Not sure what you mean. I just saw asterisks.

You know I cannot be the only one that will consciously decide to not buy brands that make intrusive adverts. But, they must also know that. So I can only assume that the majority of people don’t think the same and it’s an overall upside for these annoying ads.

If you want to go super de-centralised. Just remove the internet and go for a mesh network :P

Wait this is still a thing? I remember writing a DCC download bot in arexx on the amiga, back in the mid 90s.

Peter Backman, CEO of theDelivery.World, said the practice was only misleading if customers were purposely trying to support independent restaurants and takeaways.

That’s some high grade bullshit. There is going to be a subset of people (and I’d argue it’s a growing number) that want to support local businesses and so yes it’s misleading to all those people.

But more than that. A corporate/franchise brand has such a huge value they will sue you if you use it without permission. So if they’re choosing not to use a brand they paid good money to use, it can only be because they want to deceive.

It’s true rsi is far more likely to kick in before hinge failure.

Foldable hinge. Good for 10k folds, or 30 minutes of foldy bird.

Samsung did make 1tb phone models. Not sure if they still do. When I got my s24, 1tb was an option.

I upgrade every 4 years or so, and that’s really only because it’s also when battery life usually declines.

These days the only improvement seems to be memory, storage and camera. Somehow I feel some of those will stagnate.

But the new Samsung s28, it’s totally a bigger number than what you have now.

At home I’m on Linux but yes I also have a work laptop and I hate windows more and more daily.

Then I suggest they use an XNOR pointer instead! Checkmate patent trolls!

Huh. I am sure you could search for individual books. For sure you could do it by goodreads ID I think? Yes, adding an entire author as the primary way to do things is a bit much for some. I know for sure I have managed to do individual books before now.

Yep, same. Well I actually remember finding the best ways to copy a game on a tape error free first. Some, without protection you could just save back to tape for a digital reproduction (and this also allowed tape to disk conversion). Actually those with non destructive copy protection could kinda be copied too if you knew a little Z80 ASM. Others, you needed to copy tape to tape and hope the quality turned out OK.

But yes, then bringing your box of copied disks (Amiga in my case) into school and swapping with your friends was the way to go.

That’s fine. I’ll make my own internet. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the internet!

It’s a real shame because Readarr did work and they really just needed to fix their own metadata servers. No? Or were there other problems I’m not aware of?

It’s a coat hanger.

Yes. But one less thing it can do.

Yes. I host a vpn at my house. Then vpn in on fire stick/laptop etc. No problems to date.

I think the problem is that this is one part of the puzzle. Samsung are doing the other half. Locked bootloader. I fully expect the bigger manufacturers to go with both for a “fully trusted platform”. That’s how they will sell it at least.

The only question is, who will be making the unlocked phones and how much will they cost us?

I’m sure I’ve said all this before. But still. LLMS are very useful tools I don’t doubt that. The problem that no organisation that is “embracing” AI is really considering is how they work.

They essentially rewrite code or art or content they have seen before. If they replace developers, artists and authors/article writers wholesale the only source of new content will be, other AI.

It’s been known from the start that AI feeding on AI very quickly degenerates today garbage in garbage out.

They are also (currently) unable to innovate. So use of AI is going to stifle innovation or even completely kill it.

These are the medium to longer term problems that might only be really realised when the developers, artists and authors have moved onto other work and a lot might just not want to come back.

That’s my main problem with the wholesale use of AI. Used as a tool to complement people doing their job, makes sense and is possible to maintain going forward.