Fuck me, I actually would like to hear what MTG thinks about this.

The court’s “justification” (which is obviously bullshit, but nevertheless the argument) is that allowing him to keep making money increases his ability to pay the judgement.

Relevant Strong Towns

He couldn’t have been arrested for copyright infringement; that offense was perpetrated by the entity that sold the thing to him, not himself.

It’s always projection.

More governments need to tax externalized costs.

the debate basically comes down to “technically linux” (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and “spiritually linux” (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it).

This is why Stallman tried to insist on “GNU/”. As usual, he was right.

Now find a map of wealth inequality and see how well they correlate.

high resolution, high bitrate video files are pretty large.

Can it actually transfer data fast enough to save or play them back in real-time, though?

That’s a use-case for a fuckton of total capacity, but not necessarily a fuckton of per-drive capacity. I think what the grandparent comment is really trying to say is that the capacity has so vastly outstripped mechanical-disk data transfer speed that it’s hard to actually make use of it all.

For example, let’s say you have these running in a RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fails and you have to swap it out. At 190MB/s max sustained transfer rate (figure for a 28TB Seagate Exos; I assume this new one is similar), you’re talking about over two days just to copy over the parity information and get the array out of degraded mode! At some point these big drives stop being suitable for that use-case just because the vulnerability window is so large that the risk of a second drive failure causing data loss is too great.

I’ve got some bad news about the quality of your neighbors.

Delorean built his cars in Northern Ireland during the Troubles while also smuggling drugs to try to keep the company solvent, and he still managed to produce a better vehicle than Musk did. At least Delorean managed to pick a stainless steel alloy that was actually stainless!

Hmm… Well, I guess that’s not as bad, but it’s still a little inconvenient since it would require Class 1 and 2 ebike riders to more carefully monitor their speed instead of just riding all the way up to the assisted top speed knowing that they’re still in compliance.

We could have had Scheme or Python (both of which are also cross-platform, BTW) embedded in the browser instead. And yes, Netscape was seriously considering those two specific languages before Eich oozed into the situation and fucked it all up.

Javascript did not “need” to happen. The only reasons it exists are Not-Invented-Here and Dunning-Kruger Syndromes (specifically, Netscape wanting something new and vaguely Algol-like that they could name to glom onto the Java hype at the time, and Eich having the inexperience and hubris to think he could hack together a half-assed design in a week and it would somehow turn out okay).

Yes it’s grown out of something that was originally messy, but a lot of work has been done to make it better.

Yeah, no shit! Literally millions upon millions of man-hours, probably! Do you have any concept at all of how much better the Web could have been if all that effort had been put towards something actually useful instead of working around Eich’s mistakes?!

Fake: you said yourself that you made it with photoshop in response to the other greentext

Gay: “Femanons?” Female 4chan users? I don’t think they exist.

There was an LTT video last year that recommended a $20 ‘Onn.’ (Walmart store brand) Android TV for its ability to be rooted/hacked. I bought a couple to replace my Roku, but haven’t actually gotten around to messing with them yet.

If it hasn’t changed/been locked down since then, I think it’s a better option than a Raspberry Pi at over twice the price (you forgot the cost of the case and power supply, BTW).

I’m so used to computer-things being files I edit sovereignly on my device that I find it hard to understand the serfware.

I like your framing and terminology!

“Respect” for you as the user means you shouldn’t have to do stuff like that in the first place.

Who also inflicted Javascript upon the world, the incompetent piece of shit.

I won’t say that’s worse than the homophobia because I don’t want to seem dismissive about oppression of queer folks, but it sure as Hell isn’t better, either!

Oh look, a troll who thinks he came up with a ‘gotcha’ question is getting ratio’d because everybody rightfully recognizes it as the bad faith bullshit it is.