Legislation is always years behind tech.

I did exactly this to get a Samsung tablet for a Christmas gift. Can’t trust Amazon for some products now.

Just providing some extra info, not refuting anything in the article…

Costco UK has been scanning cards for months, we don’t have self checkout, though.

Aaaaand this is why I didn’t move my podcasts to Google Podcasts.

You’ve heard of weather? Or doing things other than babysitting a hit smoking pit for 16 hours?

There’s many, many good reasons to live in the EU, fam.

Where consumers and employees have rights.

I’ve never heard of Syncthing, I use Keepass on Windows and my Android, syncing to Dropbox. If I change to Syncthing is it an easy swap, anything I should watch out for?

I do the same, but synced to Dropbox from computers and phone.

I have the Proton password manager as well but not sure yet if I’ll do a full swap over.

I get a lot of value out of Netflix, I watch tons of their shows every month.

I use Prime quite a bit also obviously for Amazon shopping and try to watch Prime Video a few times each month, and now they’ve expanded the music I’ll try that too.

I will be canceling Disney and just pirate what I want to see, which isn’t much, literally just one show.

E: I canceled Spotify ages ago and use their free version but for my favorite bands I downloaded their MP3 discographies. I buy their music on CD because it pays them better than streaming their songs thousands of times, plus I buy merch and go to the concerts so I’m OK with that.

E2: someone mentioned Patreon, I cancelled most of those as well because my gaming group broke up and all my patreons are for gaming 3D files. I have years worth of stuff to print and will never reach the end.

That is the “monkey mind” that meditating can help calm.

Definitely don’t count your books and multiply by 30 or so…

Upvoted for saying the phrase “as cool as the other side of the pillow”. Heard that once when someone was talking about a sports commentator and haven’t forgotten it in probably 35 years at least.