This would be a very interesting case if this ever gets to court over copyright…

Let’s ask the people who went to jail for using Napster 20 years ago, shall we?

It’s one of the most popular social media apps in Russia that is not banned or blocked. I would bet they already have a backdoor for the Russian police and intelligence agency…

The subscription is for the 25gb cloud storage space… Of course a 64gb USB Stick would be cheaper and doesn’t rely on an online connection.

Ah, similar trick works with some viruses. If you set the keyboard layout or timezone to Russian, the ransomware will not encrypt your files.

I wouldn’t get into crypto, but have you heard about this newfangled thing with the NFTs?

But you can still use the parts on other cars…

The batteries will wear out eventually and lose capacity. Even if you have an unlimited stock of spares, the cell chemistry will eventually break down a few years after they left the factory.

Commercial displays are not tvs. Quite often the refresh rate is terrible and you cannot watch action movies on it, because it was designed to show static billboard ads.

While I agree, I think this solution is some nonsense. I bought a “TV” and paid for all the hardware and software that went into it, but I essentially have to use it as a monitor with my own hardware to escape the enshittification.

• Low rent means no money for maintenance
• the elevators where frequently out of order or vandalized
• instead of a private washing machine you would have a number of them in the basement (maybe 1 for every 5 flats?), and a week plan with timeslots when you can use them. This is nice as long as all machines are working, but the same problem as with elevators applies here.
• it’s not a quiet place, you could always hear people going up and down the stairs. The light switch Relais in the cabinet on each level always made a very loud “clunk” when someone turned on the lights…

Fun fact: instead of cupholders, 1970s cars would proudly advertise the number of ashtrays they had equipped the car with, usually 1 within reach of every seat. This number was equally important as horsepower or price on marketing materials.

Top car will start to loudly beep and light up the dashboard like a christmas tree with SERVICE NOW!!! warnings whenever the windshield wiper fluid is low, seat belt is not fastend or a brake light is out. Has controls for radio and clima hidden 3 levels deep behind a touch screen interface. Comes with an app that will somehow stop working after 5 years when the car is no longer sold, or after you upgrade your phone. Has a subscription that allows you to go faster and use the heated seats you already paid for when you bought it.

Bottom car will run as long it has fuel, dosnt judge you like a fuckin audi would and lists engine oil as “optional” in the manual.

Always has been. Technically the server sees no difference in what a browser does vs what a bot does: Downloading files and submitting requests.

I’m sure the reddit TOS you agreed to during signup says otherwise…

Blocking bots is hard, because with some work they can be made to look like users, down to simulating curved mouse movements from one button to the next if you are really ambitious.

In multiplayer games, having a low ping is more important than refresh rate.

They could both live on musk’s mars colony, the first rockets are set to start as early as 2018!

Nope. You can run similar models locally that are good and fast enough for most tasks.