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If there is two different program with same functionality where one of them is free to use it must be piracy? If sideloading on iPhone was a thing I might actually buy one next time. But if I change today I would loose a lot of functionality on my headset, I would be forced to start using the remote controller to my TV and stop flying my drones. This are just a few quick things I know of right now. I also _think_ there is some problem with remote connect to wifi storage to directly/live save drone footage to drive. This might have been fixed since last time I checked. So yes there is a lot of examples where normal users would benefit from sideloading without being pirates.

Pleas just stay away from endorsing any VPN! It's a privacy product and there is no way you can guarantee with 100% certainty that the company in question not keeping logs, etc etc. If it was a HDMI cable, shoes, a clock, ..... Well demand new product or refund. With a VPN it can actually mean prison or even worse for the ones that trust your recommendation.

Not much, they avoid taxes and hardly any employees. Most companied hat little or no interaction with Facebook anymore. LinkedIIn have been growing a lot lately, everyone have moved there, even for private stuff you use to do on FaceBook.

First of all a lot of ISP have that service for free, at least where I live. Secondly there is a lot of firewalls with that auto-update block lists so it's not hard to use. Is skipping ads morally wrong? Perhaps, that is up the individual user. But it's not illegal! Not only have courts said so but ISP would not implement free services that was illegal. EU are actually looking at the sites that tries to bypass adblockers, this might actually be illegal to read what software I have installed on my computer without my consent.

Even worse is that Linus kind of hypocrite. When he speaks about the media he is active in, video, it's piracy but once it's ads on a website he more or less advocate the use of blockers. For me this cuts both ways, you can't single out one media over another like that.

Question is when will we see LTT video making custom cooling for this laptop?

So a bug?

NFT will surly die out in a few years, at least in EU. NFT are now (since November 2021) included in MiCA (Market in Crypto-Assets), new law that EU are adopting in 2023.

I'm surprised not both was against it more. I'm also surprised that the Steam and Sony collaboration was not brought up.

And one of the REALLY good advantages to run it on Linus is that you can connect multiple peripherals so you can actually use the same computer.

Why did you not do this on Linux? Not only have you been able to do this for several years the installation are much easier.

Same thing happens with new versions of Windows. First most really hate the new features but once they get use to them they love them. Same thing here but in a larger scale. I'm actually somewhat disappointed on Linus due to this, he should be able to look to the next step. On the other hand might Linus not be a great candidate for this kind of test due to his heave dispossession vs Windows.

Öppna skolplattformen is NOT Open Source and that was/is part of the legal problems. The company behind Öppna Skolplattformen, Not Free Beer AB (Yes that is the actual name) claim they own the source code and since its reversed engendered there is question if they own the right and therefore can sell the app. Anyhow the issue are much more complex then the original article claims.

Users within EU have, according to Article 20 GDPR the right to data: You can demand any organisation or company to reveal all data they have collected about you. Few coworkers contacted FaceBook and their their data en was actually fun to read. Also remember you have the right to be forgotten so you can have all the data deleted. You can read more here: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

Steam got it's store 2005 two years after it started. Steam had a lot of problems with crashing and demeaning internet access even for single player games at a time less then 20% of US had access to broadband internet. It was simply a glorified RDM in the beginning, really disliked one at that. In 2008 Steam only had 183 new releases, that is 5 years after it opened. Today Steam are mostly a good user experience but do not forget they had a really hard time in the beginning. Some of the problem are quite similar to what EGS have now, not enough game developers on the platform.

Something a lot of posters here are forgetting is that there is two sides to a store. There is a developer side and a consumer side. From a developers perspective are EGS so much better then any alternative, specially if you are using Unreal engine. Even as a small time developer you get a lot of help not only in the implementation of EGS in your game but even things like marketing and general development help. Compared to Steam that only throw a API in your face and till you to solve it your self. Previous there have been a good Steam developer community to ask but that is now failing and Steam offers no help at all. So I'm thinking that Epic are doing a smart thing here. First they get the developers to engage/invest time into their plattform and when the back end are built up they will start om improving the consumer side of the shop. Because this is an chicken and egg problem, without developers they can get customers. Was not long ago Epic said that this segment/genre was not large enough at the moment. Perhaps in a few years things will change.

That is IF you still have the gold and your life when things calm down. I have several stories from Denmark during WW2 where rich families tried to buy food from farmers with their jewellery without success. Farmers was simply not interested, they had no use for it. Then rumor about the gold spread and German troops come and looted your home. So in the end you where without your gold and/or dead. My grandfather told a lot of stories about things like that. He was farmhand in Denmark during WW2 and his only regret in life was that he did't become a blacksmith because they was the ones that always had a good meal in the table.

Actually no! Precious metals will also be more or less useless if a societal collapse. Thinks like cows, chickens (egg) is what you will trade with, or you trade labour for food. Just look how things where traded in worst parts of Europe during WW2, no matter if you had a ton of gold you could not buy food because. Some what comical but still valid point in this video:

I haven't touch cash in at least 7 if not 10 years. And even back then it was quite rare to have cash, some smaller bills and coins in the wallet to give to my children so they could buy glass in the summer, that's about it. Talked to my son, 21 years old, and he remember cash but have no recollection ever handling cash himself. But you are 100% correct that in case of war its going to be back to the old days to trade gold/silver/hens/cows but at that point it will not matter if you traded in cash or digital before the war its all going to worthless anyway.

Then it would be Eoro-Homo for Eueopean homogeneous. And no its not a service to replace a private one. There is simply no ONE payment solution in Europe at the moment and this is an attempt to solve that. Remember that EU is 27 countries where services and products are suppose to be traded freely. Currently this is not happening due to bank and credit companies (Visa, EuroCard/MasterCard, etc) additional frees simply to trade over national borders (Specially internet transactions are expensive). Also noteworthy is that only 19 countries have Euro as currency, other 8 have their own currency. So this digital currency are also suppose to make life easier for those 8 countries and perhaps convince/ make it easier for some of them to join Euro. When mailing a Swedish EU commissioner with some questions about this I got quite surprising answer. Its the first step to cash-less Europe. When Europe will become cash-less there must still be someway to easy transfer money between two people.

There is a lot of places here in Sweden that do accept cash. Even places like flea markets and trutstands on the town square don't take cash. But even some shops, number of places that accepts cash are decreasing fast! It's simply to expensive for buissnis owners handle cash, by removing cash you also remove risk of counterfeit, robbery/theft (employees included), etc etc. Even sales via Blocket (Similar to craigslist) are Swish more or less a requirement. Swish is simple, you get a phone number from the seller/shopkeeper that you enter in the app and then you just enter how much you are going to pay, few security steps later money are removed from your bank account and few seconds after that the receiver get a message that you have paid. No cash needed. I'm born in Denmark and still have family there and I know some banks have similar system there but not as commonly used.

Actually; physical currency are extremely expensive for the government. Digital one would be much cheaper.

Yes, we in Sweden have Swish and at least Denmark and Germany have similar systems. BUT they only work in the specific country. Digital Euro are not designed to compete with any other currency simply make a homogen system for whole Europe. A system that you can use online, in physical stores and between two persons (As you can do with swish). If anything the Digital Euro will compete with pay services like Samsung and Apple have.

It's still gold mate! All they need to do is to melt it down and they get the money money back.

Noo they are going for lightweight next time. Helium, it also helps cool down your hands.