Saik0

You using crypto to buy your toilet paper is not a mass scale use case and it is irrelevant.

So then you claim that being able to buy stuff isn’t a “mass scale” use case…

You realize that’s fucking stupid right?

As I said, I can and do buy things regularly (though “rare” comparatively with the normal fiat purchases) with crypto. Other’s can do with me as well as the sites that I do it on do it as well. I can prove that by looking at the block chain and seeing the traffic in their wallets.

So “way to go man!” Unless you actually have something more meaningful than “nuh uh”. You’re kind of full of shit.

Edit: Lack of “big” vendors doing it != not possible at mass scale.

Dell at one point accepted crypto. They stopped because of regulation, not because of technical limitation. And sites like Newegg still accept it.

Over the 15+ years that we’ve had crypto, there have been only two viable uses. All others have failed:

Criminal activity (including brutal stuff like enabling NK/Russia and drug cartels)
Financial speculation (in of itself often a malicious activity where the goal is to dump your worthless bags on a mark)

Huh, Weird… Every use I’ve ever used crypto for doesn’t fall into these two categories. So I guess your assumptions and thus everything you based your logic/responses on must be faulty and incorrect.

I use Crypto much like I use my second language/citizenship. Rarely… However, that doesn’t mean I don’t use it legally. And simply holding onto the crypto != financial speculation. Nobody treats a savings account as “financial speculation”.

I’ve paid for plenty of things from my crypto wallets. Ranging from several to thousands of dollars.

And yes, I would like my payment for toilet paper and bell peppers to be private. Strictly for the fact that I don’t want Mega-corpo stores to be able to track and advertise to me based on my payment method. “Club cards” to advertise/track you are a thing. Large chains can do this same thing with payment methods details. So yes, being “real” here, I not only require it, but demand it.

Your premise is bad. And based on your other responses you don’t care to address it at all.

Transcoding…

Since Plex is distributing software that can re-encode video, the codecs that comes with the software must be licensed for many of the codecs.

Here’s an article that covers some of the shenanigans around h264… Now realize there’s at least a dozen others as well that are likely just as screwy. https://jina-liu.medium.com/settle-your-questions-about-h-264-license-cost-once-and-for-all-hopefully-a058c2149256

pay the license costs for the codecs your using…

granted… none of us care about that. but thats what they’re doing. also developement on the software (for good and bad)

yes. windows xp was a fully local OS, and when you installed it, you stilled owned your computer. these things are not true of windows 10.

Yes you can? It’s windows 11 that tries to lock you out, and even then you can install it without internet if you know the magic incantation…

But windows 10 will just install with a local account if you don’t give it internet (unplug ethernet and never setup a wifi).

sure, and I could say you’re a chainsaw juggling pedophile lizard person who came from the future to make sure flavored foams don’t have a resurgence in upscale dining at any cost because the consequences, drawn out 200 years, are so much worse than fascism and several possible extinction events. saying shit is easy. doesn’t make it true.

The fuck? Any linux install will eventually become unsupported. That is my claim to counter your nonsense claim of Windows becoming unusable.

Go take your pills.

okay but windows will at some point become unusable.

Why would windows 10 magically become unusable? It’s not like Microsoft is going to send out a firmware brick at the EoL.

You know that you can still install XP today and get online… With minimal work you can actually get online completely on modern sites.

The same could be said for any linux distro.

The choice is hard because many charities already have a hard time maintaining what they have. To move to linux, they’d need people to know linux. Many volunteers that support this stuff simply don’t and are barely power-users themselves. I spend a good chunk of my day interacting with JUST windows users who have no idea how a computer actually works… they just know how to barely operate windows.

This is not a significant shift with how we are interacting with Google, it is a minor change.

Eh… Most people (Not the tech literate ones) interact with the internet nearly wholly using the Google search bar. To the point where many have NO idea where to put a URL in their phone to actually go straight to a website and often just google the url and click the first link.

For those people, this will be a significant shift.

Way to comment on something from over a year ago. And no nobody lied to me. I read the manifesto that Hamas publicly published.

“both sides should stop the violence and talk it through”

Hard to have a sit-down talk when one side (Palestine) outright says their goal is to kill all Jews and Christians.