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For our generation, sure, but there’s an entire generation of internet users that have never known a world without streaming services, and never got in to physical media, archived media, or piracy. A lot of them grew up with mobile devices only and hardly ever used desktop or laptop computers.

I was talking to some of my younger coworkers about music the other day. I mentioned something about the hundreds of gigabytes of music, all in FLAC, ALAC, and high quality mp3, and the question I got was “why? Why not just use spotify/Apple Music?” Well what happens when music from your favorite artist gets taken down because it wasn’t profitable? What happens when your favorite show gets cancelled and pulled because it wasn’t profitable?

So much data would have been flat out gone without piracy.

Lol. Carrot is always on point.

I’d love to see this too! Maybe something implemented in the sharing menu that allows you to copy a direct link to the media or download it.

This is just another avenue for corporate control of the country. Look at the cases:

• A predatory industry (payday loans) that wants to be unregulated
• A commercial fishing company that doesn’t want to pay their fair share for conservation

And previously:

• The coal industry (indirectly through the bought and paid for government of West Virginia) wanting to keep coal power plants from being regulated

This gutting of federal regulations is going to set us back years.

As always, the problem is ~advertising~ capitalism.

Yeah, most established forums with active user bases have been around for a loooooong time. One of the reasons people are still active on them is because they haven’t made significant changes.

There’s no drama like changes to forum drama.

Yeah, most established forums with active user bases have been around for a loooooong time. One of the reasons people are still active on them is because they haven’t made significant changes.

There’s no drama like changes to forum drama.

This is a pretty good article. I think the author dances around it a bit but gets it: it’s all about investors wanting infinite growth.

Think about it this way- if ad-supported social media isn’t profitable (which seems to be the case) and constantly requires VC cash to stay afloat, really the customers of the product are the investors. The cult of “line go up” demands that engagement be constantly increasing, which means that it’s effectively impossible nowadays to have a social media site focused on creating a vibrant active community. Community equals steady traffic and engagement once it hits its stable point. That’s just not good enough.

It really explains why every site is trying their hardest to become TikTok- short, relatively cheap to host video clips that press the dopamine button and get users addicted to the service. Add an endless feed to keep users hooked, and you have a recipe for maximum engagement. It’s the best bang for the Buck from an investor perspective.

It’s the classic “Eternal September”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Definitely don’t use JB weld, and I think you should be able to do it without replacing the box.

Regular electrical boxes are usually 6-32 size screws, ceiling fan boxes usually 8-32. If the holes are stripped, especially with plastic boxes, a lot of times you can get away with using the next size up (either 8-32 or 10-32) and forcibly screwing them in. They will cut new threads in the soft plastic/metal of the box, and you’ll be good to go. This is how most electricians would handle it without replacing the box.

If you want to do a cleaner, less hacky job, you can get a set of drill-taps, like this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Drill-Tap-Tool-Set-4-Piece-32383SEN/304401087

Or the hand tool: https://a.co/d/6fr9d4Z

You can usually find them in the electrical section of your big-box home improvement store of choice. Just use the next size up and get some appropriate screws.

Agreed. But Reddit, along with most of the internet, was like that in the early days too. In the days pre-Digg migration, I feel like Reddit was down more than up. After the migration though, there was enough critical mass to encourage bug fixing and improvement.

I’m sure there will be growing pains though no matter the outcome.

This has been a “thing” for a while now. Here’s a Hackaday article on it from 2018:

https://hackaday.com/2018/07/02/using-an-ai-and-wifi-to-see-through-walls/