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Sowhatever ,

If you have pets bigger than a hamster, 70k in your lifetime seems reasonable, even low. That around 1k per year.

And a different used car every 6 years is borderline frugal. My dream would be a new car every 3 years.

I don’t see the data to be so bad. Even the house financing is realistic (heavily dependent on location, of course).

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Mostly, yes, except addresses. Public companies publish that data.

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Cars devaluate around 50% every 3 years, so if you bought a 3 year old car instead of new, you could swap it every 7 years for the same cost. And if it holds some residual value, even more often than that…

Some manufacturers even offer warranties on 3 year old leasing returns.

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Going through SEC filings is not on my hobby list.

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“There’s nothing more intoxicating than the clear absence of a penis.”

TIL in 1893, the US Supreme Court held 9–0 that the tomato should be classified as a vegetable rather than a fruit in Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304, for purposes (en.wikipedia.org)

of tariffs, imports and customs. Justice Horace Gray delivered the opinion of the Court in holding that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable", instead of the technical botanical meaning....

Sowhatever ,

Charisma is convincing you to eat the fruit salad anyway.

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Well, now we can feel at home, it’s just like reddit!

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Not even close to the experience.

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Or maybe they are sharing the family plan with 2 other people and rounding up. Or they have a different plan. Or they live in a country with different prices and converting to usd. Or a handful of other reasons that doesn’t involve conspiracy theories.

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What about my TV, where I watch most of my content? What about inter-device sync? What about paying the creators for their work?

I could also shoplift in my local supermarket, but I’m into “that sort of thing” (paying for people’s work).

Sowhatever ,

How do I install it on my TV? How do I sync? Do I install on every device I use? What if I don’t have admin rights? What if it’s out of date and the ads play anyway?

For less than a Starbucks coffee I have a month of premium, and I don’t have to play cat and mouse.

Sowhatever ,

A Starbucks coffee is around 5 euros.

I don’t want to look into anything, much less if it’s less seamless, I’m satisfied with the default YouTube app on my TV.

You need admin rights to install any software.

Sowhatever ,

It’s more than triple for a family plan, but you share it with people and you land well under 5 euros per person.

Please tell me how to install chrome or Firefox on a corporate laptop without admin rights, I’ll wait.

Sowhatever ,

Ah yes, the thinking.

If you watch low effort content you will get low effort content. I watch amazing content that is well worth the few bucks a month. Late night shows, stand up comedy, documentaries, news analysis, tech reviews, car reviews, programming news and tutorials, chess commentary and courses, architecture and interior design tours, sport summaries, popular science…

BTW, Walmart is a huge company, I assume you also don’t pay there? Apparently robbing corporations and farmers it also would be fine, because “the products are so low quality nowadays” …

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Not familiar with Group Policies, I see?

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Or TVs. Or people who want to sync between devices. Or download for offline. Or compensate creators. Or not bother installing 50 scripts and updating them 3 times a day. Or just do the right thing. You know, 99.99% of people.

Sowhatever ,

“appeal to the majority doesn’t help your case”

  • guy who used appeal to the majority first
Sowhatever ,

Lidl is also a big Corp.

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Ditto

Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

Sowhatever ,

It can. But the average impact is still positive.

Sowhatever ,

Why would creators leave? They only earn money from users that watch ads or use premium. Ad blocker users leaving doesn’t affect them.

And if you “just leave”, guess what? You just saved them a few bucks in bandwidth. It’s a win-win for them.

It’s YouTube, they don’t need “exposure”. They are out to make a profit.

Sowhatever ,

In what world Craigslist is honest and Alphabet is circling the drain? They make billions of profit per quarter and they have majority control of the biggest two platforms worldwide (mobile and web). We are not in the wild west years of the early web. It will be decades before Meta or Alphabet collapse, in favor of TikTok or a similar, or even worse, competitor. Mastodon and lemmy are an exception and a niche, not a rule.

Wishing something very hard doesn’t make it true.

Sowhatever ,

The only one I know of is Nebula, and I only know of it because of ads. Ironically, ads on YouTube.

Sowhatever ,

Care to elaborate about these ZFS features?

Sowhatever ,

Very interesting, thanks for the message. I might use it in my next Nas, but my workstation is staying on regular lvm, too much hassle to change probably…

Sowhatever ,

He can do “science”!

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Being a mildly successful phone manufacturer?

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Tja.

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When German and Finnish merge…

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A northern oida.

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Huge expense? Not one life lost, all infrastructure intact and got rid of mostly 80’s military hardware while getting budget for new stuff and a whole lot of free field testing and marketing for export.

We are not sending gold bars or euro bills, we’re paying local companies to produce ammo or sending surplus hardware “for the value of $$$” that would otherwise sit in a hangar somewhere.

This is the cheapest war “Europe” has ever fought, can’t say the same about Ukraine or Russia.

Sowhatever ,

Was it the US? I though it was zelensky…

Sowhatever ,

I don’t think the majority in Germany care about nord stream, even if it was intact, we stopped importing gas from Russia more than a year ago and no one plans to resume it anytime soon. It’s like slashing the tires on a car you sold for scrap last week.

Sowhatever ,

Aka Russia has a GDP comparable to Italy

Sowhatever ,

ICQ, peasant!

Sowhatever ,

There is a ton of quality content, I watch 3 hours a day and can’t make a dent on my “watch later” queue.

News, popular science, hobbies, humor, tech…

Sowhatever ,

Every time Netflix rises prices it makes it to the news (let alone all the drama on twitter/reddit/etc), I don’t know what frog boiling you’re talking about.

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And who will pay for those?

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That’s what Youtube is trying. Either pay or at least stop using it, so you don’t cost them money.

Sowhatever ,

If you watch the news and one movie you also reach 3 hours.

I watch 30 min in the morning while getting ready (usually late night shows from the previous day - mostly listening), 30 minutes to an hour during lunch (LTT, MKBHD, other tech channels or maybe a car review) and a longer session in the evening when the kids are in bed (documentaries or chess tutorials, or programming content, or something longer/more in depth where I can dedicate my full attention).

I don’t find it really unhealthy, works for me.

Sowhatever ,

I pay for Youtube, but I’m clearly in the minority. Look at all the pitchforks in this thread not willing to pay one cent or watch one ad but demanding the content…

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I appreciate that, but I don’t think the vast majority support alternatives. It’s just “I want it free and I want it now”.

Also, if you don’t support Google you most probably don’t support the creators, very few of them have patreon or similar and just rely on ad revenue/sponsors.

I am not bothered by Google at all, at least in the EU you have pretty good control about the data they collect and I feel it’s used well. I get pretty good recommendations on YouTube and the ads I get on other sites are at least somewhat relevant.

I see the chances of a competitor replacing it and being more privacy-friendly close to none. Maybe TikTok will replace YouTube over as GenZ takes over, and I see that as a solid negative.

Sowhatever ,

Have you seen him testify? In front of a judge it’s “I can’t recall” time.

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I love KDE’s “extract here, autodetect folder” feature for compressed files

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Look, we didn’t read past the title on reddit, we’re not gonna start now.

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  1. Not a 2020 Benz
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If the status is “I can’t afford a BMW” then yes, it’s a status symbol.

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