Likewise, just cancelled Disney+ and Hulu last month, along with Paramount+, and Netflix.
Only still have AppleTV+ because it's still cheap. And then Max because it's included in our cell service, and Amazon for the shipping, but I don't really use either, and am looking into the feasibility of dropping Prime, if I can convince the wife.
I was under the impression that software like PowerDVD could play 4K HDR media if you're using Windows.
And at the end of the day, it is also (generally accepted as 'probably') legal to decrypt the media using whatever other methods available as long as you are only doing so to back up or enable viewing for yourself.
You literally just listed some of the reasons IRC is better. That said, I don't see any reason an IRC client couldn't be made to support images, with the understanding that it would have to be done in a way that falls back to posting it as a link for people using text-only clients, but that shouldn't be too difficult.
can't message people when they're offline,
This functionality can be enabled on IRC servers or on a per-channel basis using bots.
it's not clear how I can easily setup my own server.
Again an advantage of IRC. Not every group of 2 people need their own server. And a simple 2 second Google search (or learning your IRC client) will show you how to create your own channel in seconds.
the discoverability with any IRC
client tends to be in the negatives.
That really depends on the client. There are (or at least used to be) plenty of user-friendly IRC clients. How many alternate clients can I use with Discord?
And heaven forbid someone should have to think for more than 3 seconds when learning something new to them.
I swear I sometimes think that once all of us Gen-Xers are gone, there won't be anyone left who actually understands how the Internet or the technology that runs on it actually works, as prophesied by Idiocracy.
It seems like you don't understand the point of time blindness then. How do you "leave earlier" when you completely lose track of time?
Hell, even for work meetings, I have to have the most obnoxiously loud and annoying notification alert on my work computer that can be heard throughout the entire house, and I still end up late to some meetings, even though I'm already sitting at my desk.
Your post is like complaining that a blind person just needs to open their eyes if they want to see, or they're just a moron or an asshole. It shows profound ignorance about the subject and complete lack of empathy for people who have a problem that you don't have direct experience with.
No, but apparently people are going to be a cunt about it if one chooses not to say it.