EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech

[peoplebeproblems@midwest.social]

Me too. A good written guide is always way more effective. There rare today though

[echodot@feddit.uk]

All the alternative businesses to Amazon suck. And also probably advertise on Amazon as drop shippers anyway.

[isomorph@feddit.org]

I agree with your point but you mentioned the services that are literally the hardest to find alternatives for. Need to use photoshop professionally, good luck getting around adobe. Sys admin only allows microsoft because he doesn't want to manage a bazillion different setups, get used to windows buddy.

[redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works]

little choice for amazon the logistic company

Depends on where you live. Here in Germany we have a few alternatives, like "Otto" and a few others with specialisations like electronics. Some of them have a marketplace just like Amazon and they even offer the same cheap chinese crap that Amazon has to offer. So you could feel right at home.

[punksnotdead@slrpnk.net]

I think you're forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professionally environments are to adopt it.

Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.

Don't let perfect get in the way of good!

[carbonatedpastasauce@lemmy.world]

Those stickers have no legal weight anyway, at least in the United States. The manufacturer has to prove that you damaged the device, whether the sticker is there or not. They can not refuse service just because a sticker is missing.

[carbonatedpastasauce@lemmy.world]

As an American I'm here for it and encourage it. These greedy evil fuckers need to be brought down and if we have to burn it all down so be it, so we can rebuild better. What we have now is clearly not functioning for anyone but the 1%.

[carbonatedpastasauce@lemmy.world]

That's a great idea and I may do the same, because I have the means. I won't blame ANYONE that can't because they are just struggling to get by, though. There's going to be a lot of pain and a lot of people are going to have to go into survival mode. If they have to buy the cheapest shit at Walmart to get by, I won't judge.

[Guest]

I use YouTube extensively (I mean, 2-5 hours a day) and 7 days a week for years now; I use it for language learning, there is really nothing better than normal people chatting (to the camera or between themselves) about regular daily stuff that I'm also interested in, to improve comprehension, I'd love to find any source as rich as YouTube. Peertube is hopeless, I tried and failed there due to a complete lack of content (though I do check in occasionally, I'd love if some of my subscribed YouTubers would start publishing on that platform... Though I don't know if there are any monetary incentives for them to do that?).

[surewhynotlem@lemmy.world]

The real money is in AWS, azure,GCP. No one cares about your iPad. Tariff the big 3 hosting providers and see how quickly shit hits the fan.

[engywuck@lemm.ee]

I'm specifically talking about the video as a medium to share information, and youtube is the worst, as it's 99% filled with crappy influencer stuff whose only aim is to monetize people's time.

[Guest]

Done:

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo

[fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works]

Small buisnesses and more so consumers can flex on what they use.
Academia can choose what they teach and require
Governments can choose what they pay for

We have power

[fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works]

Tbh I just duckduckgo the company and product if I find it in Amazon and order directly

[raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world]

Why not force them to unlock root from the start?

[Guest]

There's also patent invalidation on pharmaceuticals

[trenchcoatfullofbats@belfry.rip]

Yeah, switched to a different company for kitchen stuff, bought it on their site and everything, felt good about it.

Delivery day comes, guess who delivered the package? Amazon. So that was great.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

When America sends their users, they're not sending their best. They're sending trolls, shitposters, influencers. They're bringing Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones. And some, I assume, are good users.

[Guest]

Sure there's that. I'm just trying to help you understand the viewpoint of some of the people that are heavy users of YouTube, and why there are currently no good alternatives, as you said "I really struggle trying to understand".

I'm sure, like me, there are other people with their own alternative valid reasons for using YouTube for enormous amounts of time.

Just because some of the content on a platform is bad or not to our tastes, doesn't mean it all is, and it certainly doesn't mean that the users are wrong for using that platform in a way that suits them.

I do disagree with the publishing of content that is hateful or deliberately trying to misinform people, and I think YouTube has a lot of that, I'd obviously prefer it didn't.

[dojan@lemmy.world]

Amazon is barely a thing here in Sweden. It’s niche drop shipped garbage for the most part, very similar to Wish and the like.

They have some non-garbage stuff at the same price you find elsewhere.

They also don’t do logistics here. Utterly useless company.