Y’know the French did this “publicly execute the rich” thing before. Worked out pretty great for them… maybe we should learn a thing or two.

The only books I have physical copies of are for ttrpgs. And even then I have a digital copy.

Most Blu-ray’s now come with digital files. You can upload these to a server like Plex (this requires you to setup a Plex server which I don’t expect the average consumer to be capable of, but uploading it to a MacBook or whatever is basically enough) to digitise your collection. Now you still own the physical media, and have a digital version of it as well.

And this is completely legal.

You could also skip the buying the physical Blu-ray part. But that is less than legal (but you’re unlikely to get caught… just saying, yar har)

As the owner of a Victoria Arduino E1… it is not smart. They tried. My DE1XL was the better machine, for $2,000 less.

Also, pretty sure it’s illegal in California to under CCPA, but there they could just turn off the lights. Which is why CCPA needs change in functionality clauses.

But your S23 Ultra also uses the most common cable type for a charger. That isn’t proprietary. That you likely already have a good several of.

Yes you do. S20 Ultra, No Premium, I can PiP.

Also unfortunately: their video player fucking sucks.

If they can barely afford the insurance and hit you their insurance isn’t paying.

I’ve been hit by red light runners thrice and while biking in a parking lot (ironically got more injured here) and only two times the drivers didn’t have insurance… not a single one paid out.

Insurance is a scam and defending it is akin to defending a Ponzi scheme imo.

I have gotten into an accident with an uninsured driver. Twice. Both their fault (running reds out near Mulholland).

I think there should be no requirement or a govt funded baseline

This. I was too young for Obamacare to be something I knew a single thing about but as a car owner and leftist auto insurance has always rubbed me wrong.

It’s just another means to keep people from being hireable by denying them jobs due to shitty public transit and the inability to legally drive their cars.

Seeing as our (Cali) CCPA is about as strict (if not moreso) than the GDPR it’s not a longshot that they might.

Which this isn’t totally solving. Don’t get me wrong this is a good thing. But the real issue with planned obsolescence is OS support.

It’s Quora.

Oh hey I’m relevant! I actually got a message from Reddit back when I was selling porn 2-3 years ago. What did it say you might ask.

It was a cease and desist for using Reddit to push “obscene and questionable materials” involving “abuse of disabled individuals” because my wheelchair was visible in a few of my stuffs. Not to mention the only reason I needed the wheelchair was cause I had to get an appendix removed and that combined with my heart problem made walking difficult.

The issue is this kind of “charity” is just trying to slap a bandaid on a bursting artery. Not to mention philanthropy in general is a pretty morally grey concept (because capitalism sucks and doesn’t work)

It’s Google and Microsoft tactics.

Same. On liftoff until Sync releases and then I’ll really have to decide which I like more. It might be hard choice though, liftoff is really good (in its early state) but Sync has the benefit of aggregating information and seeing what users want (and knowing that many want what Sync offered for Reddit on Lemmy)