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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)

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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[-] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm I the only person who goes to the library for movies?

[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

Nope, we love our local library for nearly all of our media needs!

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

You are not!! We utilize the shit out of our library

[-] phario@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately here in the UK there has been systematic defunding of things like libraries.

[-] Ew0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's sad really as the idea that you could read a book for free in the 1900s was basically the OG 'fuck copyright'.

Books are weapons in the war of ideas...

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Goes to? Now even many libraries have streaming options.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your library has free transportation and cloud storage?

You're cherry-picking and strawmanning like crazy...

[-] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, my library does have free streaming through Kanopy app. It's pretty good. https://www.kanopy.com/ And my bike provides pretty good transportation.

[-] solberg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

At that point? I’d just pirate. Streaming services are for convenience. Going to the library for a physical piece of media isn’t very convenient for me

[-] Otakulad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And video games.

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