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  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Yes exactly. They provide a service, you pay for it by watching ads and facilitating personalised advertising.

    In comparison, some of the books I’ve bought have cost more per book than a month of YouTube premium, so the value isn’t THAT bad on YouTube.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • You also need to buy books, or borrow them from someone else who did. YouTube videos are free usually.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Yes, large scale video hosting is notoriously free to provide.

    YouTube the service absolutely has a cost to it. It’s been born by the owners at first and then people who watch ads. It got profitable when they started showing more ads. Premium is a way to get out of watching ads. You and I use adblockers and it’s fine but if a significant share of people did, the cost for paying users would have to keep increasing.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Lol you’re the one plugging a super inconvenient solution as if it should be the default, I just took it farther to ridicule yours. It’s great that you can’t stand criticism of your questionable ideas and have to block others. Means your ideas aren’t too be taken seriously.

    Have you considered that the average TV user sits down after a hard day and doesn’t want to troubleshoot a wireless mouse, nor boot a computer separately from turning on the TV? The world out there is rough, your TV is supposed to be the one thing that just works and numbs it down for you so you can pretend things are fine.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Yeah fuck using a keyboard and mouse at 5 meters away. You really should roll a custom Linux box with a remote control setup and Plasma Bigscreen. Custom YouTube client too, for better visibility

  • Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

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  • You went from a 120 Hz display to 60 Hz, literally half the speed. Could’ve gone 13 Pro or Pro Max and had a better experience. Yeah, it sucks. Apple really gimps their non-pro models with displays. The Plus is just a base iPhone but bigger.

  • Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

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  • There were different types of soda available in the Soviet Union, just not as many as in the west. Want something truly weird? Try Tarkhuna. The bright green color is natural.

  • Infectious Diseases Expert Sounds Alarm On Disney Vacations Amid Florida Vaccine Move

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  • Ah that makes sense. Yeah I won’t ever get the annual pass. Wanted to move to the US when it was good for software engineers, but now it seems good for nobody except millionaires. Hope you’re doing ok there, I’m gonna stay in my cozy corner of the world until Putin decides to invade

  • Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

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  • No 2FA for transfers at your bank?

  • Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

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  • RATs existed for a long time but you needed to manually hit record I think? I’m assuming this is just some extra automation.

  • If Trump loses his tariff lawsuit, America may have to refund businesses more than $200 billion

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  • Well, consumers paid first and foremost, but businesses lost revenue because consumers kinda stop buying shit when it doubles in price - other than essentials, of course. It's also easier to pay a bunch of businesses than to pay 300 million Americans. Oh wait, they've already done the latter, so how about do that again and people can spend the money to buy more shit from said businesses and everyone wins?

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever.

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  • since Google would face backlash if any attacker could publish Android apps anonymously.

    This is about installing APKs, not apps downloaded from the Play Store. Which, by the way, also have no quality control. Publish a YouTube downloader and it gets taken down in 3 seconds. Make an app to steal people's data, perhaps even steal their money? Literally not an issue.

    Google doesn't want you to be able to install a secure open source YouTube client that can ignore ads, or modified apps that can bypass ads they serve that 3rd party app developers put in. They do not give a fuck about attackers getting all your shit. They also don't want you using NextCloud if you could be using Google Drive - so rest assured, Nextcloud fuckery will now continue on APKs too, not just the Play Store verifications.

    In all of this, Apple is in some ways better than what Google wants to do - only because Apple makes money off all devices that run iOS. So they don't really care if you use something like NextCloud instead of iCloud - they already made money off you, anything else is a bonus. Of course they do still want to keep you paying for shit and they don't want to be sued by Google for allowing ad-free youtube apps, so they're only marginally better.

  • Hundreds arrested in immigration raid at Hyundai plant site in Georgia

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  • Battery technology is ridiculously good at this point compared to 20 years ago or even 10 years ago tbh. The entire time they were fidgeting with their hybrids, they could've been using that time to developer newer and better battery technologies too. There are several new non-Japanese EVs out there whose range doesn't make me anxious, that I would consider for my next daily driver if I wasn't broke as fuck since 2024 because of... well, long story, let's skip that lol. Or I could get a super depreciated 4 year old uber expensive EV with 4 years left on the battery warranty for fairly little money. Either way, if I was looking at new or lightly vehicles, EVs are now actually competitive.

    They can also produce electricity in Japan. Maybe not batteries, but then getting the whole supply chain for the cars from within Japan is unrealistic anyway. They make their own steel, but the iron ore and coal are imported. Plus of course recycled steel is used too, but that comes from all over the world.

    What's more, Tesla realized you need to start with high-margin luxury cars (Model S - let's ignore for now the original Roadster which was more of a tech demo made by awesome people pre-Musk), Mercedes realized you need to start with big expensive cars (EQC crossover SUV first, then EQS luxury sedan and then a bunch of smaller ones), Audi realized you need to start with big expensive cars (E-Tron crossover SUV, E-Tron sports/GT car, then also Porsche Taycan within the same corporation)... But Lexus isn't making a big practical electric SUV, nor an electric luxury car. The RZ is okay-sized, but it's a hatchback on stilts, front wheel drive in the lower spec models... Which are already pretty expensive. And because of the rear slope, the trunk loses half its space. Where's the electric LS luxury sedan? Electric GX equivalent for something with a good amount of actual cargo space? The LS in particular would do good as electric because it costs enough that they can afford to put in some adaptive air suspension so you wouldn't feel the weight as much. Plus a moderately sporty luxury sedan with a low center of gravity would be a nice driving experience to get journalists to start hyping up their EVs.

    Since batteries are expensive for now, it's best to start electrifying the expensive part of your fleet. It's easier to hide the cost into those. I don't want a hatchback on stilts with front wheel drive and little cargo space for 60 thousand euros before options. If I add just 12k more, I get into a BMW i4 which I'm not fond of the styling of, but at least it doesn't try to pretend it's an SUV that it really isn't. Or the Volvo ES90, which is bigger than the i4.

    Now where I do somewhat agree there's a shortcoming in EV tech though: Battery cost. They're still very expensive to replace, and there's no guarantee they'll last 15 to 20 years like most ICE vehicles do. There needs to be EU legislation for repairability since nobody else is going to do it in the current political climate. I'm not going to repair one myself because I don't like playing with anything over 12 volts, but a qualified independent shop should be able to rebalance the cells of a battery, and replace individual cells ideally.

  • Hundreds arrested in immigration raid at Hyundai plant site in Georgia

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  • It's... complicated.

    They still manufacture in the US, but I think most of the engineering work is no longer done by Mopar. The newer Jeeps are enlarged Fiat hatchbacks (because I will not call the Stelvio an SUV, it's a hatch on stilts, get a damn Giulia if you're looking at Alfas) that you can get with either the bigger, but old Chrysler Pentastar or the ancient Hemi... Or the tiny FCA four pot.

    To be fair, the WK generation Grand Cherokee already had a lot of Mercedes engineering, but other than the NAG1 and the OM642, your engine and transmission options were still Mopar engineered. The switchgear in the cabin was all Mopar in the WK. WK2 took that platform and slowly added Fiat touches (some of them good, like the upgrade to the 8HP transmission), but WL seems to be all Fiat.

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  • Although, I am a bit disappointed that Toyota is not embracing electric.

    The reason they're not, is the same reason they're so reliable. The Japanese auto manufacturers, with some exceptions, are super conservative. They keep making what's worked for them before, just with incremental changes. The Germans will, for a similar amount of money, give you better suspension in terms of comfort AND sport, more performance, better fuel economy. The Japanese will make a car that you can neglect and it keeps on truckin'. It's true in basically every market segment. It's doubly true in Europe because here we get more German diesels, but the Japanese barely make any, and the ones they do make, suck. All of Estonia drives diesels pretty much, but everyone who knows anything about Subarus would rather pay extra in fuel consumption than get their diesel... Because it splits crankshafts.

  • New York Post accidentally campaigns for Zohran

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  • Privileged lefty radicals, huh? I thought it was poor people being lefties because they want handouts. Choose one boogeyman lol

  • New York Post accidentally campaigns for Zohran

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  • End result: Actually good politician loses to a demagogue on the higher election, loses prior post

    Theory is nice and all, but reality is that humans suck.

  • New York Post accidentally campaigns for Zohran

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  • I’m not really a fan, but look at “Mayor” Pete Buttigeg. One of the biggest attacks against him when he ran was “being president is not the same as being a mayor” (meanwhile we’ll elect CEOs like their experience means anything, but that’s a whole other problem).

    Y'all also elect representatives and senators as presidents, but that's the legislative branch so that actually has less in common with presidency than mayors or CEOs, both of which are more executive branch roles

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  • Hey let me think I'm young for at least a few more years!

    I do think mid 30s is a great age for getting into politics though. They still have decades left to live with the consequences of their decisions, but they also have a bit more experience with how the world works than idealistic 18 year olds.

    Ideally they should also exit politics in less than a century, but I guess we'll see how that plays out.

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    Anyone got experience with Ducky keyboards?