Wait, really? I’d love to see replaceable batteries make a comeback, but something tells me that companies will prefer to up the water resistance instead.

No requirements on replaceable batteries? That’s the main thing that’s missing here. That and making the USB-C port easy to repair, and suddenly you no longer need new phones, just extended software support and repairs.

Yes, give China reason to join WW3. A brilliant idea!

How does one even get to add search plugins on Qbittorrent? And how do you make sure they’re any good i.e you only visit the good ones?

This is it! This is it! If teachers can connect to students, then students will listen, will engage, and will be interested, excited, and ready to learn.

I’m not saying it’s easy, I’m not saying it’s common, but I am saying that I’ve had a total of about 40 teachers before university, and of them, there are only 2 that I can point to, where students at large felt really engaged with the class. And this is why.

Depends. Do we count in-app purchases of apps I’ve modded or obtained pre-modded? Do we count the cost of films as one-off rentals/purchases, or do we count them as subscriptions?

If we consider games as buying one-off licences for them that I kept in perpetuity, it would be in the few hundreds, probably about £400.

If we include streaming, as a subscription service that I’ve used for the last decade roughly, then 10×12×£10 (assuming a tenner a month), we’re looking at £1,200 saved for streaming.

However, at least 20-30 films have been downloaded by me personally, so assuming a cost of about a fiver per film (idk how much films go for these days), we’re looking at another ~£700.

But also, we have to include ad-free YouTube as YT Premium. And even if we’re to assume that YT Premium is anywhere close to the service I provide myself with, i.e downloading things I actually keep as digital files forever, it would still cost a lot. About 5 years of YT Premium would be (according to ChatGPT because I didn’t want to research price increases), just over £800.

But I’ve also watched both Netflix and Disney+ exclusives, namely Squid Game and The Mandalorian, so I guess streaming would’ve been much more expensive?

Also, we have about a year of Spotify, which ChatGPT (easier to give more accurate estimates) claims is just over £140.

Adding to that, apparently the cost of Netflix over the same period is just over £1,500, so that changes the total.

So far, £3500, not counting in-app purchases in modded games. If we count that (which is ridiculous cuz I would never spend that much money on games, even if I was a liquid trillionaire (meaning having £1T cash)), we’d probably be looking at something in the hundreds of thousands if not millions.

If my parents were hosting Jellyfin, I’d have done the same.

Though in my family, I’m far more likely to be the one hosting, and receiving requests

Unfortunately, they are also shutting down fakespot, which was far more important but nobody used it or even knew of it

They are removing fakespot as well, which was made to help users spot scams. THAT was valuable but nobody actually used it.

Quote from the article:

Regrettably, a huge opportunity was missed to make all smartphone and tablet batteries removable and replaceable by end-users.

It all makes sense now! Like the 1234 password!

It’s already available in pretty high quality from pirate stream sites.

Also available to download as “PRE-HD” whatever that means.

Edit: PRE-HD means it’s the workprint

I prefer MAGMA personally

There is hope for the Thinkpads, as the 5th Gen T14 is apparently bringing back a lot of the reparability of the older models (namely, by returning replaceable RAM). I wouldn’t know, as I have a Gen 4 (not ideal, but just perfect considering how cheap I got it and how powerful it is).

Damn, the American Empire makes me glad my parents chose to move to the UK instead. Not saying our politicians are perfect, but they certainly aren’t as blatantly corrupt

I found Linux because I was broke so the only laptop I could afford was a Windows 10 machine with 4GB RAM, so I looked into Linux Mint to squeeze out a more decent performance.

I’d love to become rich, so I can keep on pirating as a statement. Or to show a rich guy how much better pirating is as a service.

Maybe then we can get their attention and prove that enshittification is the problem, and not the cost.

How would you feel if I took it from you?

Correction: How do I take it from you?

I think it’s time we move from threats to actions.

Yeah, but it’s not a new war. It’s an eternal war, and when those on top push too much, we push back. We call those stages revolutions, and maybe it’s time to remind those on top that when a revolution happens, their heads get separated from their bodies. So either give us back some freedoms, or blood will be spilt. And it won’t be our blood.

I’d love to use Pixelfed but as a user that looks at stuff instead of posting.

But there is no good option for a server. I’d want something nearby because speed, but my only options are (UK): A Scottish instance that will delete any accounts which haven’t posted in more than 30 days, a furry instance in the UK, and an adult instance in the Netherlands.

So I’ll pass until there’s a good instance.