golli

You make a good distinction. In my opinion this question can be answered in two ways:

• A movie that holds up being just as good on a rewatch.

• Movies where you either pick up on clues/details on further rewatches once you know the full movie. Or that are just so dense/layered that you just can’t catch everyrhing the first time you watch it

Doesn’t matter how often you see scenes like ride of the rohirrim, they remain just as epic as they were the first time.

Another issue with YouTube is that media, especially video is vastly more resource demanding than anything mostly text based.

With something like Twitter or Reddit (as long as you don’t directly host all media) the quality and importance of each post relative to it’s resources needed don’t really matter that much.

Especially with high bitrate video footage on the other hand it does matter. So having a drive for profit somewhere in the chain does in someway help shape the system to be viable financially.

Is there any actual benefit for so much RAM in a phone? Outside of a higher number for marketing and increasing the price? And does this also increase power consumption or is there any benefit to more RAM that counteracts that?

Personally i am still waiting for phones to become proper desktop replacements, in which case i’d maybe see more use in this. They already have more than enough performance for the average user, since 9/10 people probably just browse the web and do some general office work.

I really feel like that instead of just focusing on running a lean and efficient site, perfecting the fundamentals, and outsourcing the other stuff to their users (third party apps, content creation, the bulk of moderation). They’ve truly become bloated trying to expand.

I guess this was ultimatively due to them taking on venture capital and thus having the pressure for rapid growth and profitability. They really want to transform themself into a social media site, gathering as much user data as possible and keeping them on their site as long as possible. All with the goal to be able to sell more adds. Which also means pushing out unmarketable content.

Start with a relatively short page turner.

Definitely agree with this advice. Much better to start with something that you can see yourself finishing rather quickly, then starting a huge epic. So maybe something lighter, faster paced and possibly funny. Maybe in the range of 100-150 pages?

Another suggestion i’d make is to start with a book from your favorite genre. Doesn’t have to be based on past books, but maybe also current tv shows or movies.

As an example for me that would be sci-fi. So in that case something like “All Systems Red” (first book in the murderbot series) could be fun. Or maybe a short story collection like “i, robot” or “Stories of Your Life and Others” that allows to read one story at a time. “World war Z” would also be an interesting mix of the two, since it has an overarching narrative but is structured in seperate story lines.

Never seen that here in Germany. Especially considering drinks are usually what the restaurant is making the majority of profit from.

The only place where we do bring something ourself are “Biergärten” (beer gardens) where you can bring your own food, but buy drinks (unsurprisingly mostly beer). Although they also sell some food and often have a section that is more like a normal restaurant where you order both.

Add to that requirements for longer software support. At least for security patches.

Looking at the budget i wonder if actually canning it was ever on the table.

You are right that the tech-savy can extend their longevity through custom ROMs, but that isn’t for the average user. And you shouldn’t have to resort to that to begin with.

The update policy just makes otherwise great phones become obsolete (in some ways) way too fast.

Sony smartphones for example are imo great in many ways (e.g. still retain the headphone jack and sd card slot) outside of being pricey. Yet they only get 2 years of updates (and maybe slightly longer security updates). That’s just not acceptable in any world. Especially when you might not want to buy them at lauch price, since unlike iphones you can get decent discounts on androids for older models.

Also it’s not like most people’s wealth (if they even have any) is liquid either. Most is probably tied up in retirement accounts, real estate, or funds for unforseen circumstances that you wouldn’t touch for ordinary needs.

Elon buying Twitter is really an outlier to begin with, since otherwise there are basically no single expenses that would require that amount of funds to be liquid.

Especially with the mentioned loans, there really is more than enough liquidity available to buy anything you’d ever want.

That has to be the biggest factor by far. I got my pixel 6a for around 300€ total with a mobile plan (free calls, sms and a small amount of data)

Does everything I and realistically the vast majority of people need it for. And you can get perfectly usable phones for even less.

There is no way apple can beat that value, even if their update policy and thus longevity is one of the few things I envy.

Also many benefits of the iphone imo rely on being invested in their ecosystem.