Why? Shopify has been sponsoring stuff like community gaming events for a few years now.

Ok boomer, let’s get you back to bed.

Ah yes, I want to listen to your “uuuhm” and “hold on, little Jon just shit himself”, incoherent, un-premeditated thoughts, with absolutely no proof of the contents of the conversation.

At the end of the phonecall, I’ll probably ask you to send me an email with a summary of what we talked about, because I can’t be bothered to keep all that mess you’ve just unloaded in my memory.

Unless you’re my dad or my mom, you’re sending me a message in a way it’s convenient to you.

I hope you get the help you need.

I think you have some real mental issues and you are feeling some sort of disconnect from the world. I’ll leave you be, you’re freaking me out.

You’re having a conversation with yourself here? Are you ok?

That’s sarcasm, right?
You do have more than 2 braincells, right? I hope.

I am 14 and this is deep.

Lmao

Yes, overtime you’ll get more ads, as the server cost increases. But you’re not watching 360p content on a 1024*1024 monitor any more.

There are more and more content creators, creating 4K content every day. Server costs goes up.

IF you don’t like ads, you have the option to buy premium, to pay the server costs / content creators / staff.

It’s not enshitification, since you get more, high-quality (figuratively and literally) entertainment / whatever.

How is this enshitification?

You’re using third-party tools to circumvent the thing that the platform is held together by.

And the platform is now circumventing the third-party tool.

Pay for premium if you don’t want ads. The servers aren’t free.

Or, yknow, use an alternative. But you won’t, because Mr. Beast and ASMR ear lickers aren’t there.

Lmao

It’s good. It acts as a filter.

What’s a “plan”?

Yet another centralised social network. That pinky-promises they’ll never go bad.

Join now! Bring your friends! No ads! Everything’s free! We’re indie!..

Moments later… enshitification ensues.

I really don’t get why anxiety flairs up at night. Should be the calmest moments of the day.

Affinity Photo is also superior to Photoshop in many ways. Depends on what industry you’re in.

Or

Electric bicycle / electric bike / electric trike.

Half the price, double the mileage, double the speed+acceleration, half the charging time, half the cost, half the parking space, 1/4th the traffic.

1. There are more car-only roads than bike-only roads
2. Virtually no roads are ever completely closed off from car traffic and allocated strictly towards bicycles
3. More lanes = more traffic jams (induced demand)
4. More bike lanes = more people on bikes = fewer people in cars = fewer jams for “your lifestyle”
5. Narrower roads = Fewer cars = fewer pedestrian deaths = fewer car-crashes
6. More people biking/walking, healthier lifestyle, less stress on the healthcare system.

I don’t see how this isn’t a win for car-people and bike-people.

Affinity Suite.

But they have recently been purchased by a different company, so everyone’s waiting to see how that pans out.

Gimp is good for begginer/pre-amateurs, but the core of it is rotten and not fit for any serious work with color.