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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Holy shit: “The company is recommending that customers do a factory reset on the product and find some way of responsibly recycling the hardware.”

    So they’re not offering to dispose of it, or even giving any advice on how to dispose of it responsibly. Just suggesting people should probably do that.

    If companies are allowed to behave this way we’re all screwed. Any efforts by the average person to avert the environmental damage caused by the waste they produce is completely futile and any politician who claims that they’re doing their best to try to hold companies accountable is a liar.





  • For me it was the Simpsons when I was a kid and a relative would record it off satellite TV for me. It just carried on from there. I started recording stuff off TV myself, recording music on audio cassettes and eventually copying VHS tapes.

    Then I got a PSX console and my parents “knew a guy” who burned games.

    After that I heard about Napster and started downloading MP3s on the family PC. When Napster was shut down I moved onto other apps like Kazaa and Limewire.

    Then I got a DVD burner. At first I just copied DVDs but when I got broadband I started downloading torrents and burned the files to DVDs.

    About 10 years ago I started storing those files on a NAS. Planning on moving to Jellyfin in the next few weeks.