Hold the IP, harvest cash - by license or court, eliminate running costs. Presuming Weta has not open sourced all of their processes, they’re basically now a patent troll for anything previously developed.

Wait…they sell games, too?

What the devil?

Netflix for online journalism/news

So, like, regular removals of older material and ever increasing prices and restrictions? Oh, yeah, sign me up.

Even the biggest phones, imo, just don’t have the real estate for decent note taking. Tablets, esp with low aspect ratio screens, are the sweet spot.

Many years ago I switched from iOS to Android specifically because android allowed you to circumvent carrier restrictions on hotspot functionality (at least unofficially). I guess Ajit Pai has bent the knee to telecoms now.

Reminder - gas prices cannot be hiked by suppliers because they don’t own the gas. Petroleum products are bought and sold on commodity markets before they’re ever refined or even removed from the ground. These “futures” are bought and sold and the price at the pump is related to the current price to purchase the product from the commodity brokers, plus transportation and local markup.

There are legitimate uses for futures contracts, but much of it is just gambling and capitalistic opportunism.

Yeah, but can you do it offline/without an active internet connection - the preinstalled windows Netflix app can.

Most of the things you say are missing are installed by default, though some require you to know how to use the command line. Which reminds me…how do you install the Netflix app on Linux? I’d like to watch some shows on my new laptop while I’m on the train.

They’re wrong, of course.

You don’t have to enter a license key.

You guys are using apps?

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I’m still figuring out the controls for Lemmy. How do you delete someone else’s post?

Roses are red Groot is neat His suit too big For his got dam feet

If I live to 100 I probably won’t work through that backlog.

Gotta save this one for Father’s Day next year.

IKR? For what they wanted I could get a faster full size machine with better expandability. I get the value in a small box, but unless you had some commercial application or wanted some special architectural aesthetic in your home that required that size, it was a waste of money.

That’s sort of how I do mine. I put all my data onto dropbox/onedrive. I’ve got a $100 HP USFF hooked up in my office that is a 100% online mirror for those cloud accounts, and it backs up to an 8TB external each week. I rotate that drive with a spare each month (give or take), putting the “offline” one in a firesafe. It means I have a live copy (my pc), a cloud copy (OD/DB), a second hot copy (USFF PC), a near-line backup no more than 7 days old that isn’t “live” and a cold storage copy that is no more than a month old (aka less than Apple’s deleted-pictures and Dropbox’s previous version storage time). It cost me two external drives and the mini-pc. And if all those fail I’ll probably be roaming the radioactive wasteland looking for food and losing that data won’t matter.

Oh, and that little box also runs a small FTP server and my Torrents for my Linux distro collection.

Ahh, the Trump maneuver.

1Password is an expense I cringe at every year. After trying several others, though,I settled on its expensive-but-simple option. The biggest advantage is that my family uses it - wife, daughter, parents, in-laws - on my family account. We have several shared vaults for passwords which affect subsets from in-laws sharing critical financial passwords with her, my parents with me, to my daughter and I teaming up on Starbucks and Panera.

The best part is that it’s simple enough for our octogenarian parents to use, and I help set it all up and got their emergency recovery kits created, filled out, and stored in their safety deposit boxes. As long as I can keep them using it I’ll keep paying for it.

Yes and no. I have a Velodyne 15HGS sub that is hidden in the corner to the right (got that baby in a mass buy in ‘01, still going strong), and picked up a 7 speaker Velodyne satellite-style surround set on clearance for this room (edit: orig installation was in ~2007). It’s not amazing, per se (it’s no M&K, that’s for sure), but the effect in my small-ish room (15’x15’x7.5’) along with the LFE from the sub is enveloping.