BarbecueCowboy

Also like, have we all forgotten about the possibility of someone having two phones.

There's an idea in marketing that if you create a solution, you also need to create new problems that you can market. For example, you buy a printer to allow you to print at home but now you need to buy overpriced proprietary ink. Or maybe you buy a phone, but now what can we do to make sure you come back to buy a new phone in 2 years? Truly solving a problem sells something once and that will not satisfy the infinite growth mindset.

It's a concept up there with Edward Bernays work in popularizing applying propaganda techniques to modern advertising as the idea that may have done the most to really push capitalism to its worst possible end.

Well, the reason it didn't work out now is obviously the Democrats somehow.

Nintendo makes things for a very specific market and any spillover internationally is just a bonus. To be fair, that has worked out for them for decades now.

That's kind of the thing, we want to think they're a bunch of sexless losers, but the basic tenets of advice you get from the manosphere will probably get you laid if you follow it. Following manosphere advice works because it's the exact same advice you just laid out but packaged in a more attractive and focused manner. It just happens to be with a side of right wing politics and more than a bit of misogyny.

Executives everywhere are. ChatGPT is near perfectly suited for handling a very large portion of executive level tasks.

Nature abhors a Vacuum.

I know right, are we really at the point where we're gatekeeping personal trainer advice? Being a personal trainer isn't a job you can always just walk into, a certification or two is sometimes required, but it's not like we're talking about a job that requires a licensed medical practitioner here.

Like, cmon bro, which one? Share.

Not your standard celebrity, but John McAfee was a hell of a trip.

I feel like most of the items aren't going to be real troubleshooting.

It's been a good bit since I worked the support desk, but even with generic microsoft updates, most of the 'questions' were basically the worst users finding a way to say 'It used to be this and I want it to be this way, hold my hand for an hour while telling me its not this way anymore until I get tired and then complain to someone else'.

I like Trakt as a concept, I've used it sporadically, but their pricing was always optimistic, even at $30 a year. It has worked for them overall so far because it's a well made project and people like them, but the value proposition of paying $5 a month now for something like Trakt feels crazy. It's hard to look at different types of services at that price point and come to the conclusion that Trakt is comparable. There are actual streaming services creating some of the shows that show up on Trakt that are very similar in price (Dropout as a good example).

Only rational thing I can think of with this recent decision is that they're tired of running Trakt and hoping to sell it off or close it up.