Jellyfin FTW!

How the heck does plex have 120 employees?

As to why this was just posted now, it's because - of those 120 employees who went to the retreat, only one survived... and it took him almost 9 years to escape.

Amazon's DRM has changed a couple of times. If you want to get purchased content out of the Amazon eco-system, using an older Kindle is easiest. I suspect that's the only real motivation here.

We really need legislation around the client/server issues. There is no technical reason (other than DRM) to disable these devices. Similarly, game studios that choose to stop running servers for non-profit able games. What does it mean, to "purchase" a client that can be disabled st the whim of the producer?

I'm sorry, but anyone who asks Epstein for antibiotics to treat their STD from sleeping with Epstein-provided prostitutes, also surreptitiously slipping some antibiotics to his wife in case he infected her, is someone I no longer give the benefit of the doubt to. Look at Bill Gates' shifty sly grin when he denounced having social ties to Epstein on a television interview. That shifty grin is the same grin he had in his mugshot when being arrested for a traffic violation as a young adult. He breaks the rules, smiles about it, and continues on with his narcissistic, malignant behavior. Stop glazing him, he won't glaze you back.

Well, speaking for myself - I may "rent" them but I also immediately decrypt them and store a local copy elsewhere.

I don't buy media I can't decrypt, one way or another.

I likely would still be using my Kindle 3 Keyboard, except my dog got hold of it at one point.

I still think that was the best form factor they've ever offered.

I've never owned a laptop that needed a display panel, keyboard, or motherboard replaced.

I don't think I've attempted to repair a laptop in 20 years. Few laptops these days are very serviceable. They are also sufficiently reliable that it's pretty rare for anything to break unless they are physically dropped.

Obligatory.

At Walmart, extremely low quality everything is available year-round.

The LARPER had mail underneath the plate. More I do not know/remember.

The plate you saw in the museum with the dent, might have been a test shot. In Europe it was common to deliver plate armor to customers after they got a dent by a test shot.

Armor got kind of less relevant when people recognized that you can have an unarmored group of riflemen out maneuver old school guys in heavy armor. And unfortunately the people with the guns upgraded to artillery ...

I expect that 30 years from now, we'll find all sorts of expensive systems becoming less important versus just massive numbers of drones. definitely.

Just look at the 3D voxel art they do with drones that have some lights, or the drones flying directly into the barrel of an enemy tank. Does not need to destroy the tank or kill the crew. Gun gone, tank useless.

Under perfect conditions, perhaps.
In general: no. No way.

No where in the world (except perhaps your place), it is legal that a balcony solar plant feeds into the grid when the grid power is gone. In Germany it is explicitly checked when you install one.

The ones I know from Thailand are imported from China: they all switch off when the grid power / frequency is gone.

You would manually need to bridge that ...

I know people with these meters have been charged for unintentional export because they for example had the CT installed backwards.
That does not make any sense. Electricity does not work that way.

No idea.
If you mean tank: depends how big your tank is.
If you mean battery: depends how big your battery is.

The distance is 572km ... so basically every electric car and every gasoline/diesel car should make it.

However: if you mean with Tank a Panzer ... then one tank would not get you very far. As Poland and Germany is now allied ... I assume, yes you can go with one Tank with renewables from Berlin to Warsaw.

Perhaps you should learn what full stack development means. Java or Scala etc. on the backend and HTML, JavaScript on the front end: is not full stack. It is two half stacks. Facepalm.

The rest of your rant is pretty pointless, did you just google Vue.js etc. or did you know about them in advance?

You use frameworks to write less code.

It is a difference if I have to write 1000lines by hand for brain dead simple html nonsense, or only 100 lines, easy to read which are backed up by a framework.

Point is: Java in the browser does not exist since 20 years.
And the other point is: JavaScript - and if you do not like its type system, use TypeScript - is an EXCELLENT language since over 20 years.

The "browser wars" and JS does not work in this browser as supposed and that browser: are long ago history.

And if you do not know how stuff works: don't invent stupid shit like "developer is running to boss and tells him how you suck".

Since decades we can minimize JS and only package what the browser really needs. And yes, of course: for that you need to know what tool to use. And that tool will with 99% certainty be written in JS or its derivates and run on node.js. /DISCLAIMER: I have nothing to do with JavaScript. I am a Java, C++, Dart programmer. And even I know this shit ... and you don't.

People shit talking on /. about JavaScript: are simply braindead mindless drones who never read "news for nerds, stuff that matters", stuck in their 1980s fake knowledge.

No one in our days can still claim that JS is on the niveau of 1997. Hint: it is not.