I did the math and with current HDD prices it’s legit cheaper to rip DVDs as 1:1 copies and store them on a NAS vs buying the shelf space my 1000+ movies and TV shows would need.

I’ll keep physical copies of the rares and classics, but the rest will be donated after I’ve digitised them.

In Finland fines are based on percentage of yearly income.

We’re still waiting for Bezos to come here and get a massive speeding ticket to fix our budget for the next decade

Mastodon has protocol level issues that prevent it from being fully mainstream though.

As long as people move out of Twitter, I count it as a win. Especially when we get official government stuff out of there - which won’t happen for the US, but the rest of us have a chance

Twitter started dying when they closed the API

Bluesky’s is perfectly operational

By not letting a Russian asset buy it

The problem with matter is that EVERY update to a device must be certified and that costs money.

So brands are sticking with the proprietary hub model so they can iterate faster

Any M-series Mac will do too

He can be, but they won’t.

The common people are the ones who overthrow the dictator eventually

They weren’t just random Russians, they were working for companies under sanctions.

What were they supposed to do? Ignore the sanctions?

A Mac is not a Windows PC

The last time I turned off my Mac Mini was when we moved. The time before that was when my UPS battery died and I had to swap a new one in.

I do reboot it though, but why would I bother turning it off?

The previous model has it in the back, you can’t even feel it properly because it’s not recessed.

On the other hand the last time I turned off my M1 mini was when we moved. It’s 100% silent and takes less power than a lightbulb when it sleeps, so why would I bother powering it off.

You can get cheaper options with 10G nics in the same form factor

But usually the retention departments have the most leeway to give you discounts 😀

Just call and threaten to cancel and suddenly you get 50% off for 6 months or something.

(Works very well with Audible, the further you go in the cancel flow on the website, the bigger discounts you get - you can repeat the “I quit” threat about once a year.)

People should be of legal age before officially joining a religion.

You’re acting like Wikipedia talk pages and especially news site comment sections are some bastions of discourse 😆

They’re all cesspools of shit that don’t bring any joy to anyone except trolls, pedants and energy vampires

And Russians are peaceophobes? 😆

Basically it’s “I can’t get ✨ engagement ✨ on Mastodon”

People want big amounts of likes and reposts you don’t get that on Mastodon, the system is too distributed for that.

Bluesky gives them the big numbers

Said by someone who gas never experienced a sound bar

Alec also clearly says which article he used as a source and credits the author