Plot twist: The Moral code was vibe coded!

Adults.

If they’re adding a label you can just use that label to block them with ublock.

Don’t they put plutonium reactors in space? Have to be able to cool those somehow?

The entire point of those is to produce heat to power a thermoelectric generator. And while most of the heat will be wasted, it is a rather small amount overall.

A data centre would require massive amounts of energy, most likely provided by solar panel arrays. Then the processors will convert all the energy to heat that has to go somewhere.

Exactly this.

Also plexamp is a great player and if you give it a couple of GB of file cache it even works offline (for recently played stuff).

Most phones dont have enough storage

And neither does this thing. 8GB is absolutely laughable and then it can’t even handle SD cards above 256 GB? That’s considerably worse than my cheap, 6 year old phone (64GB internal storage, supports up to 512 GB SD cards and has a headphone jack).

This thing would have to be really cheap, like < $50 cheap to be worthwhile.

<insert groundskeeper willy meme>

Yeah, and that is a very recent one from a not-that-well know company. Go figure!

Yeah, but that’s not how most people use Smart TVs. Also, they’re still coming for you, next up they’ll try to insert ads via HDMI. and good luck finding a Smart TV with display port.

This. There is a reason why dumb displays of a similar size are much more expensive. Because the manufacturer can’t feed you ads and sell your data …

for everyone on Earth

The people that are doing the actual space exploration aren’t even effected by it!

Yes, please! I hate that shitty bloatware so much.

At least that is still around for me (macOS desktop)

I still have 200+ days on my plan, but cancelled it for now. Not because of any major concerns, it’s good enough for what I need it for.

But they just making the app worse. There used to be like a map where you could select servers, they removed it. You used to have a “pause” and a “disconnect” next to each other. Now the “disconnect” is the last option behind the “pause” menu. Why?

I hate enshittification and that’s just that.

Will probably switch to mullvad after it expires.

Even if you’re at home and do have a CD player it’s just not practical. Sure, if you only listen to a handful of CDs that’s workable.

But my current music collection would require 1400+ CDs … and good luck finding a specific song in that pile, even if you do know the exact album it’s on. It’s so much better to just have a searchable library.

You can still keep the CDs around for archive purposes, but to me CDs are no longer a viable option for actual media playback.

Which slot? Where?

The one shaped like the thing …

Format a drive? What’s that?

Depending on your setup it will even promt you do do this, all you have to do is click a couple of dialogs. Or lookup like a 5 step guide on the internet.

Your assuming a tech literacy that simply doesnt exisit in the general populace.

I think I’m making a very reasonable assumption about tech literacy here … yours might just be below the general populace.

Even if you don’t use a USB one, you basically just put the thing in the slot and start up the machine, maybe it needs some formatting. It’s not brain surgery. Again, it still easily beats dealing with unmanageable number of CDs.

Everyone old enough knows how to handle a CD.

Actually, more and more people are too young to know how to handle CDs these days.

I don’t consider HDDs physical media per se.

Ok. But I can touch mine … they seem very physical.

No one is handing down hard drives or selling them at yard sales

Because it’s easier to just copy the data to someone else’s drive, no need to physically hand it over. Also you can still keep the CDs after copying them to another medium.

Because its information overload

That seems more like a personal problem than a technical one.

It has no resale value. And if that HDD dies or you die and your family doesn’t know how to use it or how to decrypt it, its useless.

Have you looked at HDD prices recently? You can definitely resell them. The ones I bought 3 years ago now cost double the price! And all data should be backup anyway so you don’t lose anything on a disc failure. And the last point can be addressed by either just not encrypting your drive or leave the proper instructions behind.

All in all those are minor inconveniences compared to dealing with thousand of CDs.

A decent music library would require thousands of CDs, it would be a huge hassle. Why deal with that when you can just copy all of that to one hard drive?