It sounds like the latency is really important here and not necessarily the bandwidth. That makes sense.

I can already burn through my entire wireless data limit in minutes. What is the point in it being faster without data being cheaper? At least from a users perspective and not someone who owns a telecommunications company.

I do remember that. I suppose not enough people would ever use it for things to ever balance out.

I want to see a website that links to whatever is the least viewed Wikipedia article at any given time until all Wikipedia articles basically have the same number of views.

Wow, $80. I haven’t looked into these devices since the first one, but I thought the point of them was to be very cheap. I do wonder what these new more powerful ones are capable of. Perhaps the performance justifies the price.

Does that not suggest that Xbox game pass is not very successful?

It is at least a different problem, but adding in the element that any failure is a fatal one it just isn’t enough that there are less obstacles in the way.

Agreed. I already don’t trust car automation. No way I’m going to add a 3rd dimension to the list of possible failures.

I wonder if they mean optical instead of image here. It would make a lot of sense if that were the case.

What is a laser image transmission? Is the laser an image that is transmitting data within that image or is it a laser that is transmitting data in the form of images? 😐

Good point. I guess there is a reason that is the highest setting.

What is considered a high bitrate? There isn’t much reason to go higher than 320 kb/s on an mp3.

Those groups of people might be of the misunderstanding that people are still listening to them just because they are paying money.

It’s a wonder that there is anyone still buying Tesla cars.

Oops, I clicked on this thinking it would be bout Cities Skylines 2.

The ads are rather ironic.

It just pulled in the first frame of the video on the website. The reason Bill Gates is in this video is because of a famous anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft that can be thought of as an equivalent of this one against Google.

If some piece of knowledge or skill becomes obsolete in less than 4 years from its inception than it was not important in the first place.

Pretty much. They aren’t a trusted intermediary at all.

I think it is a little different. They might even want you to not pay for it if you are a prolific user of Prime Videos.

This is a disturbing trend. Apparently a lot of these major streaming services are discovering that they can make more from ads than people paying for the service. At least when calculated with the subscriber counts they currently have. It seems they don’t anticipate people leaving their services over this.

Personally there is no way I would ever pay for a service that has ads. I’m not going to pay for a service even if its paid service doesn’t have ads if it has a free or cheaper service with ads as that would just be rewarding them for implementing ads.

For example with Amazon’s plan here. If you pay this $3.00 to remove ads then you are paying Amazon $3.00 because they added ads. This only increases the amount of ads that will be added to things.

Maybe it is just me, but is this kind of post the norm now on social media? I get that Reddit and Lemmy are supposed to be this kind of “link aggregator”, but when I see posts like this it just feels like an ad. I’d much prefer to see a post where OP came across the product organically and came here to discuss it and post their thoughts on the matter. You wouldn’t even need to link to it as people can search for it themselves if they are interested.

I do appreciate that services such as Kagi are starting to appear to replace the ad driven business model of yesteryear, but I’d prefer to see posts on Lemmy be between users that have their own thoughts and opinions.

That does seem like an exaggeration, but there is truth in the power of defaults for the mainstream audience.