Digital media means that there is an ongoing service behind it.

I could download my file and be done with it. If I throw away or damage my super fragile bluray I’m not entitled to a new copy. I don’t even need to be able to redownload (although it’s a nice service). It means there is an ongoing service behind it because they decide it and because they are afraid I will share with my friends - which is about as difficult as finding the media elsewhere online.

With no more cash coming in, the service goes bankrupt.

Same issue with physical media. Suddenly your expensive factory is idle, your employees don’t produce anything. We still get to buy movies and not rent them perpetually.

Why I don’t get is why they fight so hard to promote piracy though. It’s not enough that it’s free, it also has to be easier?

Nah. But attacking Jews who have no part in the genocide merely because they are Jews is.

Denmark. I bought something from the US. About 300 DKK. I had to pay for shipping. About 300 DKK. I had to pay the toll. I had to pay a mandatory 120 DKK fee for the postal service to charge the toll. I had to pay taxes on the fee. I had to pay taxes on the purchase. I had to pay taxes on the shipping.

In the end I paid about 1000 DKK for a 300 DKK package.

Lemmy.ml sucks. I really need to move on.

An Enermax keyboard has been my daily driver as a programmer for my career that started in 2007. It still works just fine and I still have no reason to change to something else. Lots of reasons not to, since I like the classic keyboard layout and the flat laptop keys.

An AI tool was used to add an extra layer to the editing process for this story.

For crying out loud, stop that!

And OIL!

They’ll offer 7 years, and a new phone if you use it for the duration. Then after two years they’ll go “nah, never mind” and drop it altogether.

Or a HURD.

Clones.

Funny you should mention cars. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Well, neither is iso…

Something like this I gather… https://www.dronesforukraine.fund

singular they/them has been in use for literally centuries

Even if has been in use since forever, a more appropriate word can be introduced now.

Why?

Should have named it after sheep.

I’m chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.

I mostly listen on headphones during my workday. I very much prefer to listen on speakers though.