ToeNailClippings

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Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with...

ToeNailClippings,

I take screengrabs through the year of products I’m interested in and keep records. So I tend to see when they raise their prices in early November, only to drop it to just above the original price for their Black Friday “deals”.

Really there needs to be changes in consumer law to tackle this. We either lost a bunch of legal protection after Brexit, here in the UK, or the retailers realise they can get away with it. Amazon is really bad at this. So are the really big tech retailers.

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I dont need it, tbh. I’m interested in so little, LOL!

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There’s about 20 things at most that I’ll monitor over the year, so its really not worth the effort.

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Like I said, its about 20 things max. Really not hard to keep track.

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I still have an old laptop running v16 Ubuntu iirc. Basically using it as a sort of media centre.

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More incel vibes than Columbine. If he wasn’t rich he’d never get anywhere near vagina, let alone set up bunkers with his stored semen and fertilised eggs…

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He has a stash of frozen embryos of him and a load of women. There aint a billionaire alive that doesnt have a hidden bunker, too.

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He calls it the (one he tells us about) Cyberhouse. Did tours for TV and youtube iirc

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Thanks, I tried Handbrake and got nothing out of it. I’ll look at their website and see if there is somehting I missed

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I’ll have a look at makemkv and see what that does, thanks!

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sudo apt install libdvd-pkg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

Oh right, cheers.

Just tried that and managed to get an ISO image. So far so good, cheers!!

ToeNailClippings,

Thanks for the reply.

From what little I understand UK law lets us have personal copies but nothing else. Certainly no distributing (and I wouldnt myself). This is just to make my life easier so I can find a film (or even TV show) easier and have it all in one place.

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Thanks, doing the libdvd thing right now, testing an mp4 conversion on the old laptop.

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Thanks for the reply!

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I really prefer the longer videos as he cites sources too.

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I asked a couple of women at work about this and they said “perv” too, so I dont know. Miniminuteman does content shorts blasting poeple for similar beliefs but they’re mostly guys, so I dont think its fair to say its a women only thing.

I do also think its wise for academics not to avoid socials as thats where the misinformation is spreading these days.

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I found that through youtube last night. Wondering if it’ll run on this 5th gen i7 laptop.

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Watching the youtube videos on how it works seems it has a series of VHS options. It wont be as good as modern 4k but will clean it up.

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I know, I cant afford iteither.

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I’ll be honest I dont know any but would love to hear some now!

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Well said.

Yeah I wouldnt buy anything other than lifepo4 (sometimes listed as LFP). I am kind of surprised they dont use these types of batteries in escooters etc, less people would have their homes burned down. They take up about 1/3rd more space but I reckon its doable,.

ToeNailClippings,

Dont buy their branded solar. There are far, far cheaper solar panels (like rigid Voltacon and Renogy) where you can get 2-400w for about £150 depending on the dealer, brand etc.

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No its rated for 3000 cycles for over 90% before on average then drops to about 85% after. The degradation is very slow on this chemistry. And it might be 23 cents where you are, but in other places around the world its a lot more. Up to three times that (we pay 42p now, but were at 55p in January - 68c).

There are also far cheaper solar panels than the Bluetti branded portable ones. I bought a 360w solar panel for £120 here, brand new. The prices do fluctuate (eg cheaper to buy during winter).

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Charging $10 but worth about $1.50

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Reminds me of my workmate who said “I like ALL music, what’ya listening to?”

Squarepusher went down well. 😅

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Oneohtrix Point Never

Just googled and will have to listen later. I’ve scared people with Igorrr and a load of German industrial too.

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I didnt know who she is until this tbh (I live in a conservative English town) so had no vested interest in her story or whatnot. I do wonder if this was an “angle” that record companies so often boast about finding for their artists? Not that its any kind of excuse.

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I’m openly trying to post some positive stuff now and again online. 😁

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It begs the question - why would anyone pay the same as Disney Plus for amateur created content? I dont think Red/Premium has that attraction.

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Seeing how badly our UK government runs public services I dont have any hope they’d run it well.

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Its interesting. You talk to my generation and older and they see the ads as invasive. They grew up with less because of TV. And it wasnt really targetted/personalised like internet ads. Younger people, say mid 20s and under dont realise how many ads those are. I reminds me of the rights people lose over the years because people werent educated on matters.

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Oh I am not saying YTers are unskilled. I am saying the perception is that they are. That will prevent many from paying for those premium subs. Where as with Disney and Amazon, for all their faults people know they’ll get TV and movies written by big teams with big casts.

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Netflix and Disney are threatening ads in their paid services, with maybe a higher priced tier to then avoid them. I think this is the model streaming is going for now.

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We have some regs on advertising here in the UK, but webads have really yet to catch up.

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I know, but with kids in the family its hard …they want to see Mickey etc.

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Oh for sure they even have industrial spies out there in rival’s businesses.

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