I’ve learned one thing in my time on the internet.

If there is a will, there is a way and yo ho fiddle dee dee they sure will find it.

Even before smart watches I always replaced my watch bands with canvas bands off the rip. Breathable, durable, etc.

Wind or Nuclear.

I get that nuclear is a Boogeyman for some but it really is one of the better options for taking a step in the right direction and getting us closer to less oil dependency.

It’s a matter of finding where the line between cost and user satisfaction meet.

Like sure you could limit all videos to 60fps @ 720p or 30fps @ 1080p but most everyone now wants everything 120fps @ 2160p which takes up dozens of gigs per video and eats up bandwidth.

It’s great because nobody can figure out who may be doing it.

There’s a running theory that it’s the same graffiti artist that had been doing anti-corpo stuff during Occupy WallStreet like some kind of ancap banksy but again, they haven’t been caught nor identified.

I think a big part of that is just straight up storage space, more specially a lack thereof. Google won’t release specifics but estimates put the total data stored by YouTube at somewhere near an exabyte (1 million terrabytes). Most of which is made up by video files.

Of course that’s just issue number 1 of many to figure out.

Yea peertube is rough… Mostly in part due to, in my opinion at least, people wanting to make use of YouTube’s ad revenue system even tho most creators I watch making most of their income via donations rather than ad revenue.

I didn’t work 3rd shift (11pm-7am) but I worked 2nd shift (3pm-11pm) Mon-Fri. Found a 24/7 gym which was empty at night when I got off work (bonus), would get home from the gym at around 1230-1 am, would do my meal prep and house work till about 2am then I’d conk out for the night, wake up at around 10 or 11, go grocery shopping and run errands till about 1pm or just hang out and do random stuff. Wasn’t hard to stay healthy. mind you I’m a staunch anti-social and was single at the time which made it infinitely easier because I didn’t have a commitment to anyone besides myself but after getting married and having a kid, physical health wasn’t hard to maintain. It became difficult to manage my martial and mental health.

I guess I should elaborate. I look at more than just what’s on the site. I’ll actually go around and look for 3rd party reviews and such. It’s not fool proof but I’ve had a much better buying experience since I’ve started doing that.

I look at reviews more than I look at advertising. On top of that I look at negative reviews. Most negative reviews usually have pros and cons listed or will actually go into depth about the product and it’s shortcomings unlike most positive reviews that just say “it’s great!”

Thankfully I can just filter their email address straight into the garbage bin but it’s still ridiculous.

With the advent of the internet and a bit of sailing the high seas it wasn’t hard to get a hold of em anyway.

Some person(s) in my city used to go around slapping stickers over Trump bumper stickers that said “drink beer, support the queer!”. As of recently several Teslas have had “Built by fascism” slapped on them… Wonder if it’s the same person(s).

It’s understandable in the end. I do feel the same way sometimes about our equipment we have to throw out even if I do so begrudgingly

I can agree with both points but I understand Viking’s points too.

I work with high pressure hydraulic systems and our gauges that we use for testing and operational checks have to be calibrated to within a very small margin per the manufacturer, if it’s unable to be calibrated to within that margin or if it’s been recalibrated X amount of times we have to toss it and replace it (they’re expensive btw…). To the lay man, a difference of 50psi might seem inconsequential and a stupid reason to throw it out but for someone like me who is standing next to something that’s already pressurized to its “proof pressure” which is usually multiple times higher than it’s operating pressure, that 50psi is the difference between me going home that evening or me getting impaled by an accumulator that blows apart and pins me to the wall.

For an example more akin to what Viking is talking about, see the Therac-25 radiotherapy machine, where improper use, training and maintenance led to several otherwise preventable deaths.

Kudzu already beat you to it.

The same guy who has toddler level temper tantrums when people call him out for being a man child.

Yea I can’t logically understand how an influencer even gets their content seen on Meta’s platforms given how it’s algorithm just pukes random shit at you 24/7 with no rhyme or reason.

Iirc Meta, X and some other platform I can’t think of did a similar thing with popular streamers and YouTubers trying to get them to post to their platforms. Most of them told Meta and X to screw off.