You don’t need bandwidth to switch streaming services and import your old playlists though. For example a streaming service like Tidal tags all AI music and does not monetize AI generated music.

And if you weant the music straight on your phone, something like Opus 128 kbps is already considered high quality (we have come a long way since mp3). Let’s say your cousin has 20 000 songs. That’s about 60 GB in that form, which fits on most mid grade/flagship phones.

It’s not super hard to leave Spotify if you are willing to invest some effort.

Use Exportify (free service) to download his playlists from Spotify as csv files. Or use something like Soundizz (paid) to directly convert between platforms.

You can parse the csv files and use something like Soulseek to create an offline library. Compress to aac or opus so you can take thousands of songs with you on your phone, or use your own casting service on a raspberry pi.

I love my Wii, it’s always immediately ready, has good haptics and some of the games are just awesome.

Try Qwant

ZIP encryption can be pretty strong, as long as you use aes-256 and not zipcrypt. AES256 had been supported for ZIP files since 2003, just not in the built-in Windows zip handling.

I modified my 2600 to have composite output instead. It also slightly improves the video quality

Nice, still in use? Show the front too, these are pretty looking receivers.

Those are modern! My audio equipment used DIN plugs. And the tv only had an antenna input.

However for countries that adopt dd-mm-yyyy, it’s also completely natural to say it out loud in that way (20 April 2026). So by that reasoning we will never end up with a universally accepted date format.

The Spanish would write Ago

The French would write Août

The Greek would write Αυγ

Arabic speaking would write أغسطس

Using words doesn’t seem as universal as numbers.

Epoch is signed though, that 1970 date is the midpoint

Massive attack is awesome, such a great experience to see their show. Much better than you would expect from a 35+ year old band.

I understand that Americans suffer under this and that many people are actually against tariffs. We don’t have to disagree there.

However this article is just about the Sony PlayStation. No one forces people to buy a PlayStation. And Sony, a Japanese company, is also not affiliated with the US government.

We are talking about legislative texts. These are the kind of texts that are interpreted in court. They don’t specify details because they need to be universally applicable.

Let’s interpret it like most would. A $50 replacement battery for a smartphone costing hundreds of dollars to replace does not deter repair and therefore is probably in line with the directive. A $50 dollar replacement battery for a $40 dumbphone does deter repair and such a scheme would therefore be illegal.

The prices went up, and customers accepted that price. Bargaining after the deal is made generally doesn’t give you a strong position.

The American definition of a voting majority is not relevant here. What matters is that Americans put Trump in place, knowing he would impose tariffs, making foreign products more expensive. Just because millions didn’t vote for him, doesn’t exclude them from the consequences.

Also, the browser engine needs to be maintained anyhow. Moving to something like Waterfox or Librewolf doesn’t change the necessity to support Mozilla.

Let me play the devil’s advocate.

The question is, how do you legally know that they passed all that cost on to the customers? After all, customers did not pay the import fees directly. It will be a hard case to make.

Also, a majority of Americans voted to introduce tariffs. It was a big part of Trump’s campaign from the start. The reason Sony received this money in the first place was because of errors made by the American government, making the tariffs illegal. It was the US government that is responsible for this money, not Sony.

Absolutely not enough. The EU should increase the legal warranty period instead. Standard warranty should go from 2 years to 4 years. That will increase warranty cost for manufacturers, forcing them to make higher quality products.

Long, but not longest. Fairphone is longer.

According to the directive, software may not be used to block lawful repairs. But yes, they don’t have to give away their intellectual property either.