Wait? They are unobtainable now? What happened?

Ah yes, proprietary parts also get you.

Is it easy to repair, or also deliberately made difficult?

I don’t know this area well. But I have a strong preference for all port shapes to be the same where possible. Can USB-C shaped heads do the same thing as DisplayPort? If not now, is it possible to make it in the future.

It is all as intended. They didn’t stumble into this.

Believe it or not, there are plans to “overhaul” the Hukou system.

https://thediplomat.com/2024/08/china-unveils-ambitious-5-year-plan-to-overhaul-the-hukou-system/

Recently I think they make it so couples can register their marriage in any jurisdiction. And not have to go to one of the couple’s birth town.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1333785.shtml

I couldn’t fully understand whether or not their children’s Hukou will now be in the location of their marriage registration. But it’s a good step forward and they saw a brief spike in marriage registration overall.

It’s so weird that they’ve been so stubborn about it for so long, even as their cities expand to accommodate migrants and the population growth is slowed.

Nope haha, just their Facebook app on their mobile phones is needed to grab all the data. And once logged in, Facebook will actually track the user’s phone usage and their Internet usage as data without the user knowing. To add to their pile to analyze the user.

This also includes Instagram and Whatsapp. Meta’s other products.

Not participating in any of their products so your data is not their raw resource is good, keep it that way.

Evidently they are still pulling enough users and click through rates to warrant their reputation in advertising. Whether or not some numbers are propped up by bots, who’s to know.

Imagine billions of people depending on their platforms, and most of them will be accessing it through their official mobile apps which generally will be harder to block ads on, and most people will not seek out those methods. It’s the reason they push their official app so much. For some it is a lower priority for them, and some may even enjoy targeted advertising.

There are platforms like YouTube where you can pay to opt out of seeing ads, which is also another revenue stream.

They are paid by advertisers that want to sell you things and ideas. Google and Meta’s job is to keep you on their platform as long as possible so you can be served more advertisements. And to keep you dependent on their free platform to gather more data about what you like and your behavior patterns to easily influence and predict what advertisements grab your interest.

And because they have the data on you to know exactly who you are and what you may like, it’s valuable for advertisers because they know their cat litter advertisement is going to be shown to someone who very obviously has a cat through all their activities and interactions on the platform.

The more time I live on this earth, the more I see so many aspects of it is that “different strokes for different folks” apply to. So much conflict has been started because people wanting to force some ideal/correct/only way of doing things on another.

This is a factual statement. Whether people like how it sounds or not.

It is true, though lacking fail safes of a real democracy is a dangerous game to play in the long term, even if technically positive in an instance. As most autocratic leaders seek to gain continuous and more power. Or their predecessor does.

Iranese? It’s Iranian.

This is a lesson on marketing. “No Kings” rolls off the tongue. Monarchy invokes autocracy/dictatorship, it’s an easy transition into connecting that it’s the opposite of democracy.

“Rulers” kind of include democratically elected ones. “Oligarchs” are too targeted and a big word. And like you said, there are other problems too.

What’s why “Fake News” and “Make America Great Again” worked so well. Simple and stupid, an elementary schooler can read it. And have enough ambiguity that they can be interpreted however the listener wants to.

The organization had tried other slogans for their protests, none brought out more people like “No Kings”. Give people what they want I guess.

Manufacturers did give up on that relatively quick. 3DS was a thing around that time too.

I heard the ReVanced patching stopped working recently. Is that not the case anymore?

What do you think about Qobuz as a musician?

Yeah, I went once and would not revisit. I think it may be a personal preference. I don’t drink, buy timeshares, hire prostitutes or gamble, I’m not the target audience. Also a lot of grungy homeless people on the strip. Food was good though.

No doubt. We are cheaper for sure.

So you have suggestions?