Yes, and I like to buy refurbished phones. It is usually easy to get a 1-2 year old phone, but if people don't change their phones as often, do I have to use a really old phone?

(The last one was an absolute steal, 1/4 the retail price after 18 months because of some cosmetic damage. Top of the line, most powerful phone I ever had by far.)

The onus should be on the parents and their agents to control and restrict any internet-connected devices that children have access to. Children should not have unrestricted access to the Internet, unless directly supervised by an adult. The end.

There aren't just "some" sites that are a problem. There are millions of them. Trying to control all sites and strip adults of their privacy is not an acceptable way to deal with the problem. A whitelist restrict is needed. It needs to be made socially unacceptable and shocking that a minor has full access to the Internet on any device, or to call/text/media to/from a stranger.

They need to put this energy into helping to make better/newer/easier lock-down tools for devices parents want to give to minors and leave everyone else alone.

>"Man I was with you right up until this corny line. It costs a shit ton to develop and maintain all of these player clients."

The player clients exist regardless of what network it is used on. It doesn't change with viewing "outside" your own network to some other server. Money is fungible, of course. But there is nothing about your rent payment to enable "remote" use of a different server that costs any development money for a Plex client. They might host an entry in a reflector, but that, again, requires essentially no new development on maintenance- it is already present so you can reach your own server with the "free" plan.

The useless crap that used to be made by bad writers is now made by robots

In the EU, you can just click "enroll" and boom, Windows 10 is supported yet another year with security updates, and no need to worry about AI getting in the way (that much). AFAIK elsewhere you need to enable the stupid cloud backups, but with some tricks you can avoid that too.

I'm still running Win 10 Education, I got the license from my university via Dreamspark back when it was a thing, and now I enrolled also for ESUs for that. I should be covered until 2028.

(Migrated to Linux on most of my PCs, but using Windows for gaming. After 2028 I guess I'll migrate to Steam Deck).

They never heard of direct to air cooling? There is no need to evaporate clean water.

SMRs could be useful to replace older small coal stations where the smaller lines and transformers already exist.

So they should remove the price control scam and free the market.

Ditto in Central Europe.

Hmm, so Dark Matter is Grue poop?

>"The Remote Watch Pass costs $2 per month or $20 per year, but there's no lifetime purchase option."

That is because we aren't allowed to buy anything anymore. We have to RENT your access so it continues to cost money forever. Especially ridiculous on things like this, which really require no maintenance resources.

The green scams gave the UK the most expensive energy. Maybe AI will provide some sanity.

Exactly. Training and operation are different beasts. Maybe the answer is 42 after all.

It's common knowledge among AI researchers
The hypemongers spin a different tale

Jellyfin is open source so that can't happen.