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And I'd rather not use YouTube! I want nothing at all to do with google. They quite simply do not deserve my money . How much money has google made on selling my data? What do I ge…

I understand, and I empathize. I'm not going to tell you that happy thoughts and a motivational poster will fix you. I will say that once you get past the stage you're in and have …

I think it's a pretty pragmatic view. The political system has no interest or even real incentive to fix climate change. Money has corrupted our governments too deeply to alter cou…

What would happen if you went around to every house in your neighborhood and smashed everyone's printers? Would you be fined 0.01% of the cost of damaged items, or would you go to …

So they... increased padding on all elements? Is that really what this is? I suppose it could be worse. They could have done what jetbrains just did and replace all the text with m…

There is no good answer. Adderall is a miracle drug for people like us. To get by without, you have two options: incredible discipline and force of will, and overcompensating with …

> by that kind of logic people shouldn't make any recurring purchase of anything since in future terms might change. 20 years ago, you'd be right. This argument would be paranoid n…

Yeah, I'm pretty okay with sponsored segments. By and large, the people I watch only accept sponsors that appear to be legitimate, and the read is generally "here's this service an…

I don't want to pay YouTube I'm happy subscribing to creators' patreons or Kofi or whatever because almost all of my money goes to them. Whereas on YouTube, most of my money or ad-…

If someone offered you $5000 to change the email address you've used on every website for a decade, would you? All of your banking and financial accounts, your phone and utility bi…

I am the proud owner of my own firstnamelastname.com When I first ventured into web hosting, the domain was dead, but still registered. I did a whois and got Firstname Lastname. No…

I ran my own peertube server for a while. You can configure your server to download and mirror videos from other instances, but (iirc) only if the remote instance allows it, and if…

After having been through this crap and now being on the other side of the desk, I've come to the conclusion that this is simply standardized testing for adults, with all of the sa…

1. There's no defense against an attacker with physical access 2. The malware you're describing is the main argument against smart TVs. It's installed by the manufacturer, at the f…

Just because a problem doesn't affect you personally doesn't mean that it isn't a problem.

Did you read the comment you replied to? Because it was a direct response to comments exactly like this one.

That is really not how that works. A smart TV is a dumb TV with an extra processor. No matter how you shake it, the smart features are extra hardware added on to the dumb TV. And b…

I do Bluetooth hardware for my job. At the scale that TV manufacturers operate at, I would be extremely surprised if Bluetooth cost more than a dollar for them to implement. I oper…

"but what about!" Your question is answered in the comment you replied to

"the market" is why we're in this situation. The healthcare cost crisis is simply not a problem that capitalism has any mechanism to address. Capitalism balances supply and demand …

"just don't connect it to the internet" is such a typical HN response that completely misses the point. A smart TV with no internet connection is still a smart TV. It still has an …

Wait, is this new? This is exactly how I'd assumed quantum calculations worked already

Shouldn't fear of horrible, gruesome, painful death deter anyone from using their phone in the car ever? People simply don't work like that.

I can't decide if replacing names from a gay newspaper with fruit is offensive or hilarious

Every coax system in every house I've ever seen (in the US) has been a mishmash of cables and splitters of random length and quality, usually with unterminated branches. That means…