Because of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPVf0sqAKI and also: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ and also: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/11/is-your-car-spying-on-you--almost-certainly--new-report-says

I can go on and on. I love the tech, I hate the companies. Plus: the build quality just does not seem to be existent in this space.

I agree, west Taiwan will eventually fall back into the hands of the people in Taiwan. And the country will be whole again.

They where using words like “purchasing”, and asking just as much for the digital files as for the DVD’s. If they where even available.

So it makes sense people where seeing it as “owning”. And then looking puzzled when Sony decided to break into their own devices and delete files…

I have family that FINALLY see that DRM is a thing in their lives, and they DO NOT like it.

Please keep your faith to yourself, we have too many as it is.

Ok, listen can we at least agree that PVV is not “clean” when it comes to Putin? And that they are very much anti “helping Ukraine” ?

It IS! But for some people it’s too much to allow that into their minds. So I try a different tactic: a little slower, so you can also get onboard with this.

Sure, but ties with Russia is not BS and not a “broke discourse”, there definitely is something there. And we need more discourse about it.

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de-banden-tussen-pvv-en-rusland-zijn-sterker-dan-gedacht?share=jXg8i%2B9UNApM%2BP1flD9ygNqq8TmbUqQcf6JZ59RWUb1I7VCcyj%2FRUA3KAzQBbWM%3D%26utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton

Not making anything up, it’s true: https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de-banden-tussen-pvv-en-rusland-zijn-sterker-dan-gedacht?share=jXg8i%2B9UNApM%2BP1flD9ygNqq8TmbUqQcf6JZ59RWUb1I7VCcyj%2FRUA3KAzQBbWM%3D%26utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton

At the moment, I’m ashamed, sad, and gloomy about the future. Its a proven fact that Putin is in control of this party. Which is why this party wants to stop sending f16’s to Ukraine.

This is bad. Very very bad.

The heartbreaking part is that the point he is making lowers the impact because of who is saying it.

Hamas is a result of hoe Israël has been handling the issue for decades now.

I’m not saying Hamas is fine, great, innocent or anything. Far from it. But the blame is on both sides.

True, but him talking about it diminishes the impact of these words. Lowers the bar so to speak.

I think Netflix would simply see that as a nice extra benefit. But the main reason is to “stick it” to the writers/actors. Without incurring the wrath of customers for the price hike themselves, they will just point their finger…

Perhaps, and this is very cynical of me, they are thinking, how can we make folks feel bad against the writers and actors?

1. price hike and people pay for it: They blame the writers and actors for the price hike.
2. price hike and people do not pay for it and leave, Netflix and people can blame the writers and actors as well. ("see!!! those demands are just not accepted by people!!! ")

It’s the only reason for the price hike I think.

I would actually pay for Youtube Premium Family, where it not for the fact that it does not work with gsuite accounts (which I have for my family).

We have spotify for the family, and I would cancel that and switch to youtube and music premium of google. For three dollars more we get ad-less youtube as well as music.

Sorry google, gotta pay attention to these things.

I second that request, I need to know more and read more about all of this and all of the sides, before I know what I’m talking about.

I remember there used to be an idea floating around of paying pennies for sending email a few years ago. It would combat spam, since it would not be economically viable to send millions of emails. It failed; since it would kill email, no-one wanted to pay and lock access rights to a certain group of people.

Elon is claiming he wants this for combating bots and scraping. Whether true or not, he will realize soon enough though that people will not pay for it. (Perhaps even find out it’s not bots, but actual people downvoting him)

(At the same time, it’s a bad thing we do not want to pay for good journalism/info, it leads to free ad-riddled sites with shitty click-baity content. The good stuff is behind paywalls, and therefore not available to the general public. This leads to a breeding ground for conspiracy theories. Since those are available for free (they want the message out there) and the actual researched stuff is hidden behind those paywals)

The fun part is… My printers are always recognized by Linux. Never by windows. I need to always download all kinds of stuff for windows.

Same thing for all of the other stuff in my computer. It’s already in my Linux kernel. For windows I have to search for simple things like sound drivers!!!

So I’d say: Linux is easier!

Most people will switch smartphones anyway. Nothing you or I can do about it I’m afraid.

Better we get then hooked on fairphone then.