Catbox (linked by the other commenter) seems to work for short little video snippets too.

But. Noted on the youtube thing.

That worked, thanks.

World War 3.

But it won’t be a nuclear war that ends the world. (un?)fortunately. – Nuclear war doesn’t benefit the elites – Instead it will be a jillion proxy skirmishes all over the developing world, as countries get puppeteered by Russia/China/USA into fighting their battles, and said countries get ‘support’ in the form of weapons and training that will breed a whole new generation of extremist regimes and terrorists.

In the end, we’ll be back to the same ol’ same ol’ – Life gets shittier for everyone in a gradual, painful, tedious way.

1984 with just a hint of Wall-E.

She would, but only to replace it with a theocracy where she is god.

Rarity instead

Everything else applies

But clothes are fancier.

Blender: Free

The know-how, creativity, and talent to make something good: Takes a lifetime to acquire.

:D

The poor quality solder thing is true, and is true of a lot of hardware of that time period.

Whether or not the towel reflow trick works, I don’t bloody know.

Buttons, knobs, plastic bezels.

At least according to the industry those are all in the past. The future is screens that go to the very edge of the device and absolutely nothing tactile.

And it is bullshit. It is less reliable, less convenient, less cool – To say nothing of the safety disaster that nailing a tablet computer to the dashboard of every car has been.

I’ve met one, back on Reddit

He was one of the most insufferable people I ever had the displeasure of interacting with. Not because of this in particular but yeah.

That’s well and good but I COULD just play gzdoom mods and be entertained for years, if not forever.

I ask friends who are more intelligent than me

And if they don’t know I assume it is forbidden knowledge that would drive me mad to know

(I am only half joking)

Step 1. Replace plasma for something lighter like xfce or wayfire with all the fancier effects disabled

Step 2. GZDoom mods.

Send them a zip-bomb.

Jars, eh?

As an anarchist who also loves the aesthetics of medieval royalty, this speaks to me.

Both do exist. But only the p2w whales can have the cool mounts. And as for legendary gear, it’s all rather underwhelming.

I understand.

I even respect the general idea.

… But I will literally never willingly pay for an appliance-like piece of technology. I even sold off the one I got for free.

Android at least lets me sideload stuff and/or install it from F-Droid.

I don’t even think it’s good for gooning – It’s much heavier than a phone, so you can’t hold it in one hand (unless you have unnaturally strong and dextrous fingers?)

Like sure, that screen is big and pretty, but without something to hold the device up it’s not a comfy experience.

Man it wasn’t even anything crazy. It’s just.

All my android devices have a syncthing service that… Syncs. Things. Between them and my PC/Homeserver.

Now, the only app for Syncthing I could find on the Apple App store was a paid app, but I was actually fine with that: It seems Apple stuff is made for rich people, and I had accepted that everything would be paid for.

Except.

When you use Syncthing on Android it just. Drops things into folders. Like a normal program on a normal computer. And other applications can just access that.

But nope, not here. Everything is in its own cage, and the user has exactly ZERO control over this (unlike, say, the likes of Flatpak on Linux, where it’s just a matter of granting permission manually)

My comic book folder? I had to go through a cumbersome process to manually import all the cbr files into the comic reader app. Same for my video files.

Plus like. Just the lack of options in general. It felt like I was in an airport – Stuck in an, admittedly nice, environment and only having access to whatever overpriced products existed inside that environment.

Probably the iPad

Got it for free from a relative who had bought a newer model (he always has the latest iShit)

Played around with it for a week

Sure. It’s smooth. That screen was drop dead gorgeous.

… And yet everything I tried to do on the thing felt like I was fighting against it. Everything was restrained and needlessly clunky. It made me think “golly gee, windows cooperates more”