No upselling.
Bullshit. Within minutes of registering just to look at some stuff I got spammed with all sorts of bullshit via email. Custom one-off throwaway email alias.
Saik0Shinigami
joined 2 years ago
No. I'm telling you that "They paid almost 3 percent" is bullshit. I'm telling you that you're lying. I make no claim for anything else other than you're full of shit. You're making shit up to complain about "orange man" and not looking at what's actually made them pay. Which was Russian aggression.
And no, you can't just take the average when there's a clear pivot point of an event. Someone had to make up the shortfall in the pre-Russian invasion time-frame. That wasn't just free. They were average 1.6% in the 6 years prior to Russian invasion of Ukraine. Well below the benchmark.
But wait! Turns out I copied and pasted the wrong table... I grabbed it from a page down because I was an idiot and scrolled too far!
Here's the real data.. Denmark 1.15 1.11 1.15 1.14 1.28 1.30 1.38 1.30 1.37 2.01 2.37
1.556% as an average... with pre-invasion looking closer to 1.2%
So even now they barely make the benchmark even after Russian invasion (post-invasion averages 1.7%). So not only are you really full of shit, but you're SUPER full of shit. They've never paid anything close to 3%. Let alone actually maintaining their 2%.
Edit: fixed wording to be more clear on post Russian invasion benchmark.
Denmark 0.97 1.09 2.16 1.95 1.49 1.85 1.84 4.08 3.07 2.64 2.29 (2014-2024estimated)
Source: https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pdf/240617-def-exp-2024-en.pdf
Considering that the "old" benchmark was 2%... They didn't even make that number for years. Only stepping up and consistently paying when Russia actually started their invasion. And even then they are rapidly regressing back to the 2% number.
You using crypto to buy your toilet paper is not a mass scale use case and it is irrelevant.
So then you claim that being able to buy stuff isn't a "mass scale" use case...
You realize that's fucking stupid right?
As I said, I can and do buy things regularly (though "rare" comparatively with the normal fiat purchases) with crypto. Other's can do with me as well as the sites that I do it on do it as well. I can prove that by looking at the block chain and seeing the traffic in their wallets.
So "way to go man!" Unless you actually have something more meaningful than "nuh uh". You're kind of full of shit.
Edit: Lack of "big" vendors doing it != not possible at mass scale.
Dell at one point accepted crypto. They stopped because of regulation, not because of technical limitation. And sites like Newegg still accept it.
Over the 15+ years that we’ve had crypto, there have been only two viable uses. All others have failed:
Criminal activity (including brutal stuff like enabling NK/Russia and drug cartels) Financial speculation (in of itself often a malicious activity where the goal is to dump your worthless bags on a mark)
Huh, Weird... Every use I've ever used crypto for doesn't fall into these two categories. So I guess your assumptions and thus everything you based your logic/responses on must be faulty and incorrect.
I use Crypto much like I use my second language/citizenship. Rarely... However, that doesn't mean I don't use it legally. And simply holding onto the crypto != financial speculation. Nobody treats a savings account as "financial speculation".
I've paid for plenty of things from my crypto wallets. Ranging from several to thousands of dollars.
And yes, I would like my payment for toilet paper and bell peppers to be private. Strictly for the fact that I don't want Mega-corpo stores to be able to track and advertise to me based on my payment method. "Club cards" to advertise/track you are a thing. Large chains can do this same thing with payment methods details. So yes, being "real" here, I not only require it, but demand it.
Your premise is bad. And based on your other responses you don't care to address it at all.
Transcoding...
Since Plex is distributing software that can re-encode video, the codecs that comes with the software must be licensed for many of the codecs.
Here's an article that covers some of the shenanigans around h264... Now realize there's at least a dozen others as well that are likely just as screwy. https://jina-liu.medium.com/settle-your-questions-about-h-264-license-cost-once-and-for-all-hopefully-a058c2149256
pay the license costs for the codecs your using...
granted... none of us care about that. but thats what they're doing. also developement on the software (for good and bad)
Sure but claiming that America, a net energy exporter would have cards held over them because of Saudi oil is a bit silly. America wouldn't be as "touched" by this as you both seem to claim.
yes. windows xp was a fully local OS, and when you installed it, you stilled owned your computer. these things are not true of windows 10.
Yes you can? It's windows 11 that tries to lock you out, and even then you can install it without internet if you know the magic incantation...
But windows 10 will just install with a local account if you don't give it internet (unplug ethernet and never setup a wifi).
sure, and I could say you’re a chainsaw juggling pedophile lizard person who came from the future to make sure flavored foams don’t have a resurgence in upscale dining at any cost because the consequences, drawn out 200 years, are so much worse than fascism and several possible extinction events. saying shit is easy. doesn’t make it true.
The fuck? Any linux install will eventually become unsupported. That is my claim to counter your nonsense claim of Windows becoming unusable.
Go take your pills.
okay but windows will at some point become unusable.
Why would windows 10 magically become unusable? It's not like Microsoft is going to send out a firmware brick at the EoL.
You know that you can still install XP today and get online... With minimal work you can actually get online completely on modern sites.
The same could be said for any linux distro.
Flying has required a Real ID-based identification for a little while now. Terry stops have enabled cops to stop and identify as long as a cop has "reasonable suspicion".
There's nothing to wake up before anymore. It's been like this for a while... Long before Orange Man took office with terry stops starting in the 60's, and real id being signed by congress in 2005 (though rollout has been slow).
The "registry rules" is just another thing that people skipping out on their visa's will also violate... So I'm not sure what the point of that would be necessarily. But I don't see why anyone would be up and arms about an attempt to track those who are overstaying the country they're in. It seems reasonable to require a check-in for extended visas. The "best" thing it could do is identify those who intend to skip out a few months earlier which I guess could have some value... at the annoyance of creating check-ins for others.
Crawling would be silly. They can simply setup a lemmy node and subscribe to every other server. Activitypub crawler would be much more efficient as they wouldn't accidentally crawl things that haven't changed, but instead can read the activitypub updates.