Same. I already have two lifetime memberships with other companies, and they work just fine. No regrets.

I took a similar risk with Bean (a Lemmy app for iOS). It was all good for the lifetime of the company. Turns out, it wasn’t very long.

A friend of mine made an online store and he started selling e-waste ahem… various affordable electronics. He wanted me to test a Chinese tablet, and I said yes. This was back in the day when Android Honeycomb was a thing and iPad 2 was a reasonable option, so even the best tablets weren’t that great.

I got the tablet, charged the battery, booted it up, and it was just barely ok. It worked, but it was really slow. I mean, like slower than my first Android phone. This was not even last gen hardware. It was clear that some all corners were cut. The storage, CPU, RAM, bandwidth etc. Every component was the slowest one available.

Anyway, the testing went slowly, as you would expect. It ran out of battery very quickly, because of course it did. Why put large cells or even mediocre quality cells in a cash grab like this. So, I charged it up and continued testing later until it ran out of battery again. Rinse and repeat.

After a few days of testing, It just didn’t boot up any more. Apparently some of those cheap components just couldn’t take the heat that comes with using a battery powered device. Rust in pieces! I hope this abomination gets ground to shreads and drowned in sulfuric acid.

I returned the tablet to my friend and I never heard from it again.

I prefer to eat two meals a day. It feels like a sustainable lifestyle instead of just a temporary fix. Normally, I have only breakfast and lunch. If I deviate from that by having something in the afternoon, my weight begins to increase gradually.

My guess: First corporate war and the formation of NUSA that maintains a little bit of control over some parts of the country. The rest will be effectively owned and controlled by various corporations that act more like kingdoms.

When USA isn’t a superpower any more, they can’t project their power on the other side of the world either. In recent decades, they got involved with a bunch of different conflicts around the world, and influenced global geopolitics. I guess those days are permanently behind us now.

Now, it’s up to Russia, China and India to figure out what they want to do with that power vacuum.

In Nemesis (comic books) there was a moment when the racist fanatics ran out of groups to persecute, so they just came up with a new target: people with freckles.

Someone would invent conductive and grounded beans. Maybe aluminum foam could be used?

You don’t say…

Wow, that really is listed as an element. I’m learning so much!

Voom sounds like a fun place to visit.

Because 99% is still less than “all of Europe”, so…

I think I’m already seeing signs of pre-war polarization.

USA is pushing certain countries away, and they will naturally form new relationships. Maybe in the future we’ll have USA and Russia as one of the rogue states in the axis of oppression. EU will obviously see themselves as one of the good guys who bring democracy and peace to the world.

However, having a civil war in USA looks highly likely as well. Have you considered pulling off a coup d’état yet?

Only as many as I need for grouping my subscribed communities neatly. As there are no “multireddits” on Lemmy, your subscribed feed will be dominated by the popular communities, while all the small ones will be buried and forgotten. In order to solve that issue, I need a few accounts. If Lemmy grows, my need for accounts also grows. Maybe one day I’ll b have ten accounts.

Hasn’t Apple seriously considered the ad business in the past? I think I saw a video about it years ago. Most likely, they will switch their strategy as soon as it makes financial sense to do so.

Nah, the idea is that you apply by starting with something small, like mugging. You study with the best for a few semesters, do your time, and get released early. When you graduate, you’re ready to start your assassination business.

It’s the university for criminals. How do you expect anyone to pull off a an elaborate bank heist, or build a drug cartel. You need experienced professional criminals for that.

Before long, demonstrations will probably be outlawed, and anyone trying to voice their concerns will be treated like a terrorist. Once that happens, there’s no going back.

That’s a good point. A human author would be influenced by life in general, not just the books.

I’ve been thinking about that as well. If an author has bought 500 books, and read them, it’s obviously going to influence the books they write in the future. There’s nothing illegal about that. Then again, they did pay for the books, so I guess that makes it fine.

What if they got the books from a library? Well, they probably also paid taxes, so that makes it ok.

What if they pirated those books? In that case, the pirating part is problematic, but I don’t think anyone will sue the author for copying the style of LOTR in their own works.