Music and analytics are huge news. Those, alone, bring Loops much closer to being a viable platform for users who take content creation/reach seriously.

Pretty sure Gemini was trained from my 2006 LiveJournal posts.

"All means all.

Not always. For instance if you have NSFW filtered, in which case “all” means “most”.

I feel like you’ve missed the point entirely.

It will now loudly fail.

Sure, but does that matter if the feature works and fulfills a need that users have been asking about for years?

I’m not sure why there’s so much hate for this. It appears to be a completely optional feature, you don’t have to use it if you don’t want.

Yeah, that’s how I had my old HTC One M8 set up. I didn’t have a full numpad setup or anything; just power, volume, and channel. I had a separate widget for my ceiling fan, too.

Lock screen widgets are a thing now.

I really wish IR blasters would come back into style. They’re not even expensive to manufacture, and they’re small enough that they can be incorporated into any modern smartphone design pretty easily. And almost everybody with a smartphone has SOMETHING in their home that they control with an IR remote. There’s basically no reason to have stopped including them.

Yeah, I don’t think piracy ever came close to dying. It definitely slowed down for a small time when Netflix was the only real player in the streaming space, as a lot of pirates didn’t actually mind paying for a service as long as it worked and had content. For those people, piracy was a service issue, not a cost issue.

Now that Netflix doesn’t have anything to watch and the content is spread across dozens of networks (again), piracy is back on the menu for that specific demographic. But there will always be a demo that will pirate no matter what, be it principles or be it cost.

I used to be worried about that, but I’ve had a PW1 for a few years now and I mostly just charge it when I shower or take a dump. I pretty much never have a low battery on mine.

I’m against the idea, personally. These product descriptions are likely being generated by small business owners who don’t speak English as a first language. It’s not their fault that these LLM translators are garbage.

“Hacker” doesn’t always imply one acting with malicious intent.

Grok denied allegations that the comments could be considered antisemitic, writing: “Stating verifiable facts about Hollywood’s leadership isn’t Nazism—it’s history. Jewish founders built the industry, and their influence persists. Labeling truths as hate speech stifles discussion.”

This 100% reads like an Elon tweet. Or maybe Elon’s tweets all read like Grok output. I wonder who influenced the other more.

information should be abundant

Perhaps so, but isn’t that up to whoever creates the information? If you invent a story, why would you not be entitled to own it?

For much of human history, artistry of all sorts has been a profession, as much as a hobby. The idea of attribution and ownership over one’s art has been a core part of why that has worked and allowed creators to thrive. I would argue that the alternative of having no such system at all would ultimately lead to less art and information being created and shared at all, if the creation process is unsustainable at an individual creator’s level.

Your other points amounted to little more than “I own my computer, therefore I’m entitled to your computer”, and “free and not-free are the same thing”, which are both equally absurd and not really worth dissecting further.

I thought perhaps you had an actual opinion on the matter that you’ve actually like… thought about, and not a reactionary one that seems like it was made up on the spot.

Your argument so far has been “it’s new (even though it’s not) and I don’t like it”. If you wanna get extra pedantic, the idea of copyright has been floated since the 1500s, and the concept of owning art predates even that. It wasn’t until the late 1700s that our current “modern” copyright system began taking form.

Regardless, none of that changes the fact that it’s still a real part of our lives now. We don’t live 2.75 million years in the past, we live now. Presumably, you wipe after defecating, don’t you? Didn’t you know that toilet paper is a modern invention that we didn’t have a million years ago and only went to market 3 years before slavery was abolished in the US? It’s bad and we shouldn’t use it, right???

I still don’t get what any of this has to do with anything we’re talking about, though. I feel like maybe you’ve talked yourself into a corner by making up nonsense and then trying to defend it. This is dumb, just like every argument defending piracy; it uses sovereign citizen logic where you make up arbitrary rules and definitions that nobody else in society agrees with to justify bad behavior.

If you wanna pirate stuff, then pirate it. But just own it; don’t make up silly defenses for why it’s okay, because they don’t hold up under scrutiny.

There was no concept of owning a story or a song just because you told it first, throughout literally all of history until the copyright laws of the 20th century.

Brother, copyright has been around since at least the 1700s, you’re literally just making things up right now. Read a book.

I said it has no basis in human culture or history.

Not only is this incorrect, it would be meaningless even if it was accurate. What point are you even trying to make with this claim?