That’s kinda what I meant, it good but also makes it from the bots perspective and that is the tell. Like it is telling on itself, which is what makes it funny to me.

Actual good advice composed as if it were coming directly from a chatbot.

That’s some masterful white hat trolling right there.

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Copenhagen is a rad town, I’d recommend visiting if you have time before you have to accept/decline the offer.

Out of all the Scandinavian countries it is the one I would prefer to live in above the others. It shares a land border with Germany, so Central Europe is easily accessible and if you are in Copenhagen then Sweden is just a drive across a very long bridge. Due to this I’d say Denmark is the more culturally open and mixed than the other Scandinavian countries.

Got ya, no worries!

I can get into one of those rhetorical “you” soliloquies as well from time to time when incensed about an issue. I completely understand and I’m glad we are fighting the same fight.

Yo, I think you are attacking the wrong person here.

I don’t know where you read into what I said and got off track because I am not the strawman you seem to be painting me as…?

I am totally on the side of the refugees in these scenarios, I never said otherwise. The subtext of what I was saying was it is a good thing for any culture to be open to outside influence and the Scandinavian countries have been isolated culturally more so than many other areas of the world. Honestly, one of my favorite pastimes while living in Sweden was calling out the Swedes for the racist bullshit, and very specifically around this exact topic.

They opened their borders for refugees because they had space, stability and wealth to share with those in need. That does say a lot about their culture and wanting to help others but the system shock it caused created backlash that has yet be be resolved. You can’t treat some citizens one way and another set of citizen another. I did not say the social safety net shouldn’t be provided for them as I believe they should have every right as equals in their new country. I honestly wish my opinion on the matter could be used to stop this schism on the opposite side of the world to where I currently live but I don’t have that ability. Racists are gonna racist and as much as I hate that I am powerless to stop it worldwide.

I grew up around many cultures; many of my friends parents were first gen immigrants and didn’t speak the native language but they tried. I don’t fault them one bit for not learning it, languages are hard. I’ve learned 4 as an adult, none have been easy but my interest in foreign languages started when learning foreign words/phrases around the dinner table at my friends houses growing up.

Oddly Swedish was the most difficult but not for the usual reasons. I tried to speak it but Swedish people would inevitably hear my terrible accent and then just assume I know English and respond that way. Hard to practice when everyone under the age of 60 speaks fluent English and want to show it off. But that is Swedish pride for you, I can’t dismiss that maybe they opened their borders to refugees with the assumption their life was so much better than what the refugees were used to that they would of course want to assimilate to Swedish culture. Which kind of is the basis for the whole problem, they didn’t expect the refugees to have a different opinion and made no space for them to do so. Which is also why they need to assimilate towards each other, not only in one direction, and that takes a few generations worth of time.

It kinda feels like you parroted what I said back to me but… angrily? It feels like you’re working something out that doesn’t really have anything to do with me. It’s ok though, I think we are both on the same page.

Hey friend, how dare you besmirch my grille speakers!

I use them all the time at the drive-in theater to broadcast the radio channel with the movie audio so everyone not in their car can hear the movie.

People seem to be thankful… but should I be worried to the point I ruminate late into the night for the next few weeks, and then once every few months for the rest of my life, about how I may have angered someone while trying to help others at the drive-in? /jk

But seriously, I can see the point for certain car culture type meet ups, I didn’t want them in my car, only discovered them after I bought it. Was at the drive-in, it was a nice night, was sitting outside of the car but couldn’t hear the movie, thought if those speakers and they have come in very handy ever since in this, and only this, setting.

I lived in Sweden for a bit and have travelled through most of Scandinavia over the years, what that person is saying is true. Saw it first hand and it had only gotten more of any issue in the last 20 years.

99% homogenous culture with 99% literacy rate with a big social safety net and high taxes to pay for all the high quality of living. Then you take in refugees over and over again in the past 30 years. The refugees are being put into the same neighborhoods, they form communities since they are all suffering the trauma of displacement together. The communities want access to the huge social safety net but not have to pay taxes or assimilate/learn the native language. Both sides feels abused by the other and the problem just gets bigger and bigger over time.

It makes sense and every Scandinavian country has been dealing with it for a while now; it is a huge struggle for them. It is a challenging hurdle that none of them have been able to figure out how to resolve it.

Take Sweden for example, you have 9mil people living in a country about the size of California. Lots of room, resources and stability. Then 200k refugees need a place to call home. They have pride for their homeland and don’t want to forget it. The Swedes have just fundamentally altered the foundation of their society in a statistically significant way by bringing a very different cultural heritage, background, traditions and people it a mostly unchanged political system based on hundreds of years of tradition. There is a lot that both sides have to adapt to as it is a new paradigm for each to accept.

That’s a tough nut to crack and historically speaking one that is usually solved over a few generations as tensions calm and the two cultures mix. The ones who grew up with the two cultures always being present are usually the ones who resolve it once they are decision makers. Or it is constant tension until violence erupts and everyone always hates each other from then on. Flip a coin but I have my fingers crossed that Scandinavia figures it out. It is a beautiful part of the world that could use a bit of outside influence to spice up their geometric architecture and people.

PS I can’t remember the population of Sweden off the top of my head so I just guesstimated. No idea on # of refugees, just picked that one out of a hat to illustrate a point. 200k could be about right, could be lower or could be higher. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

I feel this.

Ex-Christian here (Assembly of God Protestant) and I’ve been an atheist for a couple decades. My grandparents (both sets) were Christian but my parents never forced me into religion. I found it myself as a teen and my parents supported my interests even though they weren’t particularly religious. My Dad was more atheist in his last decade or so but my Mom was never really able to escape her whole religious upbringing even though she never practiced it.

My friend’s parents though… my small and rural hometown was predominately Christian. I left for 20 years, lived on three other continents in various countries and then moved back home for family reasons. It was hard to just be out and open about being an atheist in this community. Lots of defending my beliefs against simplistic religious indoctrination, ie “how can you have a moral compass without god guiding you?” or “if you don’t follow the 10 commandments how can you be a good person?” but it is worth it all in the end to just be yourself. It has gotten easier as I get older and I have found the more I talk about it the more likeminded people tend to come out of the woodwork to talk about their atheism. I’ve been surprised how many there are nowadays in what used to be a backwoods cowboy town.

I get it though, both my parents have died within the past 5 years, my grandparents have been gone for longer. Some of my friend’s parents have passed as well. Some I regret not telling or being able to talk about it with them and some I intentionally hid that aspect of me from them, not for my sake, but for theirs. I loved my grandparents and they didn’t need that drama so I held onto it for them. And that is ok, that compromise for other’s sake is a part of being a family.

Maybe someday you will be the patriarch/matriarch of your family and I hope for you that you project to your kids and potential grandkids that they are able to be whomever they want to be (within reason, let’s not promote serial-killing or other objectively horrible career paths) and that a belief system is not a prerequisite for being loved and accepted without judgement.

I hated it too but you’ll get your day once the sun sets for them. My advice, even though you didn’t ask for it, is enjoy whatever sunlight is left, in whichever way you can, for however much is left of their day because the sun will set for them eventually. You will never get back the sunlight they bring once it gone. For both your sakes, try to look past the clouds and recognize that sunlight while you still have it.

Ok, if you find any info on that please post it. I’m going to be on the look out for it and do the same if I find it.

I’ve had a plex pass since before 2023 so this doesn’t affect me either way.

But 2023 doesn’t sound right for when the grandfathering ended. I do not doubt that there is an end date for grandfathering but for that to have happened in 2023 sounds punitive towards their users and not a good long term strategy.

Sure, enshittification and all that. I don’t doubt greed is the motive but they had to have known by ending grandfathering 2 years before implementing a policy like this would stir a user revolt and strengthen their competition. Especially with all the increased enshittification they have pushed out over those 2 years.

When did/does the grandfathering period end?

I hadn’t heard that aspect of it before and would like to know more.

Thank you for the info!

I believe if the server hosting the content has a plex pass then end users are allowed to stream from it without any additional subscription or membership. At least that is how it was several months ago when they announced this.

But you are right, even with the above being true, there will still be a non-insignificant portion of users paying to stream from servers.

You’re funny.

You pose no threat because your position is transparent. Your argument here relies on saying what isn’t ok for you without stating your what you would prefer instead which leaves you open to moving the goalposts to wherever you want them to be.

You don’t have a position in this discussion beyond Apple bad for “reasons” and puffing out your chest. It is all air, smoke and mirrors. You ask questions as your argument and when they are answered you redefine what the entire discussion is about. This is an argumentative method used by children.

Do better, because I am smarter than you; I can see that any discussion with you is a waste of time.

I guess you have your own definition of arbitrary because 7 years for in house support of their hardware isn’t decided on a whim or by chance but seems well reasoned.

But I can see by your shelf life comment that you have no intention of actually discussing anything and are just trolling so, goodbye!

Apple seems to do this with most of their new product lines when introduced.

The AppleWatch started being geared towards a health device around revision 3 or 4.

The iPhone was a camera/iPod/Phone multi device by the iPhone 4.

AppleTV was gathering market share in the tv device field for several years before Apple introduced their own streaming platform.

It took the iPad a few iterations before it settled into having drawing/art/media capabilities.

The Vision Pro is a dev kit of sorts as Apple measures an emerging market of hardware and user preferences while they figure out what Apple customers would really want out of such a device. No one is forcing anyone to buy a $3500 Vision Pro; some buyers were disappointed that the headset wasn’t as polished as they what they expect from Apple and some knew what they were buying.

I own two Vision Pros for business and personal use. I have had many VR headsets over the years, the tech has gotten much better over time. I was interested in seeing what Apple could do in the space. The hardware was slick but visionOS 1.0 was spartan and lacking. It has been fun to see how much better the software has become in each iteration. Nowadays I use my Vision Pro for at least an hour or two each day. It is incredibly useful in my daily routines.

The initial news cycles about it were negative and it is easy to see how and why, people projected onto it what they wanted it to be. The naysayers thought it was too expensive, and for them it was, the Apple zealots wanted it to be everything and more, they were disappointed, and the influencers wanted a drama. I think it was all of those things but I don’t think the product ever really flopped. There are plenty of people who own them and use them all the time. I am happy with my purchase and I don’t plan on upgrading to the latest version because the ones I have are fine.

I am interested to see where Apple takes this tech.

If we are being fair, Apple doesn’t arbitrarily decide when something becomes obsolete, it is at 7 years for them when they retire hardware from support, that covers software as well.

Also, MacBook Pros have a longer shelf life on average than PC counterparts, unless it is corporate not many Mac users are upgrading their hardware every year. I believe the average is every 3-5 years but I know people who are still using 10+ year old MacBook Airs as their daily driver for personal use.

Such a great time-travel movie. One of my favorites too!

Looks like a regular caterpillar orgy to me.

Pushing Tin?

Tin Cup was the golf movie with Kevin Costner, right?