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Well at least the buggy software will eventually generate more jobs because they need more hands fixing everything while AI can’t do it.

It varies wildly. Sometimes its Skyrim or Fallout 4, sometimes it’s some strategy game like Cities Skylines (2) or Factorio, or for a while now I’ve been playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 after I found out how awesome the gaming wheel support is on Linux. Latest Doom games have also been great for just venting out.

Yes.

It’s the same here in Finland. Only one provider (DNA) offers IPv6 for residential customers and others are “working on it” still.

I started paying for YT Premium years ago after I got fed up with the ads. I value the content and I think the service is actually really good so why not pay for using it? Premium users also generate more income for creators so that’s also a huge upside since I want the creators to thrive as well and keep on making good content on the platform. I think the basic ad-free subscription is only 4,99€ and Premium including YT Music is 9,99€ here in Finland so not bad at all compared to for example Netflix.

It’s one thing to replace Reddit since it’s basically just serving text content but replacing YouTube is not easy at all. Videos take huge amounts of space, bandwidth costs arms and legs after you gain any user base and then you also would have to be attractive to the content creators somehow. I think YT at it’s current state is worth the subscription cost and given how the platform works it’s also IMO completely reasonable to either force users to watch the ads or pay for ad-free subscription.

The problem is that in order to understand how the system works you have to use it first. Now if you are one of the people running away from Reddit, it’s natural to try to find the most popular server that provides most content to scroll through because that’s how it it used to work.

It also doesn’t help that join-lemmy.org highlights active users per month as a metric even though in the end it shouldn’t matter at all.