I switched to Tidal when I realised their stream quality was, at the minimum, double Spotify, and cheaper. Then all the controversial shit about Spotty came out and I was just shaking my head disapprovingly from Tidal’s porch

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There are many reasons why mentally mature people also find an interest in content designed for immature minds. The first of which that I can list, in regards to bronies and pegasisters being fans of My Little Pony, especially Generation 4, is:

1. That kids shows are chock full of moral lessons that everyone can benefit from.
2. MLP may have more compelling drama plots per episode compared to ‘adult’ soap operas.
3. The desire for a fantastical escape from a world that’s becoming increasingly negative.
4. Psychologically I suspect the characters or settings were very relatable, perhaps in terms of innate desire to:

• Fit in (Twilight)
• Be happier and less depressed (Pinkie)
• Be useful to society/have a loving family (Applejack)
• Be peaceful/coexist with animals (Fluttershy)
• Be popular/cool/more confident (Rainbow)
• Have self-pride/be helpful to friends (Rarity)

5. The fantastical idea that conflicts can be solved with love, not war.
6. Many animations are often designed with references or jokes that only adults would know, and keep them entertained. For example, how many children would recognise Dashie’s morning wing-boner as anything of note, or that one episode was a parody of Murder on the Orient Express?

Either way, something relatively unique and wonderful happened with MLP:FiM.

Makes sense, as all services I’ve encountered that mention age in regards to data collecting imply that it’s illegal to harvest those under 13. Mobile games and other services would not harvest data if you state your age as well below 13, but the increasingly vast majority just say “we will be harvesting you; by clicking this button or making an account you confirm that you are over 13 years of age…” Because, you know, real child protection laws are in effect.

Maybe, maybe not. I recently watched a mini-documentary featuring N64 Tetris tournaments at CTWC (The First Perfect Game of Tetris Just Happened) - this story is of a professional Tetris player who “beat” the game in 2023, aged 13.

There will always be a way to bypass laws that do not serve the people.

At the cost of a less stable value, you can convert your currency to BTC, store it on a physical wallet like those made by Ledger and self-host BTCPay Server to make receiving money easier (alt cryptocurrency available via integrations). As for spending, that depends entirely on the recipient cooperating and accepting BTC. There are also ‘payment gateways’ that should help, including self-hosting a verifiable debit card. I’m still looking into it.

Britain’s government spends an insane amount of money to combat what they claim is benefit fraud, taking actions that hurt real claimants far more than fraudulent ones, in the form of reducing or removing the payments. We’re very used to this kind of waste.

Conservatives and that Australian feminazi group are basically terrorists, their actions do nothing but harm the lifestyle of absolutely everyone, achieve nothing if not toxic control over vulnerable people, and divert valuable and finite resources from real issues.

Ah, that makes sense. The one URL I knew, paheal.net, isn’t blocked but it looks basically identical to the above one

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Proton smells bad for me, too much of a walled-garden and corporate restriction aesthetic with their services. I would recommend Mullvad or NordVPN

I used Jackett until I had to transfer some split up programs to the same machine. Some indexers needed Flaresolverr but it was broken, because my version of Jackett was a service install instead of docker. Anyway it made sense to switch to Prowlarr because I already use Sonarr and Radarr

I feel like, if the land’s law doesn’t bind them, the law shouldn’t protect them. But that’s crazy talk, that’d mean fairness for the average Joe

That’s weird, I can still access all my main sites on the surface with no VPN. One site’s mirror hasn’t even changed domain. I still haven’t seen any proof of these attacks on the legal side

True, but that’s just the price they charge. The actual value of CPU performance, build quality and part quality indicates a midrange device.

In regards to the Pixel Fold (the $1500 devices), well, those in the market for a foldable already prefer to sacrifice device longevity and some practicality for the double screen, and usually aesthetics and gimmicks cost more than bare practicality. The foldables are in a different league, but still are outclassed by others in their price range.

Is beemp3 still up?

1. It’s a budget variant,
2. The Pixel series are midrange, not high-end or flagship

This doesn’t seem like that big a deal, especially as it’s a software update. Easily fixable with a firmware update like GrapheneOS

Persson left Mojang because he was, I imagine like the entire Mojang crew, unprepared for the monolithic success of Minecraft. These are apparently also his reasons for selling to M$: He disliked the fame and responsibility, and wanted to return to what an indie dev always wants - to make smaller games and have a wholesome connection with the gaming community. The last straw for him was a lot of people being assholes at him just because he’s the lead dev of Mojang. So, he handed the reins to Jens Bergensten. GameRant source

On an unrelated side note, Persson has got some shitty opinions, but is quick at patching and apologising for some of them. Im 2016-2019 he expressed anti trans, misogynistic and racist views on Twitter. So, he’s hateful, but he supports consumers. Wikipedia source