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I've been a "digital packrat" for ages and in my experience storing things like video files in external hard-disks has been the superior option since around the time of Bluray and Xvid encoding (so, from around the mid 00s).

Further, whilst most of my collection from back in the days of recordable DVDs is stuck in them until I have the patience to transfer them (which would be many days worth of work), upgrading the harddisk storage over time as you need more storage is a breeze.

Also thanks to me using HDDs for media storage I've had easy access to my media collection from the comfort of my living room for almost 2 decades, since I put those disks on a homemade NAS (which for a while was an old Asus EEE PC with Linux) and had a TV Media Player on my living room connected to my TV and to the network so I could just use a remote to access the files via SMB and play them on the TV. (This was well before Android TV, and back then the Media Players were dedicated hardware solutions such as the ASUS O!Play)

I've been doing exactly this and for even longer than this guy.

Then again almost 3 decades in the Tech industry (which amongst other things means seeing several comes and goes of "providers") have long taught me to be suspicious of being dependent on 3r party providers, and even more so of having my stuff hostage to their wills (either hosted in their machines or wrapped in encrypted envelopes which I cannot remove).

There is no actual good consumer reason for a seller of digital goods to keep it in their systems or in your own storage but encrypted, without letting the buyer have free access to what they bought.

Back when those things started a lot of people went for the convenience of encrypted Apple music on their iPods, encrypted books on their Kindles and buying videos that they could only stream never get and, inevitably, they got screwed and here we are.

I, for one, didn't got screwed with that stuff.

Funny how you instantly presumed my opinion was from "They" (whomever "they" are).

Way to project how you see politics - in a Tribalist and Unthinking "Follow the Leader" way - onto others.

It's exactly through reasoning logically up from actual Principles that one concludes that the Democrat Party leadership are nothing more than unprincipled slick grifters representing whomever pays them better (which invariably are some very, very rich people), even when many of the common members of Democrat Party aren't at all like that but have either been swindled into going along with it (easy to do when people are tribalists and hence whatever their "leaders" tells them needs not be questioned with a keen skeptical eye) or just disempowered via anti-democratic mechanisms such as "super delegates".

America is as America is now thanks to all the useful idiots, and that's both the ones on the Republican and on the Democrat side.

Yeah, even in this very comments section we have arse-lickers still blaming the plebes for not having supported a DNC Royalty who didn't even tried to listen to or represent them.

These people have spent the last decades unwaveringly supporting the hard right within the Democratic Party, who couldn't give a rat's arse about anybody not in their social circle, and now, to avoid accepting the blame for having supported those who corrupted their party from the inside, are blaming the poor sods on the outside who between two parties entirely dominated by the wealthy elites, never had a real choice.

Doing God's work in excusing the DNC's unwillingness to do what it took to defeat Trump (just like, right now, they're not doing what it takes to stop him).

For the instinctive ass-kisser it's never the Royalty who is to blame, always the plebes.

With an "opposition" that doesn't actually oppose and is ever less representative of the population, Project 2025 was always going to happen, sooner or later, since the trend of the last 2 decades has been ever more of far right populism, propped up by the Democrats' ever more Rightwing policies and ever less trying to represent the broader population (and repeatedly using "we're not them" as their entire electoral strategy).

You know what might've worked? Not having licked the boots of the Democrat Leadership during the last decade or two.

Now, you're getting to enjoy the bed you made for yourself.

He is easily the worst person there is to ask for it.

Company Town Halls are "we listen to you" theatre.

Modern large companies behave towards their employees the same way they behave towards their customers: they use marketing to influence them into doing what's best for the C-suite, the Board and (usually) shareholders.

In Tech specifically this kind of crap has been common since the 90s even in Startups (as part of the "pay them with hope, sense of belonging and pride rather than money" technique), though the big Tech companies are the most extreme in this kind of stuff.

This is NOT at all Corruption and in fact the United States Of American has NO Corruption at all and is the CLEANEST country in the World.

I have noticed that the chances of success increase if one "forgets" the ever so slightly in squares or things like bicycle handlebars.

I get the impression that perfectionists have to purposefully make mistakes to count as humans in these things.

• Brings "5x ceramic plate"
• Receives "Sword Of Total Pwnage" which has been a family heirloom for centuries.

In the big picture I expect collisions and debris in LEO are less of a problem because things at that level tend to naturally deorbit without regular use of propulsion to make up for the effects of atmospheric friction (which is tiny, but still there and adding up over time).

As a side note, if you use Lutris it has install scripts for pretty much all GoG games, which will take care of adding the necessary libraries via winetricks and you can use them for game installation even when not using Lutris' support for direct dowload from GoG and instead installing from a local copy of the GoG offline installer for that game.

It seems to me that no matter how serious, any present day "conservative" community will at the very least be constantly confused with Satire. In fact the more serious the participants are about it, the more likely that is to happen.

Self-satire is a genuine problem of what passes for a Conservative Ideology nowadays.

As somebody from a poor EU country with good weather - Portugal - if Albania is anything like here, it's a great place to live as long as your income is at the level of somewhere else.

The problem is to live in such a place with the level of salary of such a place.

A lot more humane, though, as the flies get upright much more easilly than the cows.

So, only criminals will have them?

Well, his definition of "screw over" is probably when the other side of a negotiation pools resources to be able to negotiate in a balanced way.

In that mindset, workers make Unions to "screw over" big companies.

Because that's essentially what the EU is: a polling of resources of many small and a few mid-sized countries to on Internation Trade matters negotiate as a block and hence in a balanced way with large countries like the US and China.

Given Trump's background of using his money to take advantage of contractors for his companies by using lawsuits with no hope of winning meant only to drain out the resources of others and make them quite, it makes perfectly sense that he would see those others pooling resources to be able to face him as "screwing him over" and in that "logic" the EU being created "screw over" the US.

The US was a white colonialist project that once it became strong enough wrestled independence from the colonialist nations that started it, pretty much like has happenned all throught History.

IMHO, the people it was formed to screw over were the natives of the land the colonialists stole - so he members of the native Indian tribes.

I'm in the EU and I very much I hope he does, beause the response will be spectacular: apparently there is an Act from 2023 that the EU can respond to this by suspending intellectual property rights of US companies, plus from last time Trump was President the EU learned to target counter-Tariffs for maximum political effect (basically hitting Republican states hardest) and that will also work fine in targetting US companies politically affiliated with Trump (bye, bye, Tesla!).

Also it will definitelly finish off any lingering delusions of European politicians that the US is an "ally".

He's doing 5D chess whilst us common mortals can only see 3 dimensions.