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  • 'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested

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  • Honestly, from what I've seen, I actually agree with Macron here. France's debt is unsustainable, something needs to be done, and nobody wants to do anything. Both Le Penne and Melenchon are calling for policies that will increase the debt burden, yet any attempt to reduce it is getting struck down at the mere thought. A retirement age of 62 in a country with an average life expectency of 82 (and many people living over that) is crazy to me, especially at a time when there are more and more old people compared to working-age people. That isn't sustainable, but any mention of raising it gets insane backlash. You can't really raise taxes much more, they're already high, you can for wealthy people, but that will only go part of the way, and with the new NATO targets, if nothing is done, I feel like France will become another Greece.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • I'm not quite sure I understood what you were talking about, but they specifically showed their revenues from YouTube AdSense for the past year or so, and they showed exactly how much they gained from each video, and it shows basically a straight line, whilst the same graph for viewers shows a substantial decrease. I'm not sure if that was specifically for LTT or for all of their channels, but I'm assuming it was just for LTT. That has no relation to them then splitting their revenues to their different channels.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • He will look for answers literally anywhere, except for within.

    The tech scene is just not as interesting anymore

    He has literally publicly talked about this many times, he is very much aware of this fact and has stated that he's always looking for things that he can try and make interesting.

    and the stuff he specifically covers is even less interesting. But the bigger issue is that everything LMG do is just corporate jank. It was fun when it was home garage jank, with 2 employees, but now it's just miserable and frustrating

    On this part, I honestly don't quite get it. It's definitely a bit more corporate now, they are a 100 person company, but when it comes to the videos, I don't really see what else you'd want them to do? Sure they have some sponsored videos every now and then that are just showcases of a specific product, but even then I typically find them relatively interesting. And they still have a lot of videos where they're trying to build novel stuff and thinkering. Yeah, sure, it's typically on a higher level than what the average Joe would be capable of doing in their backyard, but I still feel like there's a place for it. Take one of the more recent videos, the one with the double-decker table. It's extremely cool to me, they took a regular table and a sit-to-stand desk, put one on top of the other, and made effectively two desks in one, one for gaming and one for a hobby. It's not something I'd build for myself, but it's a really fun concept.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • The more interesting part for me, that they mentioned on the WAN show, is that while viewers dropped significantly, the revenue basically hasn't changed. They're more or less making the same amount of money from half the amount of reported viewers.

  • Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case

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  • I mean, of all the things to cut off of them, Chrome made the least sense to me. It's not a profitable part of the business, it would just die if spun off. The only reason Firefox is alive is because Google is funding them. Plus changing what browser you use is much easier than some of the other monopolies they have (Android, ads, YouTube).

  • AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access

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  • Again, Europe is far more densely populated than the US. The EU's population density is 106/km², the US is 37. The least dense country is Finland with 16/km², but they're a rich country with not a large population so it's not surprising for them to not have dial up. Runner up is Sweden with 24 but they are yet again a rich country. For context, there are 10 states in the US that have a smaller population density than Finland. Combine this with the US not having that good of public infrastructure because they mostly have private everything, I don't find it surprising at all that Europe doesn't have dial-up and the US does.

  • Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report

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  • I mean, that much is obvious. If you could do without two pilots it would be very inefficient to have two per flight, but you can't, so it's a very stupid idea.

  • AI bro discovering imagination

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  • For me, the best way I can describe what it feels like for me is: I can imagine an apple and I get a feeling as if I was seeing it, but I don't actually see it. I don't see an image in front of me. I only feel like I'm seeing an image, and I have to focus pretty hard to see anything in detail, but I can still use it to, for example, try and manipulate something in 3D, or try to remember what I was doing on a given day by trying to walk back through a place. I don't know under what category that makes me fall under.

  • Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity

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  • From what the article says, it's actually a pretty cool way of improving desalination plants. They use the left over brine, from desalination, that has a very high concentration of salt, and use it as the high salt concentration side, with regular seawater being used on the other side. This both gives them free energy and reduces the side effects of pumping that extremely salty water into the sea by diluting it.

  • Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat

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  • Yeah but my understanding was that an important part of the EU is the negotiation of trade deals that regulate tariffs, and that the countries more or less gave their sovereignty in that area to the EU. Maybe I was mistaken?

  • Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat

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  • Wait, how does this work? I am for the EU to retaliate with tariffs against the US, but how is Poland able to do it by itself? Isn't the EU supposed to have a common trade policy?

  • 2 men publicly caned for hugging and kissing in Indonesia

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  • I read that as canned and was confused as to why they were turned into produce.

  • LPT: Go get a shot, now.

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  • There's more people in the US

    ?? How is that relevant

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  • I personally don't have a need for it, but if someone has a 4K 120Hz TV or monitor without DisplayPort that they want to use as such, it's kinda stupid that they can't.

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  • Except that AMD doesn't support HDMI 2.1 on Linux (not their fault to be fair, but still)

  • The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)

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  • I didn't realize you weren't the original commenter. But still, AI is a fairly new focus and small phones have been on the way out for a long while. I don't know the reason why they discontinued the iPhone minis and didn't discontinue the iPad mini, but ultimately, the conversation was about Fairphone and my point was that the actual demand for small form factor phones isn't as large as some people make it out to be, and as such, it would not make sense for Fairphone to make one.

    And as a side another note, the Apple Vision Pro is a strategic investment into future technologies. The product isn't meant to be successful in and of itself, it's meant to be a first step, so Apple could get a foothold into the market. And when hopefully VR becomes big in the future, they can capitalize on it. Small form factor phones aren't a new technology, so this isn't really comparable.

  • The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)

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  • I mean, I get that. It's just that I'm triggered by the amount of people that constantly comment on every thread raging about how dare they not include a headphone jack. It's insane how loud this minority is when in real life very few people actually care about it.

  • The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)

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  • I was more so focusing on the overall user experience, so including the ease of use and the convenience of not having to fight with a cable. I definitely agree that Bluetooth earbuds aren't perfect. They have their issues. But I feel like for the general user, they objectively offer an improved experience. 90 or 95% of people can't hear the difference between wired and wireless earbuds. If you don't care about audio quality then I feel like it has objectively more upsides than it has downsides. As people mentioned about cars and the like, there are instances where having a headphone jack is necessary, but I feel like the number of cases where this issue is unavoidable and is a real problem for people is so minuscule that it's not worth it for the companies to bother.

    I mean, in the end, I personally don't care if a phone has a headphone jack. It's not like I wouldn't buy it because it has one. I was more so triggered by the people constantly screaming at every phone for not having a headphone jack, when in reality it's not important for most people.

  • The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)

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  • It’s not that nobody wants them it’s that no company wants to make a phone that can’t run all the services they are trying to get you to subscribe to

    That doesn't really make that much sense. A toaster can run most apps people use nowadays. Apple would sell you a brick if it had their App Store on it. There is an argument that they want to upsell you to bigger phones so that you pay more for the device itself, but if it was really worth it for them to offer smaller versions, I'm sure they would. Their biggest profits by far are from the App Store. And if they really were ignoring that market in the hopes of upselling people, then other companies would offer mini phones and people that want them would switch. But they're basically nonexistent.

    Case and point, mini version accounted for barely 5% of sales in 2021: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apples-iphone-13-mini-is-over-ending-this-small-screen-fan-favorite/

    Do you really think that Fairphone, a company with sales in the thousands, should cater to five percent of the market? And comparing this to the SteamDeck is also not really fair, because Valve owns Steam and they subsidize SteamDecks via purchases from Steam. Fairphone doesn't earn anything from purchases made on the Play Store. And in addition the SteamDeck is considered a success because it captured like 50% of the market when it released. The market is in general really small for these devices, but the SteamDeck was a notable success because it managed to become the go-to device. Were the market for handheld consoles as big as the phone market, the SteamDeck very much would not be considered a success.