Wasn’t Google Photos super racist a few years back?

Kodi with a debrid service works great for me, the one I use has had maybe 2-3 days worth of downtime in the 3 and a half years that I’ve been using it!

Eh the authoritarian capitalists who love the CCP generally seem to embrace the fact that China is authoritarian - they see it as a good thing!

Got a bunch of Athom bulbs (and smart plugs) along with a custom-built LED strip that’s attatched to the back of my TV!

Kinda hard to control the brightness and colour temperature on traditional lightbulbs!

Can’t control colour temperature and brightness, and it’s a pain in the ass getting traditional bulbs to automatically turn on with your morning alarm!

That said I personally wouldn’t buy proprietary smart lighting - all my lights are running the FOSS WLED firmware, controlled through self-hosted HomeAssistant and HyperHDR.

Ayy kinda like most of the authoritarian state capitalist countries they idolise

Also depends on where the servers are - latency probably won’t be great if you’re on the literal opposite side of the world from the servers that you’re streaming the game from!

How long until Apple adopts RISC-V?

Yeah I reckon we need less authoritarian capitalism, not more of it in slightly different flavours!

I’ve got a few smart home devices (lights, plugs, weed vape, TV backlight) and literally none of it is proprietary and it all works even if my internet connection is down!

Can confirm, accidentally threw my Poco down the concrete staircase (and ~1.5m drop) outside my flat and it somehow didn’t even scratch the screen!

Man HP just doesn’t know how to make hinges anymore - I’ve had the hinge on two different consumer-grade HP laptops crap out within a few months/years over the past decade!

Framework definitely seems the way to go if you want a long-lived laptop - as long as you live in one of the few countries that they sell to!

HP’s consumer side definitely declined rapidly in quality over the last 10-15 years - had an HP that needed repairs after a few months back in '14 whereas I’ve got a Pavilion from '04 or so that’s still going!

Didn’t Apple get hit with a class action lawsuit over their 2011 Macbook Pros frying themselves?

AFAIK that unfortunately requires using Google Messages (or moving overseas)

Because SMS doesn’t support group chats and MMS is expensive garbage (50c/300kb is fucked)

Oh ya I’ll just tell my grandparents to drive 10-12 hours to get to the other side of the island every time they want to talk to me or see my face

Good luck sending photos or holding a video call with the scant 1100 bits provided by an SMS message…