The comment I replied to said: “There are plenty of people with restricted and surveilled internet”, so: through restrictions and surveillance, which is how North Korea, China and Russia mostly goes about it. Prohibiting certain pieces of software (or even algorithms) isn’t exactly something new — morally wrong, absolutely, but nothing new.

Sure, but do you think they’re going to allow Firefox if it comes with a built-in VPN?

Please stop adding bloat to my browser. I have nothing against VPN, but it’s not a fucking core feature of a web browser. Put that stuff in an extension that I can install if I want.

If you got it as a key you can maybe trade it? I’m sure there are still places around where you can trade stuff like that.

Way back in 2013 or so I got a Watch_Dogs key with my GeForce GTX 770. I traded the key for a couple of older but (to me) more interesting games.

Hvori ligger dilemmaet? Det virker som en rimelig klokkeklar dum idé at tage til USA lige nu.

I refuse to believe that it’s in any way better or faster at unit and currency conversion than plain Google or DuckDuckGo. Literally type “100 EUR to USD” and you’ll get an almost instant answer. Same with units: “100 feet to meters”.

And if you’re using it, you’re helping their business. It’s as simple as that.

Jesus fucking Christ, man. RSS parsers and emailing are literally next up after “Hello, World” in programming. If that would have required “months and months of learning” as you stated elsewhere, then maybe programming just isn’t for you — AI or no AI. It’s OK not being able to do something! However, it’s some next level 1st world entitlement shit to think that you’re somehow entitled to be able to create programs without any effort on your part and with a complete disregard for the cost to the environment and the planet.

It’s fucking insane how much is invested (both money and natural resources) in the emperor’s new clothes. Let’s scorch the planet because every idiot out there buys into the marketing and hype. We are utterly and truly doomed because of ourselves.

You have no time constraints when making a playlist. It doesn’t have to fit neatly into 2x 30 or 45 minutes. And because it has to fit into that time constraint, it affects the choice of tracks and their placement into the aforementioned flow. Including a track like Herbie Hancock’s Chameleon has a huge impact on a mixtape, but on a playlist it’s just another song.

I don’t subscribe to any streaming services. I have vinyls and tapes. If I want to listen to music on the go, I use my walkman with music I’ve recorded from vinyl or, in very rare cases, YouTube.

My 9 year-old has a walkman too and it’s the greatest thing ever. She doesn’t have a smartphone, but the walkman enables her to listen to her own mixtape when we’re traveling. She loves it.

Actually, I’ve seen quite a few people with feature phones around lately, a walkman would be perfect for them for the sale reason.

Also, making mixtapes is still as great as it was back then. A playlist is not the same, not by a long shot. I made one for my little sister recently and it was all kinds of fun to make sure both sides were filled, that the mood and energy was cohesive, that it was tracks I genuinely believed she would enjoy but also tracks that I knew she wouldn’t seek out on her own. (Fuck algorithms for recommending music — they won’t challenge you or surprise you.)