Walmart and Target already do it. Just get rid of the public facing store part and send it to me as cheap as retail.

There are companies in china already doing this.

Would you consider $39.99 cheaper than $45?

I need a $40 screwdriver and 12v battery

They reduce the price of the screwdriver kit $4 to make it not free shipping on it’s own

I buy them both for $40.

I would have to buy them anyway, I spent $40 instead of $45 and still got “free shipping”

Saved me $4, I’m fine with it.

We need another amazon to beat the existing amazon up, retail sales are just bloated and dead.

OR, how about we start getting mom and pop shops to do local ecommerse with delivery.

That set is normally 39.95 off iFixit’s site.

They knocked off $3.38 i’d just go add a pack of duracels 2032’s and get them for almost nothing, free shipping.

TBF, I usually have something sitting in my cart that I didn’t feel like ordering yet anyway.

In this case, it’s 39.95 retail price. but I bet a lot of these things aren’t priced right

I have an ancient macbook Air I inherited from work. 4 GB of RAM, no longer viable battery. But damned if It isn’t still good enough to recover an Apple account.

I don’t have to do it very often but waiting a week for their sit on it to reset it bullshit is old and broke

We just don’t unplug anything ever. We usually have an room that’s on a wall switch near the lights.

They didn’t get more votes we provided less votes. There are absolutely US citizens on here that did not vote. This was clearly on the table. This is going to hurt, people are going to die, and we need to learn. You simply can’t let somebody like that get voted in under those circumstances and then expect to be able to resist.

I wish them the best of luck. Back when they were well funded, they had a hard time staying up without servers. I hope they sort it out.

I’d imagine it’d be outrageous without a CDN.

The idea is you’d have dozens or hundreds of people hosting loops and they’d each spread the cost among them and get funded by followers and philanthropists. Most lemmy instances use CDN, but it’s nowhere near as heavy media-wise.

You could also go the Peertube route and have the client share what you’re watching with other people torrent style.

Yeah, discoverability is work on Fedi, unfortunately most people would rather consume algo content from a bad source then work to find good people to follow.

Everything is open, I suspect if we REALLY wanted to we could make an indexing service to help surface content based on preferences, but then that’s a high value target for corporate America to farm. Also it would be pretty expensive to pay for it :)

Everything on Fedi is just different interfaces and perf from the user perspective.

People want to continue to use something close to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter but not be locked to their enshitified companies who decide what they get to see.

Many that come over find out there’s no algorithm and that they have to follow people to get any content, they find they miss the doom scroll and go straight back.

Microblogging is covered by Mastodon and Pleroma. People there could easily use them for the same content. There are a ton of options to crosspost tumblr to Mastodon.

The biggest problem is discovery on Tumblr is a LOT easier than Mastodon, you have to advertise and advocate for yourself

There was a github request to integrate lbry into fedi, but it never gained any traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#/media/File:A_view_into_the_Fediverse.png

So, no, they’re not in the fediverse and don’t interconnect with the other players.

Here are the current places that play well together.

Odysee had a shot at making it bigger than it was, but it’s really drowning in bad (moral and qualty) content. They never really recovered from their crypto scheme, once the SEC started looking into them, they got screwed. I’m down with the idea of paying creators in crypto, but they were selling it as a security.

Be careful what you wish for though

No, I’m calling BS. They’ll impeach anyone they think they can get away with it on. They investigated the shit out of Biden. They’re not being held back by some for of fear of tit for tat decorum. That’s wildly inaccurate.

For it to succeed, it would require congress to agree which they won’t because they’re conspiriting. And if it did get him out, then we get Vance who is also a Nazi. Protest, Resist, put up an fight, and wait in hopes that he’s bad enough that the right and left people can field some half decent candidates and stop being nazi’s

Alternatively, we’re now making/selling a lot of armbands.

Que: Eat the rich by Aerosmith

I mean, Steven Tyler’s a multimillion dollar rock star, But the song stands well.

Then proceeds to vote for the side that’s telling them they’re not working hard enough.

checks news for Luigi fallout

I’m not sure even that even sways them. They think it won’t happen to them.

I’m using Voyager. It’s amazing that we have choices.

Reddit and Facebook’s interfaces aren’t any better than anything we’re using, and they’re full of sponsored content.