Did they actually post a screenshot of the email they are sending out as an update? How hard is it to copy the text for the blog post? Why so lazy?
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#282Did they actually post a screenshot of the email they are sending out as an update? How hard is it to copy the text for the blog post? Why so lazy?
Formatting the text to be exactly like the email is probably more hassle than it is worth. It’s not likely to be a simple copy/paste into their CMS.
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#283Seems perfectly reasonable. In fact, I've always thought their terms are quite generous and they've been super patient with people who steal their product by sharing access in violation of their ToS.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
"and the $9.99 Netflix plan won't get you 4k." Maybe a bit off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone else actively avoids 4k? I hate watching content in ultra high resolution. It looks strange and unreal to me (Yes: I've turned off "soap opera mode") I'm really glad netflix makes it easy to avoid higher resolution versions of their shows =/
Do you have weird post-processing/sharpening on your TV (other than "soap opera mode")? There's really no reason to watch 1080p instead of 4K. Your eyes aren't somehow low resolution with 1080p closer to that realism.
>There's really no reason to watch 1080p instead of 4K
Yes there is. For one, 90% of non-native 4K is absolute crap. Upscales tend to bludgeon detail even compared to 480p/i sources, and DNR is rather crap, especially on the intense settings companies typically use.
Native 4k can be better, but there’s still so many mastering options that it still causes problems. See Star Wars, LotR, Terminator 2 as all rather controversial 4K releases.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stock markets are secondary markets. When you buy or sell Meta stock no money flows in or out of Meta. If Meta don't want to raise more capital, which they don't, ... their stock price means nothing to them until the shareholders revolt and vote for change (except they can't in Meta's case, since Zuck has total control).
There’s a technical detail here to note though. To management the share price actually does matter because they have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder returns, and the board even more so. So while it’s true equity has no bearing on current operations, current operations does have to consider share price.
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#286Honestly, I wouldn't have minded something like "buy an extra member" if it were introduced years ago. Introducing it now just seems to be a trigger to re-evaluate "is Netflix really worth that much" at a time their content selection doesn't look as amazing as it once did. I'm coming from a background of having recently cancelled my account though, and may be biased in thinking along those lines as a result. Overall…
> at a time their content selection doesn't look as amazing as it once did I feel like Netflix is seasonal. Just like Disney+ and HBO. Come fall Netflix will debut a bunch of viral bangers, and by February you'll be questioning if Netflix is worth it again.
Netflix's selection doesn't really have the staying power of HBO's selection.
HBO has some all-time classics that will be watched and discussed for decades, not just months. Sopranos is still discussed and rewatched and memed. Same with The Wire.
I feel that Netflix's offerings are hot for a few months, then fade from public memory.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stock markets are secondary markets. When you buy or sell Meta stock no money flows in or out of Meta. If Meta don't want to raise more capital, which they don't, ... their stock price means nothing to them until the shareholders revolt and vote for change (except they can't in Meta's case, since Zuck has total control).
There’s a technical detail here to note though. To management the share price actually does matter because they have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder returns, and the board even more so. So while it’s true equity has no bearing on current operations, current operations does have to consider share price.
This duty does not actually exist, though many us-americans think it does. See https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their stock went from $690 in Oct 2021 to $175 in June 2022. That's a 75% plummet, which is definitely approaching the equivalent of struggling-to-keep-the-lights-on for a modern corporation. That's three quarters of the way to bankruptcy, big red flashing danger lights. So of course this is a calculated bet to improve profitability. Virtually everything a for-profit corporation does is to improve profitability -- th…
Companies share price matters to shareholders and implies an ability to raise additional capital. It doesn’t have anything to do with solvency unless they borrowed money to buy back shares (which some companies did do when interest rates were low and share prices were depressed). Employees on stock incentive plans probably are eating the burden more than anyone.
While it's true that there is no direct link between share price and solvency, share price is the market's valuation of the company. This is very much impacted by the (future) profitability and the solvency of the company.
If the market thinks the company won't be able to make a lot of profit, or the market thinks the company is approaching insolvency, the share price will tank.
In other words, falling share price is not a cause of insolvency, it can be an indicator for it. The share price quite literally is the market value of the company.
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#289Anyone have a writeup on using TailScale to bypass these sorts of limits? Some folks have said it includes SSID as a check which is definitely a wrinkle. I would have assumed it was mostly just using IP address. This is one of those cases where the War Against General Purpose Computing is going to own society, score points against users. I assume if you can root & run Magisk you could fake a geolocation for example.…
Could you please eli5 how it works, a shared VPN?
Basically you have a machine running at home, and when you want to watch Netflix, you send the traffic through that machine so it looks to Netflix like you're from your home network
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#290One tip I use is to not waste money is never be subscribed to any streaming platform. So sign up for 1 month, cancel immediately and then watch what you wish for the month. Netflix used to be a pretty good deal because they had a depth of great old content from the major studios. But now it's scattered all over the other services, and we've all seen most of their decent original content. Doing it this way I'm subscri…
I like this approach as well. I already cancelled Amazon Prime and I don't miss it. The Video service wasn't interesting anymore and shipping with Prime isn't what it used to be.
I also do this with the Xbox Game Pass. Subscribe for a month, play some shorter indie games for which I wouldn't pay 15€ each and then cancel.