There’s no “solidifying” anything with this guy. His reign is based on his whims and emotions.

Assuming he has one before he died.

They could. Or Trump could fold tomorrow. No one knows. I don’t even think Trump knows.

It does but that’s beside the point. We’re discussing a hypothetical future.

This is just 12 different kinds of incorrect.

Think of how much diak space YouTube is using

Disk space will be the least of your concerns when running a service like YT.

If everyone can’t upload videos it we’ll never replace YouTube.

1. Everyone CAN upload videos to their own instance.
2. It doesn’t have to replace YouTube. It can exist alongside it as a competitor.

There is already a plug-in that supports that, along with Stripe integration.

100 subscriber is NBD. Let’s talk when you have thousands or even millions of active users. At some point you’re going to hit a wall if you were to hypothetically scale up. Costs of service would need to be covered somehow.

The sustainability argument stems from technological constraints. YouTube as a company has no problem sustaining millions of dollars in server infrastructure to serve media. Most self-hosters wouldn’t be able to do that without significant income.

I don’t agree with this perspective but also don’t know enough about server infrastructure or video streaming to argue against it.

This is a great name…

I mean it’ll work but you’ll have significantly longer loading times.

I don’t know how many different ways I can say the same thing and help you understand. It’s a trivial semantic argument anyway. Have a nice day.

It’s a huge gamble for manufacturers to order a large allocation of wafers a year in advance of actual retail sales. The market can shift considerably in that time. They probably didn’t expect Nvidia to shit the bed so badly.

if people aren’t willing to pay more than the cost of production, games wouldn’t be made.

Then that unmade game wouldn’t be relevant to this discussion.

The cost of production is the floor, and the cost people are willing to pay is the ceiling, and competition finds a line somewhere in the middle

Again, no it doesn’t. “What people are willing to pay” includes the competition. If one company undercuts another with a comparable product, consumers won’t pay for the more expensive one.

What I’m saying is that competition is included in “what people are willing to pay”. Cost of production is not.

It’s not. It’s just related to the competition AKA what people are willing to pay.

Interesting that Andy Yen does not have a Wiki page. But Proton says “Previously, Andy was a research scientist at CERN and has a PhD in particle physics from Harvard University.” so, I think he’s very smart, he’s just outside of his lane here.

Then don’t give me excuses. Don’t be a scumbag. External launchers only exist to serve ads and DRM, they have no benefit to the consumer. I own hundreds of games, imagine if each one of them required a dedicated launcher!?

Yeah I pirate all the games that:

• Require an internet connection
• Use Denuvo
• Require a dedicated launcher
• Require a connected account

If you’re going to make the paid experience significantly worse than the free one because you want to implement anti-consumer BS, go fuck yourself

Help me fix Apple TV. It’s a stuttery mess with digital artifacts on any sort of patterned background.

E: it’s fixed 😮 this has been driving me crazy for years!

Maybe they were prevented from doing so in the iOS app

Yes that is what I was referring to.