I work in ecommerce, so the answer is “ours”. I get far too many calls saying “Do you sell x”, or “How much is y”, and because of how terrible our website’s search function is, I can’t just say “use the fucking website, that’s what it’s there for” like I desperately want to.

We all know they use Signal, anyway.

Custom ROMs were always a pretty niche thing, and they’ve become much less worth it since:

Stock Android doesn’t suck as much as it used to

Banking Apps aren’t guaranteed to work

VoLTE doesn’t work (this might depend on phone model)

Most manufacturers now offer software support for a reasonable length of time

So unless there’s an old feature you want to keep (LG Quad DAC diehards represent), or you’re super privacy-conscious, most people aren’t going to bother.

Me saying “RIP” was an attempt at hyperbole. That being said, shoehorning AI into something for which a big selling point is that it’s user-made is a gigantic misstep - Maybe they’ll listen to everybody, but given that they tried it at all, I can’t see them properly backing down. Especially when it was worded as “pausing” the experiment.

If they thought this would be well-received they wouldn’t have sprung it on people. The fact that they’re only “pausing the launch of the experiment” means they’re going to do it again once the backlash has subsided.

RIP Wikipedia, it was a fun 24 years.

Have you tried printing on a raft?

Yeah, I didn’t consider that the exchange rate in 2012 was really good. With the new price and today’s exchange rate, it would be $180 NZD, which isn’t the end of the world, but feels kind of wrong because electronics generally get cheaper the longer they’re on the market.

That being said, it isn’t just Kindles. Kobos used to be ridiculously cheap, and now they’re the same price as Kindles if not more.

It’s crazy. I bought the then-current basic model Kindle for $90 NZD in 2012, which still works. I recently started looking for a new eReader with USB C and without the rubberised coating that slowly turns back into oil. The cheapest I’ve found is over $200.

On the one hand, it’s about time - APT was released in 1998, and it wasn’t even the first package manager.

On the other hand, I’m sure Microsoft will find a way to make it shit.

It’s still in active development, but you might want to keep an eye on Plasma Bigscreen. I’ve been looking for a similar setup to you, and it seems to tick all of the boxes, at least for me.

I only learned about it recently, and I’ve been too busy to try it in that time, but I’ll edit this post with my impressions once I get the time to have a play with it.

Pirates never had Sony install a rootkit on their computer. Paying customers did, though.

Imagine downvoting “Be careful what you expose to the internet”. I thought I’d got away from Reddit.

Well this thread is an absolute shitshow.

Jellyfin is great, but if you refuse to let yourself understand that Plex’s ease of setup for remote access is a point in its favour - especially when sharing with non-tech savvy people - then you’re just as bad as the supposed “Plex shills”.

Plex is well on the enshittification train, and I’ve always been a bit concerned about how private it may or may not be, but there’s absolutely no way I’d have been able to share a Jellyfin instance with my grandfather, especially as his dementia got worse.

If you have a 3D printer that can’t connect to the internet, you could try Octoprint.

or going to a protest

I’d suggest you may be better off not bringing your phone at all, in this case.

This clearly isn’t true though, otherwise there wouldn’t be so much FOSS software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages

Buy never software

What is possible is to use the bicycle to bypass smaller walls, which means that the AI is linking the two together, which is actually scary and shows, perhaps, tiny glimpses into future AGI.

I have no love for AI, but whoever wrote this article has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. This simply isn’t a thing in the OG Pokemon games.

I really need to stop being lazy and swap to Jellyfin…

If you’re buying a PC that doesn’t have the specs to run Windows 11, you’re probably only using it for web browsing tasks anyway. I’d wager that many of them wouldn’t even notice that they’re using a different OS.