EngineerGaming @ EngineerGaming @feddit.nl

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I was under the impression that she knew and was deliberately laying low... Also, wasn't she built before these events?

TBH I mostly get mine from Youtube, although have recently tried Soulseek.

IDK if this is accurate, but it's absolutely my headcanon as to why Glados decided to murder everyone almost immediately after she was turned on. She just vacuumed up the collective stupidity of the Internet.

I would find having all my music on streaming EXTREMELY inconvenient. Not only can you lose access to some of it, not only are you paying continuously, but you're also locked to a specific player for this all. I do use streaming, but only for discovering new tracks. I do have a bigger collection on streaming - the tracks I like but not particularly so - but the main collection is just more convenient to have locally. I didn't download it all at once so no inconvenience here - just download a song as soon as I realize I like it enough.

Also even if I could afford to pay for my media, I'd rather buy digital DRMed downloads rather than CDs if DRMless aren't available. Not to actually use, but to correspond to the copy I do use. Specifically because it's indeed impractical, can be hard to get and and will be ripped anyway.

My newer laptop doesn't have a CD drive and I never once felt the need to use it. Why do so if an external SSD fits multiple times more data, takes up less space and is rewriteable?

My whole music library is local and DRMless. I find CDs highly impractical in the age of cheap high-capacity storage. I would rip them anyway, as using normal copies is just far more convenient, after which they'd need to either waste space, be resold or be thrown out. If I were insistent on paying and there was no DRMless option, I'd rather buy a DRMed copy corresponding to the one I downloaded.

Problem: this is what happens when Apple is the trendsetter, then whether you personally chose it doesn't matter.

At least the listings I have seen explicitly listed the origin country. Mine is Japanese, and it cost less than an American counterpart, for example.

Here they aren't officially available yet there are still plenty of resellers - I guess you can find some in your area. I was really scared that the bootloader wouldn't unlock due to the origin country's carrier shenanigans, but it went through just fine (still checked every bit of info I could before buying).

I am still very salty about it. But I considered that using a dongle is a fair enough sacrifice for actually trusting your phone.

I am using ESDF because my "A" key stopped being as responsive, didn't expect someone to do this on purpose!

Maybe the preferred Linux distro doesn't work with them. I had to use another distro for a while because Debian didn't immediately support the card, but there are apparently cases where the internal card just permanently wouldn't work (like in fully free software distros). I would rather replace the card inside the laptop than use a dongle, but idk if this can always be the answer.

My first thought was hacking.

I guess it's a) unfamiliarity, b) inconvenience for what they don't see as much of an upside and c) crypto as a whole being frustratingly seen as a scam, largely because of projects like the one in the post.

Is Monero hard to buy there? Are you doing so on Haveno?

Yeah, there is a whole "separate OS", but, to my knowledge, there hasn't been evidence of it casually being able to collect arbitrary data from the actual phone's OS.

My issue with that is that Pixels are expensive, and in some places are not sold officially (meaning they can only be bought from smaller resellers with usually much less generous return policies). The newest models are outright unaffordable new. The only ones below $150 are either secondhand or out of support, so that's what poor people are left with? Plus, no headphone jack.

I use Graphene myself, but I dislike absolutism. I don't in the slightest regret buying my Pixel even though $300 is a painful sum to spend on a phone (and it was on the cheaper end if we're talking about up-to-date models!), but I know that my mother would never spend this much on a phone - so I look into Divest or Lineage on more common and affordable phones.

Why does an RSS feed need a "new type" tho? Normal RSS can be hosted by anyone and can be read on so many different readers...

On Tor or I2P

You managed to break multiple phones in less than two years? That's impressive.

Also yeah, 1.5 years is imo too little time to judge whether something is durable.