I gotta be honest, when I look at the problem pragmatically, it’ll be a lot easier to pay $20 a year than to switch to jellyfin and get all my users to figure out how to install clients and make it work for them.

I’m already at the point in my life where my primary concern is making things work smoothly, and if I need to throw money at something to make it work smoothly, the choice is a no brainer. (At least for some values of “money”)

Does anyone know what other nations fall into this “sensitive” classification?

Edit: I did some googling myself and here’s the list below. (The short version is: Russia and their allies, China and their allies, and broadly the middle east. Weirdly, also Taiwan)

• Algeria
  

• Armenia
  

• Azerbajan
  

• Belarus
  

• China (PRC)
  

• Cuba
  

• Georgia
  

• Hong Kong
  

• India
  

• Iran
  

• Iraq
  

• Israel
  

• Kazakhstan
  

• Korea (North)
  

• Kyrgyzstan
  

• Libya
  

• Macau
  

• Moldova
  

• Pakistan
  

• Russia
  

• Sudan
  

• Syria
  

• Taiwan
  

• Tajikistan
  

• Turkmenistan
  

• Ukraine
  

• Uzbekistan
  

I realize that’s a long list, I don’t know, should I put that in a or code block or spoiler tag?

I’m going to develop a new AI designed to remove watermarks from AI generated content. I’m still looking for investors if you’re interested! You could get in on the ground floor!

You could use it as the logic board for a micro drone, something the size of a dime perhaps. Or other applications where weight or space are extremely limited. Another example might be a medical implant of some sort, this is small enough that it could be a part of a device that is meant to be placed inside an artery, or an eyeball, or an ear canal.

To be fair, it is really hot…

Thanks, heh, I just came back to look at what I’d written again, as it was 6am when I posted that, and sometimes I say some stupid shit when I’m still sleepy. Nice to know that I wasn’t spouting nonsense.

That sounds like a you problem.

“Our business is so bad and barely viable that it can only survive if you allow us to be overtly unethical”, great pitch guys.

I mean that’s like arguing “our economy is based on slave plantations! If you abolish the practice, you’ll destroy our nation!”

Probably throw planes at you.

I mean, that’s always been the case. That’s literally spaceX’s primary job, putting things in space for NASA. It’s the same for every launch provider in the US.

Uh, basically no.

NASA has experiments to run, spaceX has no idea what science NASA is interested in doing. So having SpaceX make the payload doesn’t really make a lot of sense.

Yeah, I really could not understand the motivation behind that. Why throw away such a valuable brand? I mean the name was even a clever play on words that also gave them a cute bird icon/mascot.

“Twitter”, with that bird logo is just a slam dunk, that’s solid gold branding… It’s insane to randomly “go a different direction” and then land at “X”. If I was their brand coordinator or director of marketing when they made that change, I’d resign then and there.

Changing their name to “X” was essentially lighting 20% of their assets on fire on day 1.

Oh, I like that one! Direct and to the point.

Hey, since when is it bad to want to kill Nazis? Last I heard that was generally encouraged. It’s the whole moral foundation that the first person shooter genre was based on.

Ok, but can I copy and paste the entire text of an ebook into one of these voice generators and get out a simple mp3 result that doesn’t suck? Asking for a friend.

I mean, yeah, you could do that.

I’m not sure if it would be better than a secret underground base… But you could do it.

With an underground base you could even have the one connection to it be a hard-line, not wireless. You could construct it with a smaller crew, easier to keep under wraps. And I expect that would still be less than 1/100th the price of building it on the moon.

Anyway, I do think the ultimate off site data storage location is a pretty entertaining idea, i’d bet it could make sense for some things, I just can’t imagine what.

If you were on Mars, for example, you would not want to have to contact Earth every single time you wanted to load a web page. And so you would contact Earth the first time to load it. And then it would be saved locally.

Don’t ISPs already do something like this to save on bandwidth on their side? Just saving local copies of commonly accessed files.

At least I remember hearing about that a decade ago, I wonder if that can still happen now that there’s basically https everywhere.

But at any rate, I believe there are at least well established methods for that.

Ok… Data redundancy is a possible application… I will tentatively say that’s a feasible goal, if still probably a stupid one.

I mean, how often do data centers upgrade storage drives? Cause the cost of doing that in space is… unreasonable.

You joke, but actually that is a thing.

When research projects involve super-cooling a substance, after you’ve done as much as you can with convective cooling, researchers will sometimes use lasers to cancel out vibrations within the substance, and cancelling vibrations essentially equals cooling.

Lol, this is the truth. There are many cool opportunities for industry in space, but I gotta be honest, I don’t think datacenters are one of them…

It all depends on what you value.

If you want the fastest phone for the lowest price, then you’re buying into those shady business practices and something akin to slave labor. (Not to sound judgey, I’ve bought my share of iPhones and galaxies too)

But if you want a phone that won’t contribute to a landfill as soon, was made by people paid a fair wage, where any hardware failure doesn’t make you start over with a new phone. Then try something like a fairphone. Specs aside, you’re paying for a different set of features.

I second this comment. It can be extremely tricky to solder something so small with so many contacts so close together.

But… if you get some sharp tweezers, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could pull some lint out of that USB port. And more often than not, that’ll make all the difference and it’ll charge normally again.