I’m not sure if that is a sustainable model for the whole society. Pirating as a solution for everything feels like giving up to me. Also I can’t pirate my vacuum cleaner.
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What you say is true and I can understand it is frustrating. But I really don’t know how to convince people. Convenience is king and you need to have strong political opinions to abstain. I am a nerd, but still I often need double the time to find the “alternative” way of owning things.
I recently wanted to get the Harry Potter audio books for listening on my phone. I basically had two “official” options:
- Buying all E-books as mp3 download for 235€
- Amazon Audible for 10€ per Month
You can clearly see that in reality, the industry gives you only one option - audible. For 235€ you can have 2 years of e-book subscriptions.
Maybe you would say “hey, 235€ may seem expensive but in exchange you will get to own the stuff you pay for!”. The thing is: you can get the whole audiobook collection on mp3-CD for just 70€ on Amazon?
In the end I bough an external CD-ROM drive and bought the mp3-CD box used for 40€.
It’s not about that stupid Audiobook or whether the price is justified. The point I want to make is that the industry makes is so hard for individuals to own things, that I almost see this as a lost battle. The way I chose, took almost 2 weeks, days of research, a frustrated lemmy post, two online orders and 2 hours time to copy the mp3s.
And the thing is, it’s the same for everything else - you want to buy a vacuum cleaner? Oh better look if it comes with special cleaner bags for 30€ per bag. Let’s not talk about printers.
Every little item needs so much research, only for the aspects of planned obsolescence and true ownership. We do not even talk about social or environmental aspects…
How the fuck should I expect others to spend so much time on energy on consumption things? Honestly, sometimes I am a bit envious of the people that just do not care. But only sometimes.
Sorry, that somehow developed into a rant
34·1 year agoMaking others aware they consume heavily biased media.
Comparing Canada and Turkey regarding freedom of press is already pretty steep and I would argue with you but as someone sharing Russia Today you disqualify yourself
The Anadolu Agency (AA) is a state-run Turkish news agency mainly controlled by AKP, the governing party of Erdogan in Turkey.
aljazeera.com - Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: Qatar
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: LIMITED FREEDOM
Media Type: TV Station
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
102·1 year agoHopefully in the future repairable and used can go hand in hand! Those are not mutually exclusive attributes.
That’s true. I use LineageOS to get at least OS updates, but firmware is definitely problematic. I just wished mobile hardware would be more generic like in Desktop PCs, that would solve a lot of problems.
It’s a great thing, and I hope the industry (with motivation by EU) will follow a trend towards repairability and sustainability. However I think the most sustainable way is buying used devices.
That’s cool, but which distro would you recommend?
You’d think Americans would be more sympathetic for
peoplean islamistic terror organisation fighting for liberty…FTFY
No, but there are.many other articles covering the topic if you search for it, e.g.
Sorry but who the fuck attends the “Bored Ape Conference”?
Lol this article is a joke
21·2 years agoI’m on fiefox with ublock and didn’t notice any change, Germany…
In my 15 years living for myself I developed a pretty solid cooking skill, nothing too fancy but enough to supply myself with healthy, diverse food. However I never baked a bread and hate baking in general - to me it’s a whole different story than cooking. This might be a regional thing, as in Germany we have great bread everywhere available so bread baking is more of a hobby thing.
I’d suggest to learn how to cook the basic things first. Learn how to cook essential things like eggs, pasta, rice, potatoes etc. Doesn’t sound hard, but for people who never tried before it’s a barrier. Then learn how to cut and prepare veggies, how to cook them, how to fry them. Then try out standard sauces, tomato sauce etc. Aand learn how to use salt and pepper (which is enough for the start). When you cooked your first pasta with tomato sauce just try yourself out and extend your repertoire with all the other standard things.Of course that’s the view of western kitchen.
True, that works.
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I didn’t know either, but it seems to be an often picked ‘random’ number by people. Here is an article about it, I didn’t read it though.