I don't live in America, I live in Europe, but the fact you believe in the effectiveness of democracy when governments under capitalism exist to protect corporations and maintain balance for the most part - to me shows naiveté more than anything.
I don't trust the government, nor should you, and there's nothing short of a revolution that can change that.
This has been the literal opposite of my experience, I've literally never had a USB-C cable fail, but I throw out at least a dozen broken MicroUSB cables every single year ranging from having the metal plug literally just fall out of the cable to looking brand new yet simply not working to cables that only work if you apply downwards pressure at the connector, I honestly don't think I have a single one that works right now and I replaced every microUSB device I owned as quickly as possible.
"Inserting 30 C and D films" implies forcing someone, you are never forced, Spotify is not a goddamn radio station, you can just click on the track or album or artists you want.
That's the whole selling point of portable music since the days of the original Walkman, that you listen to what you want, and not what's on the radio.
Same thing with Netflix, you can click the search bar and type in your film or show of choice, you can even stop using Netflix altogether instead of just consooming like a slop vacuum.
Yeah sure, it's actually good to think critically about it, but that doesn't mean it's existence is a negative, which is how your comment comes off - dismissive.
In the same way the world would be a slightly worse place without the joys of b-movies like The Room or Suburban Sasquatch or Plan 9 FOS, or without outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston etc...
One of my biggest complaints about streaming (Pandora is guilty of this, too) is that anyone with a copy of Ableton and a mediocre talent can crank out tracks barely modifying the base toolset.
People being able to do art isn't a bad thing, and I'm glad streaming has made publishing so much more accessible.
If you don't like it you don't have to listen to it. Every time some algorithm playlist churns out another spoonful of slop you don't actually have to open wide.
You could just look up the artists you like and what other people like that's like those artists, or look at collabs they've done or who remixes them or been remixed or covered by them and who they've been in bands with and what genre they tag to see who else is in that (micro)genre/niche.
I've never actually listened to someone else's playlists, not man-made nor generated, only my own, and I regularly listen to extremely niche folks with 1k-40k Monthly Listeners all of whom are completely legitimate artists with unique great music, many of them electronic actually.
The truth is that 99% of people like copy-paste slop and that's why they click on the slop and gravitate towards algos or charts for top ten artists.
And a global market for music with a low entry barrier means that it's easier than ever to get started artistically expressing yourself for fun and for yourself, just as it should be, but still hard to be actually heard if you want to take it commercial, even if it's fairer system than the gatekeeping of labels.
Compared to the wealth of pop-ups, ads and tracker cookies ubiquitous in every website that are burning down forests so they can run black box algorithms to optimize dark patterns for extracting as much revenue as possible while working the sweatshop poor to the bone - worming their way into everything without the condom of extensions - a cryptostealer disguised as ChatGPT_NFT_money_explosion.exe made by some teenager in albania feels... benign.
It honestly feels almost every political community either turns into a charity or legit local non-profit org that does something and maybe even something useful once the narcissists are ousted or a book club/discord server.
I'd say anime would get pretty toxic, just the sheer brainrot of moeshit seasonal trash watchers always seemed to burrow it's way into every legitimately normal and civil discussion for a piece of media, everything was simping and shipping and very porn-brained in an extremely off-putting way.
It was all nauseating, I just liked cool weird foreign basket-weaving cartoons man it wasn't this like, lifestyle or something that some people seem to live or a whole personality.
I'll forever remember Juzoboys back in the day on /a/ but I'm so out and never coming back. At least I was there to say NEVER EVER for the last time when the first Kizu movie got announced.
Not to mention that gamers tend to have the shittiest politics. Idk what it is man, but over the last decade and a half I've watched Steam Discussions go from a dry and somewhat elitist gamefaqs to one of the worst cesspools on the internet by far, and it has a freakin' swear filter, who tf would even risk their steam account going around talking smack like that I dunno.
A good community in a game is like finding the fucking higgs boson, you know when mfing warframe, known for having a great community back in the day - so much so it's a selling point brought up by reviewers and it's even basically expected that you will ask randos for help - turns the main chat (region chat) off by default then things are just... Not great.
Isn't this what mobile service providers do in America/US already? Contract that includes both the SIM and data/calls/minutes and the telephone on credit? Wacky either way 😂
27"-30" seems more than enough for me idk. Never needed a large screen personally. The only appealing thing about TVs is OLED but with how inconvenient they are to actually use (enshittification epicenter I hear with laggy apps and spyware) and how much space they take up and how annoying they are to move (housing crisis innit) and how expensive the good ones are I'm surprised it's still a thing.
Lol same I was all aboard for Mastodon then I realized it's just Twitter but good and I never actually liked twitter because it's so centered around random individuals and what they post, rather than what communities like as provided by them.
Everyone on here is equal, only the merit of content matters, but on twitter/mastodon it's just random influencer larpers screaming into the void until out the void comes some random guy who never existed before named soatok and weird empty eyed hivemind people stare confused about how you couldn't know this influencer/celeb who's apparently "well-known", it's so fucking weird man.
Thanks for inoculating me against celeb culture and this bizarre form of twitter individualism, early internets.
Haven't had a television set in my life ever. Don't understand why they're still sold either.
I'll have YT on in the background on my desktop PC for noise while I work or do chores and occasional purposeful viewing for some select few channels mostly for me and my gf to watch and discuss while we lounge, (I turned the algo off with no search history, no home page, only subscriptions, ublock, dearrow, sponsorblock etc.)
For news I tend to prefer reading to stay on top of current events in politics but I'll also overhear the general headline gist in the morning from political YT channels. I think people should generally try to stay informed and have a fully-formed worldview which necessitates a political ideology once they're at least a few years into adulthood, lack of curiousity and worldliness isn't anything to be proud of imho.
For shows I just download what I want and stream it off my Jellyfin server. I find out about them mostly through word of mouth.
Dunno/don't care about sports or anything like that personally.
I don't live in America, I live in Europe, but the fact you believe in the effectiveness of democracy when governments under capitalism exist to protect corporations and maintain balance for the most part - to me shows naiveté more than anything.
I don't trust the government, nor should you, and there's nothing short of a revolution that can change that.