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I don’t see anything describing any kind of cessation of activities. Can you share what you saw?

When I was in college, one of my instructors used these “clickers” that cost students $40 per semester to rent. They used radio to allow submitting realtime quiz answers during class.

iClicker.

F#$* those things.

Faculty at the two higher eds I worked as staff at hated the cost of books and student materials too, and tried their best to keep them down. Most of them. Publishers like Pearson and Cengage started doing things like discounting teacher’s editions and/or including curriculum (slide decks, all level of evaluatons and more) in exchange for becoming the learning portal and getting their hands on that sweet, sweet PII and marketable data, not to mention the yearly rolling editions of their student texts with single-use portal key codes.

This free market correction sure is taking its time…

Makes sense. I think it was 720p media

IIRC it was 720p content. VLC was how I was playing the files until I upgraded from 19.x to 20.x

AV1 works fine since Kodi 20.x on my Shield 2015.

Kitboga on YouTube

Kitboga posts on YT, but he’s based on Twitch, where he goes live almost daily.

No warranty covers the product with ITs serial number most of the time.

Not sure what you mean.

WD RMA seems to require proof of purchase and serial number.

Perhaps going outside of these “normal” channels for RMA might get you around these requirements, but it seems unlikely they’d accept RMA for any drive without proof of purchase. Maybe in some cases, but in suspect those would be the exception, not the rule.

That said, who is to say how long a drive sat on a stock shelf before initial sale? An unregistered drive could be secondhand, or just wasn’t sold until recently.

I simply meant that I wouldn’t assume a used drive includes a manufacturer warranty. I’d work with the reseller to replace the drive, not the manufacturer.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but manufacturer warranties are not transferrable, so when you bought it secondhand, the warranty didn’t convey to you.

My experience with WD and Seagate has been that they request proof of purchase, which, for me, was my original invoice.

Happy to help

Maybe because I only bother with 1080 for the past year, but I used to regularly watch my 30GB 4k 10-bit files with no trouble, even streamed from my NAS.

Show their age how? My 2015 pro is still awesome on GF Experience v8.x with GFN, Kodi and SmartTube. Installed an SSD a few years back and breathed new life into it.

The KIA app has three trackers in it. (Can’t scan the latest version, however) Not exactly a lot by contemporary standards, but more than many. Two of my banking apps have 7. One weather app has 10. The apps I respect have none or only a single tracker, and only for crashlytics, and still optional.

Bab’s house?

This comment seems to be the first reply. I don’t get a “just for argument sake” or a combative vibe from it, nor does it mention mythology or religion. A later comment does call the source for anecdotal (and provably false) information “idiots,” which is unnecessary and likely grounds for mod action or warning.

I don’t really read anything wrong with the mod saying to keep it clean, though the thinly-veiled threat of, “I’m a mod here and I’m not afraid to ban you,” is poorly worded at best.

I completely agree with you about politeness. At the end of the day, I think that, judging methods alone, OP was out of line with his comments about the mods friends, but correct to point out bunk facts.

If I was OP, I’d probably edit my comments to remove the name-calling, but as a Lemmy user, I want these discussions to take place to provide fact-checking for hearsay and debunked science. Politely, whenever possible.

https://walledculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Walled-Culture-the-Book.epub

Free book about copyright and IP stealing our culture with great citations and examples.

They pay wall hardware encoding, and possibly other features, like high resolution formats.

I recently adopted ente, and while the devs are active and enthusiastic, feature parity with gphotos is a long way off. IMO, the sub price should be half what it is.

The desktop app (the only practical/supported way to import your Google Takeout) has lots of little bugs and problems, not least of which is 100% CPU load for the the first few weeks you have it installed. Thats because (even after initial encryption and upload is complete) the machine learning and indexing (even the basic, opted out version) hobbles your system with aggressive CPU scheduling.

I’m going to stick it out for a second month, but I’m not without regrets. For me, I was just done feeding Google AI with my photos and wanted privacy first.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/amazon-jacks-up-price-of-ad-free-prime-video-by-2-99-starting-in-2024/

News broke on this a few months ago, and I jumped ship. Their failed music app is another reason I ditched their ecosystem. Kept crashing; music would pause mid-song; couldn’t play downloaded music offline without a data connection.

Video service had such poor title coverage and nothing compelling for the price. As many others have said, the value proposition didn’t work. Enshittification is in full swing. Sail the high seas.

I’m pleased with activityPub beginning to make “protocols not platforms” a reality.