The problem is that social media algorithms thrive on engagement, and the fastest way to further that engagement is hate. Spending all day on the internet banging on about various fashionable causes, may make give a temporary endorphin boost, but does it actually change much except social media corps’ profit margins?

OP has posted a reminder to not watch Harry Potter in a small internet forum for internet piracy. Will this affect JKR’s support of anti-trans groups in any discernible way?

If you want to change the world, it’s arguably better to get off the internet, and spend time in your community making real tangible changes. If you spend too much time on the internet, it’s likely you’ll forsake the former. There are only so many hours in the day.

It’s fundamentally not that different to replacing real social interaction, with ersatz social interaction on social media.

e: To be clear, this comment won’t actually change anything either. I am just filling time.

I know people like to hate AI, but it does have its uses.

Rear ports? Why bother?

Simply pop it on their desk and let them plug it in themselves when they’re bored/curious.

Pop it on a usb stick and leave it on their desk. You could google how to make it autorun, but you likely won’t have to bother.

Ubisoft is in serious trouble.

TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if they started including a bitcoin miner in their games and filming customers 24/7 so they can sell the footage.

Run it on a rival colleague’s PC.

Stupid question, but why can’t your friend not just run it in sandboxie with internet locked down?

No noticeable performance drain, can’t cause too much damage.

Or isn’t this enough?

I owned a Citroen with a 1.0TSI engine that was supposedly more efficient than the 1.4TSI in my VW. In reality the VW was and still is far more fuel efficient, even though it’s a significantly more powerful engine. Could be that the Citroen was shaped like a brick though. LOL.

I get why manufacturers did it.Wet belt perishes outside warranty or after the lease contract ends. Customer ends up footing the bill and increased cost over a dry belt. Lower emission under test conditions for regulatory compliance.

This being said, I just replaced the belt on my vw at less than 150k km/ 93k miles and coming up on 10 years. VW recommends it. Some markets they recommend replacing it much sooner. That’s arguably a shorter interval than some wet belts. But it is much cheaper to replace than a wet belt, much much cheaper than a new engine, so a no brainer. (400E/$)

I’ll be glad to move to an electric car. Hopefully be able to avoid some of that nonsense.

Wet belt?

completely unavailable to obtain in the US

vinted/ebay

3G is being phased out everywhere

2G fallback.

specific apps that relate to taxi services and talking with my group

Yeah. That’s a no.

I find it annoying that everything’s an app now, when it could also still be a website.

This is probably not what you want, but I sometimes use a 2017 Nokia 3310, the one with 3G.

There are not really apps on that(IRC only twitter and facebook, and I don’t know if those still work), but you can install/upgrade to the latest version of opera mini, which does offer access to (some) more apps.

To be clear this is on my to do list. In the past I just used it as a dumbphone.

Sorry grandpa. All your friends are dead.

Oh, yeah.

But I mean piracy filesharing. That was already popular on dial-in BBSes in the 80s.

Filesharing pre-dates the web.

Sorry to tell you this, but my father is not a medical doctor.

Almost 50 years ago…

When’s your next prostate check?

C64?

It was also called piracy back then too. It was incredibly common on the Commodore 64 starting in the 80s . They’d often call themselves crackers, because you needed to crack the piracy protection to be able to copy disks.

Those disks and even cassettes would then be shared from person to person or sold in shops or on second hand markets. AFAIK this is also when 1337/leet became popularised, to avoid censorship on BBSes, where file sharing was also possible.

For example, a magazine from 1991:

Note the group is called Elite productions and they call themselves pirates. There’s also mention of crackers, specific events, and I especially enjoy that a piracy/cracking group felt it necessary to add a copyright logo next to the name of their piracy group which was called Elite Productions.

The problem is that when graphics become to realistic, you enter the uncanny valley, which makes things seem off.

IME it’s better when they (slightly) stylise the graphics, which makes the game look less realistic, but you weirdly end up noticing it less.