Why bother with DVDs when you have torrents and russian streaming sites...

I enjoy watching movies without having to wait four hours to download a Blu-ray rip on my 2mb ADSL.

"I feel like watching a movie, NAS" vs "I feel like watching a movie, ETA: 4 hours"

And besides my TV is dumb enough that I'm proud of it. It supports DNLA and works well.

Just plan ahead and download it before you want to watch it

But that just ruins the spontaneous movie watching experience you get with DVDs.

Surely you mean the spontaneity after you have actually bought the DVD.

That, or rewatching a pre-watched film for comfort. Not every movie needs to be new.

I rewatched Firefly on the whim the other week and now Malcom In The Middle because I own them on DVD.

Not available anywhere else digitally, at least with my subscription's.

if you watched it before you already downloaded it...

Because paying for the art I enjoy is the right thing to do, so I do it.

I have donated hundreds to charity purchasing my used DVDs from charity shops.

your hard earned couple dollars made all the difference to hollywood. they absolutely will repay you with even more ads, payment tiers, propaganda and DRM!

This is really great advice not just for this situation but in general really. For the proxies/what goes in front, I recommend cloudflare workers.

Doesn't CF have a service to accomplish this anyways that doesn't involve spinning up your own Worker application?

I don't want to use my phone as a PC. What happens if I lose it???

I can cross the street and get a new FREE SIM with a number from the shop. all i have to do is put some money on it to activate it, like $1 ...

This livestream broke the internet, no joke. youtube was barely loading and a bunch of other sites too. 130M is a conservative number given all the pirate streams.

don't confuse your ISP breaking with every other provider or the rest of the Internet. It was more than fine here.

My internet was fine.

Look at how Google does it for Blogger. There is an OK button and a "Learn more" one. There is no reject. Are you saying they are breaking the law? EU would love nothing more than to levy more fines.

They are breaking the law. But enforcement lies with national agencies (unlike antitrust where the EU commission itself enforces). Most national agencies don’t bother, only the French CNIL had levied penalties - pretty much on every one of the big ad tech companies in the Faamgs, Bytedance and Twitter…

I always assumed they were and are breaking the law.

Yes.

GDPR says on Consent:

> The basic requirements for the effectiveness of a valid legal consent are defined in Article 7 and specified further in recital 32 of the GDPR. Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. In order to obtain freely given consent, it must be given on a voluntary basis. The element “free” implies a real choice by the data subject. Any element of inappropriate pressure or influence which could affect the outcome of that choice renders the consent invalid.

Pretty clear, isn't it?

There have been subsequent rulings stating that not giving a equally styled no/reject option or letting people choose between one yes option and thousand separate no options is already a influence that nullifies consent.

Also specific means you can't just tell them you have to use a cookie for technical reasons and use it for tracking later — they might have given you consent for that cookie for the purpose you told them about, not for the purpose of tracking.

All kinds of actors try to bend the rules here, while the rules are verh clear.

> EU would love nothing more than to levy more fines.

They aren't paying attention then.

The market abuse that has allowed Chrome to become as dominant as it is has been a lot worse than what Microsoft did with IE.

This to me is quite close to o1 or Sonnet. Bonus you can run it locally on entry-level hardware.

Put it on Blogger from Google. Has been around since 1999. There are some huge blogs/websites hosted on Blogger.

They make money with Adsense, and it turn Google does to.

Google has killed a lot of products but in my opinion they will keep this. There are just so many blogs, little and small, some who have posts dating from '99 even, still online.

Is Google going to be around in its current form a hundred years from now?

Google in 2024 feels like IBM in 1974. The brand will surely exist fifty years from now, but possibly much diminished. I wouldn’t count on any specific product surviving the “legacification” of Google.

I (wrongly?!) assumed that Google had shut down Blogger years ago and that this was sarcasm, using Google’s history of killing services to highlight the folly of relying on a commercial service to still be around years or decades later.

Poe’s law at its best.

Claude is the best at coding but the limits are the problem. You only get like a handful of messages.

With free or with paid too?

You can pay for Claude API access (not normal Claude Pro) and wire in something like Cline via your API key, but it gets expensive fast in my experience.

I would invest in an M Macbook just for this reason, that battery life is insane even with wi-fi on, imagine no connectivity, should pass 15 hours.

The latest Lenovo P14s I have running Arch/sway has a crazy long battery life as well. It idles at 3.4W with wifi on. Writing code with an editor and all the fancy LSPS/plugins pushes me to 4W. I can get more than a full days worth of work on a single charge if I'm not doing anything compute heavy.

That said, it's not out of box like a Macbook.

Good to know. I’m looking to transition into a Linux laptop setup and have been looking into power efficient setups.

What processor do you have?

It's a Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 155H. And as far as power is concerned, spending some time fiddling with tlp will get you a good chunk of the way there. Playing around with different DEs will give different results. Sway is my preference, it's my favorite and has the lowest power footprint. Blacklisting drivers, tuning sysctls and hardware helps as well.

I'm almost never CPU constrained, so I tend to have everything idled down as much as possible.

Edit: and just for context, opening firefox and browsing the web right now has me at 9W.

At the time (2017), I was using an intel 2012 MacBook. Battery life was fine. The biggest challenge was not having a useful local search engine. It has prompted me to download lots of models and run them with ollama. I create local knowledge bases. This greatly augments the strategy.