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  • But now it's been renamed YouTube Pay, and requires Premium subscription. ^/s

  • Exactly. Don't have cheap web cams pointed inside the home, and it'll be fine. Have them outside, watching doors and gates, providing security videos of shadows and wildlife, whatever. They can still be useful tools.

  • The special op is... just a bit slow, bless its heart.

  • What kills me is that just a couple morons can contaminate a large batch of recyclables, that could've otherwise been perfect. But I guess humanity will always have this sort of problem, until it kills us.

  • What a deal. Save 25%, get rid of the cancer that's killing Tesla.

  • I'm amazed her team of lawyers haven't filed a lawsuit yet. Just collecting evidence for now, I suppose. But it's starting to pile up quickly.

  • Agreed. To be clear, I only meant this in the most insulting way to Apple, the proud engineers of $300 goggle straps and $1000 monitor stands.

  • Just extracting wealth from the cult fans and tech illiterate. And they will keep pushing the insane prices, until people stop paying (sounds familiar). I wish they'd use their absurd profits to actually bring to market something truly spectacular. Dyson makes more daring and innovative products, funded by vacuums, heh.

  • Perhaps true from his... perspective. I've found JXL surprisingly awesome and easy to use (size, quality, speed, intuitive encoding options with lossless, supported in XnView & XnConvert for easy batches). AVIF was terrible in real-world use last I tried (and blurs fine details).

    I'm still a big Mozilla & Firefox fan, but a few decisions over past few years seem like they're being dictated or vetoed by a few lofty individuals (while ignoring popular user requests). Sad.

  • I think of "thumb drives" as portable SSD with USB. "Portable backup drives" have taken its place for me. Incredibly fast (NVMe SSD + USB-C), quite small (M2 card size + case), durable (same as thumb drives), growing sizes (1-2 TB affordable).

    I keep my old flash drives for smaller things like bootable apps, fresh OS installs, firmware updates. I definitely have no need for mystery off-brand storage though.

  • I think most people, by far, don't know how to use (or want to pay for) a VPN. What they'll do is use one of the other porn sites. There are probably dozens! And it will push sites to operate outside of US and ignore our dumb state laws.

  • I don't mean to give all credit to Tesla, for the success of BYD. But let's not pretend that many Chinese companies haven't earned the reputation for (or even specialized in) "quickly learning" and "producing similar work" from competitors. Tesla still entered the country enthusiastically (sold hard-fought knowledge for short term gain), and are already losing their grip. Best of luck to anyone creating affordable EVs.

  • I didn't realize China had already copied Tesla's product. Absolute lol at M*** for heavily manufacturing there (not just parts, but everything). Copy, paste, rename... BYD.

  • Exactly. I think an aftermarket VESA mount is pretty much required these days for modern TVs, that's the bad news. The good news is that there are plenty of options (center base, wall, swivel, etc), some very affordable, and they should last for multiple TV generations (check VESA pattern, weight limits).

    But I get that these tiny, wide feet can be mind boggling at first, since TVs all used to have center stands for decades. Finally, TVs got too large, the cost savings and stability from two tiny feet won out over the alternative of the large, heavy single center base.