Why not purchase the discs and copy them yourself? At least artists can get paid that way.
I haven’t bought a lot of DVDs lately, but the ones I have all were from used DVD stores. I think the artists were paid once.
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Did they learn nothing from giving everyone a free U2 album that nobody wanted, and the backlash from that?
It was such a long time ago that the people who made the mistake have already retired, maybe.
>I got into knitting a few years after the pandemic.
So very recently?
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This idea immediately reminded me of “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree
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A friend worked on something similar for historic maps of Japan
Since I had some trouble getting my credit card accepted at the apple store I always order my apple products by phone and pay with cash on delivery. When the delivery person comes with the box and leaves with the cash it feels good.
Does anyone know if there is something similar to this open source?
WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects
There was a more or less visible campaign against Chinese made radios recently in Japan (mostly due to transmitting without a license and also the fact that the transmission itself caused a lot of noise in a wide spectrum. I’m not a ham but I’m interested in radios, so my terminology and what I understood about the “offending” transceivers might not be accurate)
The popular Baofeng UV-5R (or a close model/clone) is available at Amazon and Rakuten, but I got cold feet about buying one of the noisy units and be visited by the Radio G Men.
The price of Japanese made units is 5 times more, but on the review sites I consulted, they all agree the quality is worth the price (I looked for Yaesu units).
Related: Japanese news segment about illegal transceivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNGSJFSMvlA
In case you are interested in a wrapper for WebKit instead of for Chromium, but one that lets you use your favorite Chrome and Firefox extensions:
Orion Browser by Kagi: Very fast. Zero telemetry.
Lightweight, natively built with WebKit, made for you and your Mac. Industry-leading battery life, privacy respecting by design and native support for web extensions.
Orion supports Firefox and Chrome browser extensions natively. Whether you prefer getting them from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-Ons... as well as bringing support for as many as we can to iOS…
I tried Orion a while ago: in that version background tabs with YouTube on pause made the bottom of my m1 air get very hot. I really liked that it supported chrome extensions but battery life was not great. I’ll give it another go now that I’ve been using arc for some time.
I live in a country where annual checkups are mandatory (companies are fined by the government a lot of money for each employee who does not get it done). I've been told a couple times now that something is a bit off, not too concerning by itself, but it requires more tests to rule out suspects from a list. had a lot of blood tests done, nothing unusual came up, still being regularly told to keep doing tests in between checkups. I can say perhaps one of the upsides is I get nudged by the doctors to keep a healthy lifestyle.