaranteed margin in a single combined streaming and production house to feed the employees, investors, and media moguls.

None of these companies are being outright assholes (well not more than normal). The business model is simply not sustainable and they’re doing whatever they can to slow the inevitable collapse. We’re producing 10 times the content we used to produce, and the revenue from the streamers is nowhere near enough to cover the bills.

Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”

This is the moment the trolls have been training us for.

I think tech would be a better place if it did actually go away when you deleted things. If something’s not explicitly backed up people really should have no hope of bringing it back.

Really, it depends on your definition of best.