HobbitFoot

The powermods arent bringing anything unique moderation except a network that allows them to control content for a specific audience.

It depends who. There are some that build tools and procedures for handling large forums. They may also share best practices across different subs.

As for controlling content, it isn’t like a corporation or political group can’t create 20 accounts and take over subs. That’s already happened on Reddit.

Its overall a good thing but the powermods will be replaced with reddit admins doing the ame

Or sock puppet accounts. Banning the current set of mods without a plan on who replaces them doesn’t fix the problem.

The problem with powermod isn’t that they exist, though. Moderation of a large sub is still done by volunteers that have had to hack solutions together because they don’t get a lot of support from Reddit. It helps Reddit to have experienced mods overseeing several subs because they bring with them experience on how to handle high profile and large scale moderation efforts. They are a technical talent pool that Reddit relies upon a lot.

The problem is that Reddit has shitty mod governance. It still uses rank by add date and offers no ability for users to kick a mod out except for TOS faults. Reddit doesn’t want to fix mod governance issues because it creates a legitimate mod power structure and Reddit doesn’t want to give that much power to users, including mods.

That said, Reddit’s shitty mod governance was copied directly to Lemmy.

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/gunman-gets-life-in-rick-chance-murder/article_88a29648-5991-5d66-91e0-31397324e51a.html

There was a guy who owned a car windshield replacement company who would give away free dinners or diamond necklaces if you hired his company to replace your car’s windshield.

He was found dead with two strippers/hookers, one of either sex, some cash, and one of the diamond necklaces his company would give out.

Harry was always the spare, so it was highly unlikely he would ever get the throne.

Sure thing, Rick from Empire Glass.

Which of their product lines could turn dev time into money?

Which makes it work really well for stealth layoffs. If you don’t have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, you either have to show up or the company has a reason for firing you.

And if you do have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, they now have the ability to recind that offer if performance drops.

It is easier to hire a billing specialist instead of a nurse.

There are a lot of positions out there that, due to education and experience requirements, the industry can’t fill.

He probably likes being famous.

Android could be profitable if Google Play Services went with it. However, that doesn’t exactly fix the monopoly problems associated with Android.

I hate to say it, but unless Chrome becomes an open source project, I’d rather that it be owned by Google. No other company that could make money on a browser should own Chrome.

China put a planning halt on building new subways in 2020 and its construction industry is in freefall. It built a lot of impressive infrastructure, but the nation overbuilt a lot and is still processing dealing with it.

The problem is the economics of what you want.

It is going to cost money to buy phones, unpack them, upload the OS, test the product, then repack them and ship them. I would expect that to cost at least $20, probably more.

Then, after that, you have to maintain the phone software for several years. That includes testing the builds, which will likely be at least tens of thousands of dollars for each update.

So, you’re adding all this cost to a phone and for what? A phone that will be less capable than what is currently sold? And, likely, those who would be more likely to purchase this service can do it themselves.

Legally, it wouldn’t be a problem.

The problem is that whatever company sells custom ROM cell phones is going to need to eat the support costs for these phones. You’re also going to need to deal with customers who are going to lose access to a mainstream app store.

I wish they would build a 7" Pixel tablet.

But it’s it going to run Google Play Services? I feel like not running that would effectively make Amazon’s tablet its own fork.

Of course they had it good. Studios didn’t understand streaming and so sold long term rights to Netflix for pennies. Now, everyone is cutting out cable, making it impossible for those studios to fund new production on cable and broadcast alone.

New production is going to hit a cliff as streaming isn’t going to be able to fund golden era of television any more.

And on the flip side, I wouldn’t be surprised if software still gets updated as Valve keeps its minimum requirements as low as possible. As long as the drivers work, there isn’t a reason for different editions of the Steam Deck to run different versions.

It turns out people don’t want to pay cable prices for streaming.

They’ll just move the office to Austin.