nimpnin @ nimpnin @sopuli.xyz

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when the battery inevitably degrades, you’ll still have solid battery life.

We used to have user replaceable batteries. The companies stopped making them and few people cared

I really don't think the average person cares at all about improving the current picture quality of phone cameras. The pictures get posted on instagram or sent on a messaging app, and looked at once on a 6 inch screen. They are not getting printed. Most people wouldn't even notice.

Battery life is a thing people would maybe appreciate, but then again, people seem to be fine with charging their phones overnight, and current phones seem to last one day on one charge.

Most people don't really care about cool tech, they want a phone that just works

When he is forced to.

cato institute

Lol

I mean it can work, at least in theory. I’d have to take a more comprehensive look at Estonia’s case. I will not take that source at face value though.

But recently I’ve seen analyses of both the UK and the southern EU countries’ austerity policies being failures. And that’s multiple countries with very different economies.

Austerity doesn’t work

Thats a lot of cigarettes

Given that the general population doesn’t even know how allergies work half the time, it makes even more sense to ban peanuts on flights

The problem is that the producer’s business model is based on making and selling copies

This is all too vague to actually understand the effect of piracy. The economic impact depends how much piracy replaces actual purchases.

When I was a teenager, I would pirate a lot of music. At the time, I had very little money to spend. This copying did not replace any purchases. On the other hand, me not buying music right now is a lost purchase since I could spend money. That's why I spend some money every month actually buying music from bandcamp or whatever, which offsets the revenue that the musicians would otherwise lose.

Also, if the artist has other revenue streams, it doesn't matter as much. Musicians for example don't make a lot of money off of streaming nowadays, and a lot of their revenue comes from merch and concert tickets etc. So if you spend money there, copying doesn't really bankrupt the artist.

Of course each type of media has slightly different mechanics, but in general there are a lot of ways you can do piracy without really undermining the business model of the artists. And very rarely are the effects the same as for theft.

maybe all the stats have eroded any intuition I had for these words

Probability is a numeric value between: 0 and 1 of how likely an event is going to happen. Depending on the definition, I would say that possibilities and plausabilities are both events with a nonzero probability. Colloquially, possibilities are more likely than plausabilities I guess. Source: two thirds of a stats phd and C2 level english skills lol

Why are people so bad at doing things in moderation

Since 720p downloading isn't really available on yt-dlp anymore, I made an alias for it

 bash

    
alias yt720p="yt-dlp -S vcodec:h264,fps,res:720,acodec:m4a"

  

I have no interest discussing in your extrapolations of OP's motivations and behavior

Wouldn’t it be nice to share a hobby or personal interest with someone you are romantically and sexually involved in, too?

I've had a lot of different hobbies over the past ~ 10 years, some for a shorter and some for a longer time. Not once has that resulted in a genuine romantic connection. Not even a date.

On the other hand, I have had a lot of success finding romantic partners both on dating apps and in bars. All of the partners I've found that way have been at least somewhat likeminded and I've shared interests and hobbies with them. On an app, you see the person's interests in the profile, in a bar you can talk to them and find out whether you have something in common.

Maybe it's against the etiquette to seek out romantic partners at hobby events around here (a nordic country). Maybe I just personally don't like doing that. Either way, I totally understand if somebody wants to date in spaces that specifically cater to that.

I would say no. While they make the process more superficial and gamify it to the gain of the companies rather than the users, lots of people find partners on dating apps. A quick google reveals that already in 2017 dating apps were the leading way couples originally met.

So I would at least try them, just keep in mind how they work and what the incentives are. And don’t take it personally if you don’t get a lot of matches - that happens to a lot of people. Also I would definitely not pay for a subscription, that’s the scam part.

Kindle Paperwhite 2

I just bought a used kindle and jailbroke it a few weeks ago for a similar use case

For normie protestors, leaving your phone home works perfectly well

The orginal version was ”grass is free”