Which button can I push to make all sides of this disappear from existence?

I’m here. Ain’t no billions of people rushing to join us.

Too late for that. We have TikTok now. Everyone needs a new dopamine hit every 3 seconds and god forbid you run out of new things in your feed.

The era of social media IS over. Even if you make a good one.

Like Gmail?

Yup. With shows and movies it’s the other way around. Netflix was already losing a lot of the third party content I liked and then they pulled the whole “have to live in the same house” thing. Instant cancel.

I do have Apple TV+ nowadays, but only because I have the Apple One package that gives you Music, TV+, Arcade and storage space for a bit more than any of the services separately. TV+ is also nearly all originals and there are a lot of good ones. They have much less content, but much better quality to garbage ratio. I’ve watched some shows 3 times over. Not a service I’d likely pay for separately, but the bundle deal is just an excellent value proposition for me.

Everything else I torrent. Indiscriminately. Hollywood blockbuster? Torrent. Estonian movie? If I missed it in the cinemas, torrent.

Figma can go catch ligma for all I care.

I must admit I’ve never reamly benchmarked any voice chat application. One advantage Jitsi does have is the ability to do p2p calls, saving a couple dozen milliseconds of transfer time compared to going through the server. But how fast is the software itself? No clue.

You can integrate Jitsi to your Matrix too. If you have a client that supports it, you get both chat and voice in the same place.

I’ve got that in my group chats in Telegram but since we should all be moving to FOSS and decentralization, have you considered setting up Jitsi? It integrates with Matrix too. That already pretty much gets you most discord functionality that people care about.

I’ve definitely hit my 400GB cap once or twice and regretted switching from unlimited. Most months is 20-60 GB but the next highest option after 400 is 40 and I’d hit that too often. And yes, this is mobile. My desktop runs 24/7 and has a torrent client on, so I can get a terabyte per month on my home network too, though thankfully those are all unlimited in my country.

I was gonna say there’s no typo but the comment has been edited. What was it originally?

It’s mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.

Hell I’m a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I’ve given up.

The house of Saud has a lot of money in renewables already for example. But they make even more money if we buy all their oil first, so that’s what they want us to do.

Yeah, having fabs in the US as well as other countries could pay off yuuugely. If potential fab customers are truly afraid of Intel copying their designs - Intel could enter an agreement with say Qualcomm that it won’t design any ARM CPUs for X years. Surely there’s a market for US made SoCs once you can assemble the logic board of a smartphone in the US, and a smartphone from parts. You’d still import some parts but shift production to the US for what’s possible - but you need to start with the end product and work your way down because otherwise you’re shipping components back to China for final assembly. And the more expensive the components you can produce in the US, the less you’re affected by tariffs.

Floorp is a nice one to use and deserves a mention.

Yeah for a long time there Intel was way ahead of the fabless AMD. Back then people were saying it was a mistake for AMD to split the fab business.

Because these comments or their sentiment are usually in the style of Arrested Development

So is slapping all your major trade partners with tariffs, but look what happened.

I’m not saying it’s a certainty, but it’s now a possibility that must be considered whereas previously it would’ve been unthinkable.

The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated.

Normally, yes. But at this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see the orange oaf ignore it and then try to muscle other countries into still respecting it when American diplomats are on the line.

Hell, I’m hoping that won’t happen. But personally, I’d be a bit skittish about traveling to the US right now as a diplomat. I’d also be very skittish about traveling to the US as a non-diplomat.

… What makes you think the US in its current state gives a single fuck about any convention, much less one named after the capital of another country? They’re exploring ways to circumvent their own constitution so they could send dissidents to CECOT for “terrorism” even if they’re citizens.