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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • I’m not sure why this shocks people. It’s definitely not new or tesla specific.

    Does your car have an app that let’s you see data from your car or do anything to remotely control it like unlock the doors? then that can be done by the car company that runs the backend the app communicates with.

    It’s also not limited to app based things, cars have had this since OnStar was a thing. It’s just much more obvious these days.







  • maybe? it’s impossible to predict what effects that would have resulted in but what we ended up with now isn’t exactly great.

    your options now are either full subscription only, with little audience and a huge barrier to get users as you have tonconvince them it’s worth a full size payment.

    or convince someone else to pay you, e.g referral links and sponsored posts. this leads to low quality ‘reviews’ where the best affiliate program wins.

    or put advertisers content in your site…and deal with people blocking it, and all the seo spam to get viewers onto those ads…

    or…monetize your service by harvesting data on your users to then sell to whoever is willing to pay you for that data…also not good.

    maybe if we figured out micropayments early we could have avoided some of that. or maybe we’d just have all of that on top of micropayments. or something even worse to maximize micropayments.


  • eyeon@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlBidet anyone?
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    5 months ago

    it sounds like you understand the value of using water to clean your butthole after you poop… so why not spend the $30 on a bidet just in case you ever do have a poop and don’t want to shower? or hell just so you don’t use as much TP before hopping in the shower. or for anyone else using your toilet and not wanting to hop in the shower…