Taking land is the only way to win a war. Outlasting an opponent's ability/will to fight doesn't work at all, right?
Remind me: who controls Afghanistan? You know, that small country that didn't even have a standing army who fought against the most powerful military on the planet for 20 years ... after fighting the Soviets for 10.
Probably a fluke though -- it's not like that's repeatedly happened in wars across history.
I have far fewer fucks to give about the "impact" of my boycotts than I have for my integrity.
I refuse to give my money to fascists if it's at all avoidable. I will inconvenience myself and pay more for alternatives, or forego things completely if I can't make a compelling argument for having them.
I have yet to hear such an argument for a streaming service.
I had a math teacher in highschool that allowed us make a "cheat sheet" during tests -- it had to be hand written on an index card. I discovered that if I actually made a "cheat sheet" I rarely needed to look at it. It's the same for hand-written lists when I'm shopping.
For a lot of people there's something about actually writing information down (by hand) the makes it "stick" better in memory.
I did something insane: I actually read the article.
The students interviewed used pen and paper because they lack the tempting distractions a laptop/tablet/phone has. One states they feel they "use their brain more" when using a pen and paper. They also mention using a computer to write the final version of an essay for submission, but do most of the work on pen and paper first for the aforementioned reasons.
For what content?
Seriously though, quality 4k media is hard to find outside of ... "finding it" on the internet.
It's funny, because that's exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school's firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server -- but these days it wouldn't be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:
"Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a server so my friends and I can play [game] together?"
It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.
My daily driver laptop, home servers, media center, NAS, etc are all Linux.
My gaming computer isn't -- as much as I would like it to be. There are certain things (particularly VR) that don't want to work well in Linux.
They buy them because the "operators" they're cosplaying as use them.
The police and the military use them because guns are loud as fuck and produce muzzle flash -- which are even worse in a poorly lit building. With a suppressor they're not being blinded and can actually hear what's going on.
I drove through miles of a literal swarm of cicadas a few years ago and 99% of them didn't splat on the windshield. My roof rack was coated with bug guts, though.
I had a 9" HP mini 2140-- the keyboard was surprisingly good given its size.
It's just a shame the build quality matched the price and they fell apart in short order.
Has sanitation, pest control, and medicine have advanced since the 13th century?
No ... we still need cats to do all the heavy lifting.