At the same time, “similar works” are protected and allowed as legal. For instance the 5000 spaghetti westerns that exist, or the entire formula for 80’s slasher films. Or Ants and A Bugs Life, or Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, or Deep Impact and Armageddon.

So there has to be some sort of line somewhere that’s a cut-off, but it might be hard to find. Musk wanted to use blade runner and was told to fuck off, so he made up his own dystopian Sci fi future scene. He most certainly aimed for the blade runner look, but was it illegal?

Don’t worry, OP. Samsung makes absolute dog shit appliances, so you’ll be replacing that dishwasher sometime in the next 2 years anyways.

We live in an oligarchy. As long as plastic is cheaper and gets sales, it will keep being used unless a law bans it. I lived in a time when soda was canned or in glass bottles. The stuff tasted better bottled in glass. Plastic was lighter and cheaper, so it got switched.

Some stuff can’t really be made very well without plastic. It can vastly be cut down, for certain. But it isn’t yet realistic to eliminate yet. We need replacement materials and ways to eliminate what is already here.

“Sure”.

But I wanna tell people my master password to my pw manager. It’s such a fantastic password that no one could ever possibly guess I would have. I wanna gloat.

Ya win some, ya lose some. No businessman has every deal go their way.

Next do chromium

I have no idea. Plus, with a brand new company, you can’t even be sure they’ll be around in a few years to follow through with any such promises.

I tend to just care about security updates at this point. There isn’t any new features I want, anymore. I’m either using it as a phone, sending messages, or in an apk. The OS version is of little consequence.

They’d like for you to pay them like $10, but it isn’t mandated. Louis Rossmann is involved with it. The right to repair guy that’s always fixing Apple stuff and trying to get bills passed.

Yeah. Because youtube pays them for ads. If they didn’t, it would all be sponsorships, donations, and merch.

I hit a back button, open the video back up, and click resume. It’s an inconvenience, but not really that terrible.

Try Grayjay. It’s worked issue free for months. It’s only bug I’ve noticed is with resuming a video after you pause it and leave the apk.

Have you tried using Grayjay?

The only issues it gives me is having to back out of the video and go back in if I stop a video part way into it and screen off my phone, then want to go back to watching again, and that the turn phone to go full screen and turn back the other way to exit full screen responds too danged quickly.

Production quality will drop, sure. But how youtube spent years in the beginning was from just people wanting to help, people wanting to share stuff, and people wanting some attention, and there’s still massive amounts of those people making videos. A lot more than the people just after hoping to get paid. Then, of course, even most of the people getting paid would do just fine. They’d just operate like Gamers Nexus and actually speak their ads and sell some merchandise. “This video is brought to you by …”

Platform paying you or not, there’s still a lot of money to be made if you get popular.

They all do, here. The6 blow them when coming up to road crossings to give warning that you better not be on the tracks.

I’d imagine it will be forced into having a pilot and a co-pilot on board. Between not trusting autonomous to be foolproof and imagining that the ALPA union probably demanding it, I can’t imagine they have a choice.

Besides, you think the glider with 10 tons of cargo is going to do well I’m something bad happens to the lead plane? If need be, you’d want a human in that glider to emergency disconnect the tow rope and go land it off in a field or something. It should be able to glide for a very long time. Long enough to talk with ground and set up a good LZ and get emergency services prepped.

Because they’re required to.

It will be cat and mouse, but I would imagine for the time being, disconnecting the cell antenna on the board would stop it. Who knows what kind of, if any bullshit extra errors and codes that will keep popped up but I’m guessing if it became a popular thing, they would start making cars that will create bullshit errors and codes. I wouldn’t do anything permanent until the warranty period is over.