If they had something better, don’t you think they’d be putting it out front and center? This is akin to all those conspiracy theorists claiming they have proof to back their claims but they just can’t show it to you right now but it’s definitely coming at some indeterminate time in the future.

Yet another example of doing crime at a big enough scale that you get rewarded for it. That’s what this country was built on.

How about current IPhone users who have nothing but lightning cables and decide to upgrade to the new USB-C model?

And then you’ll buy the phone but the screen is sold separately.

People want to say we own the device so we should be able to do whatever we want, but blatantly allowing people to install cracked apps with keyloggers onto their phones unintentionally will get them sued, and ultimately hurt how many people stay using their products.

Imagine every user and password with the site listed was suddenly just accessible by everyone. It would be a hellscape of credit card companies trying to stop accounts because you order 18 pizzas off the dominos app in Georgia, and another 13 sandwiches in the burger king app at the same time in Jersey.

We need to have the freedom to load apps we trust, but if you look at the standard user base, that’s who they have to make the phones for.

It has been 16 years since Android came on the scene. Why do you think that these things are going to become such a big issue now in 2024 and beyond?

I’d also argue that your WPM typed on a keyboard doesn’t make you tech-savvy either. 1950s secretaries could type fast on a typewriter and that didn’t make them tech savvy either.

Because most people pirating are doing it for their own personal entertainment while these companies are doing it to build a commercial product for sale. Pirates that sell access to their collections get a lot of negative attention, even from other people who pirate like me.

But they all explicitly forbid me from using the work I commissioned for commercial purposes

I fear the courts will side with the tech companies on this as regardless of how illegal or immoral a certain act is, if you do it on a large enough scale it becomes “okay” again in the eyes of the system. Genocide, large scale fraud, negligent financial actions, pollution/poisoning, etc. You dump toxic chemicals into one person’s cup and you get the book thrown at you. You dump toxic chemicals into an entire city’s water supply and you pay a paltry fine that is never enough to seriously damage the company because that’s bad for the economy.

I think you may have a much more generous understanding of the current capabilities of AI than what it’s actually capable of. It isn’t Data from Star Trek.

$2.5T currently to be exact

People use it because that’s where the sellers are at. I also liked Craigslist before but Facebook ate their lunch plus one slight advantage from marketplace is seeing who you’re buying from beforehand. It makes it a lot easier to weed out fake listings when you see someone just created their account this year or if they have bad ratings.

Vehicle listings are absolute garbage though as the filtering options are super basic or ridiculous like you can filter by the color of a car but not engine size. I don’t know of a single person who searches for cars/trucks based on their color.

You’re telling me that Sean Connery isn’t Russian? He was so convincing in the role.

I don’t think any of those services will block youtube ads since they’re coming from the same domain as the videos. Only UBlock can block them in a browser. There may be some other YouTube front-end available out there on streaming sticks but they’d likely require root access or some other way of installing unapproved apps.

Yeah they still rely on base stations to transmit/receive the signals.

There’s a reason why AMD with such a lower staff count has managed to leapfrog Intel.

AMD just makes the designs and farms out manufacturing. Intel has to make the designs and manufacture the chips themselves.

Yeah they’ll likely end up melting once global temperatures rise high enough.

Nah they’re using that cloud connection to spy on you and make money on the backend by selling your data.

I don’t think it’s too far out of the realm of possibility considering numerous people buy crashed/scrapped EVs and adapt them into old vehicles or modify them into Franken-cars on Youtube.

And somehow the RPi9 will still need some $90 5V20A USB power supply

Same experience here with any Samsung TV made in the last 10 years. I bought a cheap 40" Samsung in 2010 that worked perfect for a decade, but after buying a new one I had problems immediately with it not recognizing inputs, scrambled screen occasionally when I turn it on, and the menu sticking on screen occasionally.

My BIL has gone through probably 4 separate Samsung QLED TVs in the last several years because they keep breaking on him (coincidentally his kids have also been over the last few days doing laundry because their Samsung washer and dryer is broken for the hundredth time).

I also recently bought an LG OLED (C3) and it’s the best TV I’ve ever used.

Samsung products are just pure garbage now and have been on a steady decline over the last 10 years.