The PRC has been playing the long game.

So have US oligarchs

They could also just use a delay. I know sometimes they queue up like 15-20s locally, and the producer can hit a button to just dump the last second or two of feed (eating into your delay buffer) as a method of censoring. Much easier on sensitive ears.

To be fair, only the richest artists can self produce a US nation wide tour. It’s often not up to the artists themselves.

And even then, they’d be super limited on where they can play. Any major venues that uses ticketmaster also signs an exclusivity agreement to do so (I guess maybe that might possibly go away depending on how a trial goes in March, but don’t hold your breath), so good luck holding a big show when no arena is going to risk their contract for a single show.

Makes me want to tear my hair out when they ask me for assistance

ProTip: stop offering assistance to people who come to you for advice/assistance and then immediately disregard your response.

I had family that did that all the time with their computers (I had a computer repair business), and constantly complained about performance, but weren’t willing to change their behavior after asking for advice to make it run better/not be a pile of shit in a month.

Funny how charging customer rates instead of friends and family rates made them either figure their shit out, or stop coming to me every 6 weeks expecting a cheap fix to their lack of willingness to improve things. Either way, I stopped hearing about their exact same issues over and over, so problem solved.

Lol, lmao even.

You have unrealistic views of the common person’s technical acumen if you think this is going to have an impact of more than fraction of a percent, if that.

Fuck, I barely let AI make functions in my code because half the time the fuckin idiot can’t even guess the correct method name and parameters when it can pull up the goddamned help page like I can or even Google the basic syntax.

The fact that the pods cannot be controlled when you don’t have the internet is diabolical. I wish I knew this before purchasing.

Cloud service purchaser upset that purchase requires cloud for service to work.

Why do people never consider that anything that requires a server will likely end up in this position when the company decides it isn’t worth it to keep the servers running (or they just go out of business)?