Also market share != number of users. The number of internet users worldwide in 2009 was about 1.7 billion, this year it is passing 5.5 billion, many of them with multiple devices.

Do optical disks degrade if protected from the elements? A stack of Blu-ray disks could store quite a bit.

Online PUA culture really.

I don’t love the difficulty of extremely fast individual identification but there is something to be said for the ease of extremely fast collective identification, it makes it very easy to see which group of apps each app belongs to, which is also valuable.

The problem with furries from that perspective is that they are in fact, still people, and people are terrible.

I was hoping I’d see nighthawkinlight in the wild here.

Zigbee has already done that for a long time and most of those smart bulbs could already be used with various bridges or zigbee controllers.

I mean, that’s great, I like self hosting and running my own basic household server and the like. But are you seriously suggesting that’s anywhere close to being accessible to most people?

Nobody I know of is stopping you from doing that. Zigbee is pretty ubiquitous, Hue can be controlled offline and by third party bridges and can just link directly into a zigbee controller if you want. Most people don’t want to bother setting that up.

You can use most of them without being connected to the internet, just can’t control from your phone without being hooked up to your home network.

N-Gage 2 confirmed

If you want a lightbulb that changes colors to be controlled by a phone or network accessible device, as opposed to some other sort of special RF remote, and you DONT want random other people to be able to control or possibly disable or damage your lights, then it kinda needs to have an account.

By all means, avoid iot stuff if it’s not your thing, but then why are you looking at color changing lightbulbs? The ones that need special remotes are terrible gimmicks and the ones that get wired into a hardwired home automation system cost a fortune to set up and require a ton of installation.

File size is a major limiting factor in high speed video and to a lesser extent convenient ultra HD digital film. At 3840x2160 (basic 4k) uncompressed 10-bit video 1 frame is about 250 MB. An hour of footage at 30 fps then is about half a terabyte. At “only” 1000 fps you would burn through an 8 TB SD card in… 32 seconds.

Pretty sure most homemade consumer computers are installing Windows. 70/30 tops.

(Maybe up to 50/50 if you don’t count professionally built custom PCs)

Yeah, it’s just called bombing, one way or another you’ll get your antidepressants paid for.

That’s where you’re wrong though, it’s a statement a lot of really weird people give a massive shit about.

Ah yes, my country also has serious problems and therefore it is not only relevant but equivalent.

K, Imma just keep using Firefox anyways.

The whole album Ashes of the Wake also about half of Rise Against’s discography.

Oh, also can’t believe I forgot, obviously American Idiot and Holiday by Green Day

The legal framework known as “we all had to see it so you have to too”