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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

ShepherdPie ,

You just gotta show up.

ShepherdPie ,

So what about Tesla, Kia, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota, Subaru, and all the rest? You say we can't afford cars yet 15 million new cars are sold every year here. New cars have never been something that just anyone can buy which is why the used market is so much larger.

Selling Chinese EVs here below cost isn't going to improve anything. It's just going to put a bunch of competitors out of business and drive wages even further down.

ShepherdPie ,

You're describing the Bolt and it sells terribly here. The Model 3 outsells it 20:1 in any given month.

ShepherdPie ,

Not exactly true when they're selling them for $10k-$15k. The Bolt is comparable to a Chinese EV and they only sell around 2k per month while something like the Model 3 sells 50k per month.

If you lowered the price of the Bolt to the price of a 10 year old used Camry, I'm sure it would sell a lot better but this is an artificial price that completely distorts the market and puts a lot of people out of work for what amounts to a temporary savings. This is the whole point of tariffs. They level the playing field for everyone.

ShepherdPie ,

Where does that say anything about exports? The article is talking about US factories and this coincides with the federal government implementing stricter fuel standards on these same manufacturers. This money is to help them ease into developing brand new platforms after implementing stricter standards.

Furthermore, that $15B is a drop in the bucket for what China is subsidizing. That equates to about a single quarters worth of subsidies for a company like BYD in order to sell their cars for $10k-$15k out the door.

ShepherdPie ,

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/03/next-gen-chevy-bolt-ev-to-arrive-for-2026-model-year/

ShepherdPie ,

The added price is likely partially due to the development costs for these companies retooling their factories and doing R&D to develop these new platforms in a company that has been building ICE vehicles for the past 50-100 years. Luxury vehicles bring a markup that helps to offset these costs until these vehicles become more ubiquitous, parts are easier to source, and prices come down. You can't compare the cost of a brand new design to something like the Camry which had the general design ironed out 40+ years ago.

If you look at sales numbers, the Model 3 is outselling the cheap alternatives like the Leaf and Bolt 20:1, so it seems like many people are willingly choosing to pay more rather than buy the econobox option. The average sale price for a (any) new vehicle is around $50k currently, and there are a multitude of options in that price range.

ShepherdPie ,

With the $7500 credit, the Bolt is the same price or slightly cheaper than the Fit when you account for inflation.

China is able to sell these vehicles for this cheap because the government is giving these companies cash to sell them at these artificially low prices. That's the whole point of this discussion and the proposed tariffs as none of the competition will be receiving subsidies at these levels in order to compete. China is also known for lax worker protections which helps to drive the costs down further at the expense of the workforce and is not something they'll be able to do if they manufacture here.

ShepherdPie ,

Often what people say they want and what they actually spend their money on are not even in the same ballpark. This reminds me of all the guys from /r/Cars who'd say they dream of some stripped down vehicle with crank windows and no features but when manufacturers make them, nobody actually buys them.

ShepherdPie ,

I agree, but I think we'll have to wait for the technology to mature a bit. It seems the battery chemistry and design are what's stalling things but lots of companies are investing in new tech like solid state batteries.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad (www.theregister.com)

The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine's unstoppable force.

ShepherdPie ,

I think it's supposed to be inflammatory so that we all talk about it and make it viral. This isn't the first time Apple has done this.

ShepherdPie ,

Then it shouldn't be an issue to implement it then right?

ShepherdPie ,

The problem is that $10-$15k Chinese EVs aren't competition as the Chinese government is paying the company directly for them to be that cheap. That's in comparison to a country where the best companies get is a $7500 credit toward their purchase. I would absolutely support Chinese EVs in the US if they weren't trying to undercut everyone with unsustainable subsidies just to put everyone else out of business.

ShepherdPie ,

Certainly but this can also be viewed as helping ease the transition for automakers since they've also implemented stricter efficiency rules upon them at the same time.

If we assume China is subsidizing $15k per car to allow them to sell for $10k, that $12B in US subsidies equates to about a single quarter worth of sales for just BYD alone, or 800k cars. There is no way we can match those subsidies for the rest of the players in the American market as around 13.5 million new cars are sold in the US each year.

ShepherdPie ,

I've done the same with Netflix for years and previously had the 4 streams 4k plan up until they implemented their bullshit password sharing rules. Now I have the $6.99 plan and only keep it because my MIL babysits for us and likes to watch all the K dramas on there.

ShepherdPie ,

Electronics too (like LEDs, microcontrollers, and sensors not phones and TVs). Often brands have a store on both Ali and Amazon but Ali is cheaper with longer shipping times of basically a week to a week and a half.

ShepherdPie ,

The point is to elicit positive emotions and associate them with a brand.

This is super obvious in pharmaceutical commercials as they all follow the same formula of upbeat music, people either enjoying nature or a party with friends, and lots of smiling as the voice-over tells you about the anal leakage and heart failure side effects.

ShepherdPie ,

I agree too. Just the classifications alone seem close enough, and GHB is absolutely a 'club' drug that also happens to be a date rape drug. Back in my heyday, I knew several people that would use it recreationally when we'd go out to an EDM show (or in the hours after we got back to the crash pad to keep the party going).

I didn't read the whole thing, so I can comment on specific content like 'weed being a gateway' drug, but that's been disproven time and time again and this type of propaganda is common from schools and the government as they're bound by archaic laws to portray drugs in such a way.

ShepherdPie ,

I'd argue that if there is any gateway effect, it's solely related to the propaganda taught to the public that falls apart once you've actually tried some of them.

I don't think there's anything inherent about the drugs themselves that would drive you to try anything stronger. It's more that the misinformation makes people think "if they lied to me about this, what else were they lying about?" after trying something like weed and realizing it doesn't turn you into a psychopath or make you want to jump out of a window.

ShepherdPie ,

I'd argue that it's not better if they don't get a sweet, ironic T-shirt to wear to the dispensary after the fact.

ShepherdPie ,

I honestly never tried it simply because the connotations with it being the "date rape" drug (and also because I was already enjoying myself with other stuff).

ShepherdPie ,

Separate library was my thought as well. I'm also hesitant to put any requested movies on my server that are along the same vein, but if it's not too many, it really doesn't matter at the end or the day. It's just some crappy movies in a sea of other movies.

ShepherdPie ,

Me too. I thought these would be a bunch of 1TB HDDs but OP blew us away with them being 8TB.

ShepherdPie ,

It's an IP issue. Nobody wants to be the one responsible for leaking someone's proprietary design or PII just to make a little bit of cash from selling used drives. My work has 55 gallon drums with a slot on top to dispose of hard drives for this same reason.

ShepherdPie ,

It won't work as they use more than this to tie your accounts to you. I was permabanned for the same thing and tried multiple IPs. Mine was for mentioning piracy in /r/movies and then accidently commenting there on another account that was still subbed weeks later.

ShepherdPie ,

Tesla is an American company. The 'traditional' American auto companies like GM and Ford don't even build or source a lot of their parts in the US and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep has been owned by a European company for quite a while now. This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.

ShepherdPie ,

Because it's part of the communist agenda.

ShepherdPie ,

Nah before that was Bush and Cheney getting us into decades long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because some Saudis attacked us.

ShepherdPie ,

Not to mention ethanol (what the previous person kept referring to as "gasoline") is far less efficient, can only be used in high quantities on certain types of engines, and creates excessive smog during warmer months.

Don't forget that every acre of corn grown for ethanol is one less acre of food grown and when you increase from 10% ethanol to 100%, you're going to need 10x the amount of land to grow these crops all so we can pay top dollar at the pump to live in smog filled cities and get 10MPG in our vehicles.

ShepherdPie ,

So you want to end subsidies for oil and gas, for farmers to grow corn that gets turned into ethanol, or just subsidies for EVs? Let's be clear here.

ShepherdPie ,

Home improvement stores and autoparts stores will rent out tools for home projects or automotive projects. Looking at my library they also offer kitchen stuff, arts and crafts, 3d printing, board games and a ton more. I have no idea where you'd rent that kind of stuff here in the US.

ShepherdPie ,

What would you search for to find one in your area?

ShepherdPie ,

I've noticed half the subs are now marked as "NSFW" when searching for something like a plumbing issue for example, which won't allow you to see the posts without using the reddit app.

ShepherdPie ,

I do (and did when I was still there) use it on a desktop but on a phone it directs you to the terrible mobile site where the HVAC and plumbing subreddits are somehow NSFW and restricted. Maybe next time I'll try to manually redirect to old.reddit and see if it works.

ShepherdPie ,

There is definitely a case for having a separate device for something a smartphone can do, if it can do it better, e.g a camera.

Frankly things have gone full circle and the list of "external devices that can do it better" seems to get larger and larger each release. Pretty much all phones excel at these days is scrolling through social media and keeping us entertained on the toilet.

ShepherdPie ,

How can you talk about personal responsibility while blaming engineers for the fact that this guy intentionally closed his finger in a car door?

ShepherdPie ,

Nobody wants to discuss the logic involved with having to open the door and then close it again for it to attempt to close harder and why that isn't the dire safety hazard that people are trying to make it out to be. These people are the reason why we have to have "no smoking" signs at gas pumps because apparently they'd leave their hand in the door after attempting to close it 3 or 4 times.

ShepherdPie ,

I did read it and I'm also reading it in the context of the article and the rabid group-think here claiming that a potential injury after closing your hand in a door four times in a row is somehow the companies fault or the fault of the engineering department.

ShepherdPie ,

If you have to rely on the appeal to emotion fallacy to do the heavy lifting for your argument, I suppose you're correct that there's nothing left to discuss.

Personally, I learned long ago not to close my hand in a door after the first attempt. I suppose there's a reason why some people need safety warnings not to use their toaster in the bathtub, and we should all live by those standards.

ShepherdPie ,

Your entire argument is an appeal to emotion as if logic should be ignored in this situation simply because "safety" when in reality someone would need to close their body part in a door four times in a row before they were even remotely at risk of being injured.

You followed that fallacy up with an ad hominem by claiming that I must be dumb because I don't blindly support your emotional argument about safety even though you have yet to explain how this is even unsafe in a real world scenario. My second paragraph highlighted similar scenarios where exceptionally special people might injure themselves by doing something idiotic and dangerous that no average person would ever do, yet we must still be warned about.

Care to take a crack at making an argument without relying on fallacies the whole time?

ShepherdPie ,

https://lemmy.world/comment/9783776

https://lemmy.world/comment/9789974

I was there for this one!

ShepherdPie ,

It's not the bitrate and resolution it's the video and audio codecs that need to be supported.

ShepherdPie ,

It should as its only holding a trash bag in place provided the bag is tall enough to touch the bottom of the can.

ShepherdPie ,

Try tying it before you put the bag in. It takes trial and error to know how much slack to leave, but it'll allow you to get a tight fit once you get the length right.

ShepherdPie ,

I see this repeated a lot but can't see how it's possibly the case. Dude has burned so many bridges over the last few years and I can't say that I ever see anyone actually defend him personally. I think it's more that his "anti-fans" see any positive comment toward SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, or anything else as someone defending/supporting him when that simply isn't the case.

ShepherdPie ,

Why do you assume everyone follows Musks words as much as you do?

ShepherdPie ,

Yes? I've been considering buying an EV for a while and the only spam/advertising I see are the constant non-technology posts about Musk in technology communities such as this and on reddit. I'm not sure why you're operating under the assumption that you have some secret insider knowledge about Tesla or that anyone else is too stupid to see through some BS marketing claims from years ago.

ShepherdPie , (edited )

Jesus christ this explains why occasionally I'll pull my phone out of my pocket and it forces me to input the pin rather than the thumb print. It's just one of those mildly annoying things that you wonder about but don't think about enough to search for the answer.

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