I am a Meat-Popsicle

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Well not worth thousands of dollars Taylor Swift is a objectively different show than Elvis Presley was.

    There was some decoration on stage Presley came out he was the bee’s knees everyone wanted to see him, but you were paying to see him and for his roadies toship, roll out and hook up his gear.

    It probably cost $100,000 in labor just to haul Swift’s stage out and build it an arena. They probably need the arena for a week before the concert starts.

    I’m not saying her stuff is worth $1,000 a ticket we should get economy at scale for that number of people. But it’s probably worth 300-500.

    Unless you’re doing the insane level of football field sized stages with embedded screens and catapults, your average couple hour show at your average decent size venue really should realistic beatly be in the $100 to $200 range, You’ve got to pay the artist You’ve got to pay their crew and while the ticketing system does deserve to make some money on it, they shouldn’t be getting absolutely still filthy stinking lobbying rich off of it.


  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlFedora: GNOME or KDE?
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    I’ve run both. Started with Gnome.

    I didn’t absolutely love the UI but it wasn’t bad.

    Installed a bunch of plugins poked it, prodded, tweaked it. Made it exactly what I wanted.

    One time I tried KDE and found that it was exactly what I was turning gnome into with all the plugins.

    Admittedly, I think the Gnome control panels and tools are nicer.






  • It’s easier to manage security that way.

    Instead of having one binary folder full of stuff that’s intended to be run with privilege access and non-privilege access, all the privileged stuff goes in sbin and you don’t even see it in your path as a regular user. It also means that access rights can be controlled at the folder level instead of the individual file level.




  • Sure it’s getting cheaper, but is it getting cheaper faster than their need for it?

    I’ve always expected their business model was unsustainable probably only able to manage through venture capital and growth.

    There’s hardly even any competition, their free product is substantial. Even fully funding a server is barely enough to cover a bare metal node.

    This is just the introduction to cost savings. As they wade into market saturation, and still need to provide growth in numbers they’ll need to pinch the free users into paying and pinch the paying users into paying enough to fully fund the service. Of course it won’t stop there…

    Edit: FFS dictation can’t ‘their’ it’s way out of a wet paper bag.