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
The “line cook” is fucking jacked tho
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
You can also replace the content, depending on how their system is done.
Also we do have GDPR and CPPA if you want to go nuclear on your data
It’s not for the companies, it’s for the keyboard warriors looking for dirt when they get angry.
Case in point: James Gunn getting fired because of decade old tweets
There’s no reason to have anything older than 12 months on Twitter, just auto delete anything older.
Even 6 months should be good.
If you’re the type who uses Twitter as a blogging platform, grab that shit and self-host it.
By not letting a Russian asset buy it
Germans are weird like that
The rest of us are normal and will take a painkiller
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
He has to or else it gets the hose