I wonder though why they've been making losses for years - probably because of all the acquisitions? Looks like they were just another "grow now, revenue later" company that is now too big to be able to afford itself

... to the franchisees 🙄 To everyone else though, we'll get a livable wage.

And let's be honest, this devastating financial blow they speak of probably just means 1 less yacht for them.

But why do they want to charge based on usage? Their users are already subscribed. It's not like they run cloud services or anything. There is literally no cost to them except for the self imposed analytics stuff.

I don't fully understand why they need to do this. What is the cost of their service? Using the tool is already a subscription service, what else do they want? It's not like they have cloud services. They just want free money I guess?

I agree, I think a good compromise like school owned, locked down devices would still achieve the same thing

A calligraphy test is not irrelevant if you are studying to LEARN calligraphy. If you are arguing that calligraphy as a subject doesnt need to exist then fine then don't study it. But you don't learn it by asking AI to do it for you.

Ruud >>> Spez

I think the main problem with these companies and the startup/tech bro culture (mostly in the US) is that they are growing for the sake of just growth itself, because they want to get their own. The original idea is to grow as big as they can, IPO, then sell it off. They weren't designing things to be profitable from the start. So eventually they all reach a stage where they are hemorrhaging money too much, and that is where all the enshittification happens (investors come in, they try to make it a real business now, but it wasn't really feasible to be a business to begin with).

It's early stages but the conversations here feel more "high effort". I think it might also be because of signup approvals which weeds out bots/low effort posters. I do feel the growth pains with the timeouts happening more often but overall content-wise it is quite nice.

Looks like it is going to be more AR than VR, and they aren't looking at games at all based on the demos?

Also I imagined the form factor would be different to be honest. IMO if it's gonna be AR, something like Google Glass or those North glasses (that Amazon killed) would have been much nicer. But I guess it is also OK as it is since it's meant to always be tethered to your machine.

A bit disappointed so far, mainly because I can't justify it with the price. But Apple always surprises so I guess I'll wait until the first few apps/games come out.

I'm thinking about setting up an instance but am worried about costs - can anyone share any information on how much it has cost them so far? Especially the bigger instances, since usage might spike after the Reddit changes kick in, and I'm worried about suddenly getting a huge bill