If this was about installing Linux ISOs, then yes, Blu Ray would be outdated. In reality, this is driven by the large collections of HD Japanese animation that has historically been sold on Blu-Ray disks. It would be a bit like someone who wants a CD drive reader to play old music they bought, but it's much more widespread in Japanese culture to have these, and it largely hasn't migrated to another medium. Spotify was able to replace music CDs because it's convenient, but anime has a few differences. First, Anime files are much much larger (gigabytes) so you can't store a library on phone storage. Second, the huge file sizes make them inconvenient to re-download every time you want to watch them (like streaming services tend to do). Streaming services will often send lower quality versions e.g. 720p instead of the 4GiB 4K version people are used to watching on the Blu-ray disk.

Lastly, while using a phone might have similar sound quality to a computer or TV, the same cannot be said about the screen size! For watching on laptops, which don't usually have cellular connections, having a physical media can be more convenient when traveling.

In Japan, it's quite common for the so-called "Otaku" to have entire shelves filled with boxed copies of these Blu-ray disks for various anime series. In the west we tend to view the lower quality streaming version or just pirate it, as the culture around buying Blu-ray disks for our anime/movies doesn't exist in the same way, mainly because the prices are a bit too high for our market tastes. (If they were around $3-4 per season instead of $20+, I think they would sell much more in the west.)

Could they use USB? Yes if you pirate them, but almost all the "legit" ones were sold as Blu-ray, not USB sticks.

Ppl have less sex because they are stressed and overworked by the ruling class. People get a lower share of thier productivity than ever before.

Mini splits are a type of air conditioning... Central vs Mini Split A/C is a thing, but both central a/c and mini-split a/c are types of air conditioners.

Calling the previous setup a tax break is disingenuous. The current setup is more like an additional tax on R&D salaries whereas you used to be able to expense it like any other salary.

Everyone is a bit unusual and unique. It used to be that mental disorders were serious conditions. Now every minor deviation is a mental disorder. I have mixed feelings, it does seem like we overdiagnose, but it also means people have better access to psychoactive medications that can help them. I would rather we admit what we are actually doing, which is to optimize ourselves using psychoactive medications.

Font faces cant be copyrighted in the USA. So it's not a pirated Font, it's a free clone. Font files contain more than just the font face, but the face itself can be freely cloned.

Net neutrality does some important things. 1.), it protects p2p traffic which isps have a history of discriminating against. 2.) It allows hosting a business off a residential connection and for the case of Verizon ib particular 3.) it prevents mobile isps from discrimnating against laptops (which they currently do to boost contract phone sales).

Specifically, the court is wrong to call that license open source as a matter of law. We need legislation to reclaim the term open source as I see many companies misusing the term.

If they hold the copyright, they can change the license and offer new versions under a different, non-GPL license. The only thing in the courts opinion that I see as problematic is this: 5. In May 2018, Neo4j USA released Neo4j EE version (“v”) 3.4, which they continued to offer under an open-source license; however, they replaced the AGPL with a stricter license, which included additional restrictions provided by the new Commons Clause. First MSJ Order 3. The Commons Clause prohibited the non-paying public from engaging in commercial resale and certain commercial support services. Id. This stricter license is referred to as the “Neo4j Sweden Software License.” Id. The license is not open source. We have long held that restrictions on commercial use render a license non-open source.

Instead of admitting that thermodynamics doesn't work at a quantum level, lets just pretend that time flows backwards so we can explain the fact that entropy can spontaneously decrease in a quantum system (which violates the laws of thermodynamics). Thermodynamics arise from a statistical property, it's not an intrinsic rule that that governs the universe, and time is not in fact going backwards.

Llama is not open source. I don't know about deepseek. Maybe I need to sue meta for unfair and deceptive advertising...

The problem with these studies is that they do not show cause. Is "ultra processed" the cause or merely e.g. associated with higher sugar content? I think there are many likely culprits besides processing.

The problem is that "processed food" is not well defined. There are likely specific types of processing or processes foods that contribute to this effect. We already know that yogurt is ultra processed, but is inversely associated with mortality. Evidence against ultra processed food is extrodinarily weak pseudo-science. Real science requires controlled experiments, not surveys.

The problem is that these countries aren't rich. Rich countries can afford not only manufacturing, but construction of homes to modern standards. Rich countries don't have to work 24/7. We have gotten poorer and our standards of living have declined. It seems monopoly-capitalism has reached its expiry date, and we're eating rotten food. This is mainly caused by a few factors, aside from giving way too much money to old people, exploiting the workers, allowing corporations to merge (thus destroy competition) and own other corporations (again destroying competition), governments reserving land when we don't have enough, etc... If they'd stop taxing the workers as much and giving all the money to unrproductive old people it would solve 20% of the issue, and another 20% by taxing rent seeking behaviors and fairly distributing land, with the remaining 60% of the problem caused by governments. The problem is not being rich, it's being overworked. 40 hours is too many hours to work unless you have plenty of funds left over to have services done at home to take care of all personal work needs. The reality is people aren't hiring maids, they are cleaning their own houses. They are fixing their own cars, managing their own house, etc. Basically we work too much when you consider all the unpaid self-help labor we do that has resulted from increasing labor costs. Expensive living and labor leads to inefficient allocation of resources and overwork. This is ironic but true. We need to rework the incentive structure to fix this problem.

is garbage... I switched back to windows and macos... A bit sad, because Linux could be promising. But unfortunately there aren't enough people able to fund a decent linux desktop anymore... and the stuff that gets funded... is systemd...