Spyke

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WEB 4.69

Isn't the file limit 25MB these days? And yeah, I remember Skype having no limit on that but I also remember it taking an eternity and a half to transfer some of those files.

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Nordic piracy stats

Ok maybe its just me being out of touch with the Finnish scene, but I seriously and I mean SERIOUSLY doubt that 40% of the content pirated here is Finnish content. Could, again, be me just not giving a damn about Finnish shows/movies personally, but I don't even know where I'd go looking for those downloads. But just looking at the sheer amount of content that's available in English and other languages vs Finnish content, they are in essence saying that almost all Finnish shows are pirated then, because otherwise you're not getting anywhere close to 40% of that content being pirated. Unless they think that without piracy ALL of those people would be watching it legally, then maybe you'd get somewhere north of 20%. But even with just Finnish content, the fact is that you'd have to subscribe, I think to at least two (MTV Katsomo+ that is 13€ per month so you don't get ads (which yes, means that there is 7€ paid tier WITH ADS....) and Ruutu+ (that is also 13€ per month, 8€ per month WITH ADS....) and that's on top of, say Netflix. I just don't think that without piracy those 40% would actually pay for those services, just don't see it happening. I think they are way off with their numbers and are delusional in thinking that Finnish content would have such a big draw. I doubt it does.

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It's why it's called the North Pole

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I'm too stupid to figure out the scale between that pole and the earth, so I did this instead:

  • Let us say that we have a standard globe and it has been attached to its stand from the south and north poles, so that you can spin it around on the stand

  • Let us assume that the "pole" attached to the globe is 2cm in diameter and that the scale of the globe is 1:42M

  • With this, it would mean that a 2cm "pole" on a globe would in real life correspond to a pole that is 840 kilometers in diameter.

Needless to say, that pole would be fucking massive either way.

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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

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Some software just literally isn't available for Linux. And lets face it, even Ubuntu requires more tinkering than the average user is prepared to do, or in other words, any tinkering at all because they would have to install it themselves and they do not know how to do that. And the few times I've bothered to use Linux even as my backup, the tinkering never stops. Its not worth the hassle at this point in time.

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What movie did you rewatch most often?

In no particular order besides alphabetical (all movies rewatched over a dozen times):

  • Atomic Blonde
  • Bad Boys 1 and 2
  • Bourne Trilogy
  • Back To The Future trilogy
  • Deja Vu
  • Eraser
  • LOTR trilogy
  • Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of Black Pearl
  • Swat
  • Terminator trilogy
  • True Lies
  • Transformers (the original ones with Shia LaBeouf)

There are many more, but I'm not gonna sit here and try to remember them all.