EnsignWashout

Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.

Prove me wrong.

I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

That's me. It used to be common for games to have a sharp ramp up in challenge at the end boss, and I often don't have the time to get through that.

So I habitatually abandon games when I feel close to the end, and I watch the ending on a stream, instead of playing it.

I realize that minimal research could tell me which games are which, but even less research finds me a decent stream of the game ending.

A manufacturer phone pre-installed with LineageOS would be awesome.

I'm partial to RetroPi or Batocera, so I end up with a retro game console and media player in one. This build works with anything compatible with Kodi. Excellent for home media, but paid and free streaming services are hit and miss.

There's also builds of Android Open Source Protect for Raspberry Pi, which have much better support for streaming apps, since anything that works on an Android Phone works, as long as the streaming service developer hasn't done anything stupid.

Edit: A warning though - Android on Raspberry Pi is still very new. Think Alpha/Beta test. I think that Android on ARM chips, in general, is new. It'll get good, but your mileage may vary, for now.

Thanks!

Voiding all IP law would cause a huge loss in the creative community.

I agree. I wouldn't be in favor of "burn it down" if I thought we could negotiate better terms with our current IP oligarchs.

If people can no longer pay their bills by creating then they stop creating and work.

I'll still be available to do creative work. It wouldn't change my current work-for-hire efforts.

Very little valuable IP is held by actual creators, today.

Why dump years and your heart and soul into a great book just to have it distributed for free and be poor.

Are you an actual published creator, or a temporarily embarrassed future billionaire? Is there a version of success for you that isn't just selling to a big IP company to get enough money to retire? That's what it looks like, to me. The peak of my possible success would be to write something that threatens/tempts the big IP holders enough to force them to buy me out. If I don't take the buy out, they eventually bury my thing with their advertising power.

I don't really disagree with you. I'm actually in favor of keeping and fixing IP laws, if that's possible.

But I believe the IP laws we have now only serve our billionaire employers. So, as a creator, I won't fight to keep our current IP laws.

Your utopia is every creator's nightmare.

I didn't say "utopia". We need IP laws. But since we continue to let Disney (and other mega corporations) dictate the entire terms of engagement - we need to bring "burning the whole thing down and starting over" into the list of options under consideration. It's the only way to bring Disney back to the bargaining table, at minimum.

Edit: A more practical approach would be to disolve every company that has engaged in an illegal merger (most large US companies). But I think that's actually harder to accomplish, today, than voiding all IP law. It's a better option, if we can swing it. The necessary laws are already on the books, they're simply un-enforced.

There's various builds for Raspberry Pi that make decent media centers.

Jeff Bezos never smashed the window on my car to steal my speakers,

True.

he doesnt come out vandalising public transport or parks and he isnt the reason my wife doesnt feel safe walking around at night.

If we could even comprehend the scale of his unpaid taxes, or their impact on our parks, we might discuss this at length...

Movie theaters are really expensive, so I'm not paying attention to what Hollywood is making right now.

• Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo?

Yes.

• Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?

I'm in the same boat. I'll be trying out these answers.

Is also very very queer tho JSYK

That could be our new Lemmy slogan.