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.

I’m going to argue that it’s a little of both. While I doubt Ofcom have much chance being able to actually recover money through legal channels because of US constitutional amendments, they must have thought about this and the next step is likely to be an even more draconian “great firewall of britain” moment. Which of course will likely be equally as trivial to bypass as the age verification so…

Well it’s not a scam. It works exactly as advertised. But, just like in casinos, the house is always the winner.

I made a multi-threaded UK lottery simulator that draws 68 million lotteries per second on my machine. It shows the ROI on average is around 30% meaning the “house” (lottery company/government/charities) gets 70%. Here’s the last line after 5.1billion draws:

Draws: 5,130,046,351. 3: 56,022,165, 4: 2,521,545, 5: 38,525 5+b 5,918 Jackpots: 113. Losses: 2,491,081,393. Cost £10,260,092,702, Winnings £3,058,100,000 ROI: 29.810%. 68,548,225.400 draws/s

Yes that means you will wait on average 45.4 million draws before you hit the jackpot.

In any case. You could implement the meme like the lottery and make money and I assure you, if you made the full info public people WOULD send you money and you’d keep the 70%…

This is exactly it. It’s always been a risk of being an estate agent/real estate agent. You take on the up-front cost on the basis you will make it back overall in commission in the long term.

12 or so years ago, we were looking at rental properties. And not only was there none of this nonsense. They were finding extra properties to look at, in addition to the one(s) we asked for. They wanted to sell and understood they need to put in the time up-front to get that.

But, if you can get the seller AND the buyer to pay you for your services? Damn, is that a win for them?

So, I think a decade or so ago (maybe more), the bigger corpos went full mask off, and stopped even pretending they cared about anything but making more money. Screw the employees, screw the customer, screw the regulatory departments. Money only.

It seems this is filtering down to more and more businesses.

I am not sure how it is over there. Here in the UK the number of rental properties has dropped drastically. I suspect, it’s because of a few changes legally here that make it not quite so lucrative to buy-to-let any more. In any case, rather than bring house prices down, it just made the rentals still on the market go up in price. As an example today for my postcode there are over 80 properties for sale (excluding retirement/shared properties) and only around 10 for rent with the same filters. It used to be closer to half the number of rental properties up until around 5 or so years ago.

If there’s a seller’s (well landlord’s/renter’s I guess) market, they could for sure make people pay to get an edge on gaining an increasingly rare rental. It’s downright scummy. But, I expect nothing less any more.

They’re out there and not so hidden. If you look, you’ll find them. There’s definitely an iptv community out there.

This story seems a bit weird to me. A lot of iptv operators don’t sell directly to people, rather wholesale to dealers.

So I bet they got a dealer here is all.