YouTube videos degrade in quality over time too, as they reencode from one codec du jour to the next.

Heck, even Google drive pulled that stunt where they stopped storing photos in original resolution.

Point being, none of these companies exist primarily to archive your content - they exist to monetise it.

If you want to safeguard your content in original quality, then you need to either put it on a cloud storage that you are PAYING for, or keep it on your own hardware (and with backups)

Proper massive innit

Doctor Evil didn't go to Evil Medical School for six years to be put in the section with no training, thank you very much!

One thing that works is finding ways to make achieving small tasks part of your routine. I have a to-do list and in my lunch break at work I often pick off one or two things and decide okay, that's what I'll do when I get home. And so that way the selecting of the tasks and the doing of the tasks are things that have their own specific times and the decision is already made.

What also works is to create some external motivation.

I might not feel like cleaning the house, for example, but if I have friends coming over then I'll enthusiastically clean everything because I want it to be nice for them.

And so sometimes I intentionally weaponise that by inviting a friend over just to give myself that extrinsic motivation.

Not what you had in mind when you said 'fake', but how about an AI-generated mushroom identification book that landed people in hospital for eating poisonous stuff the book said was safe

Does a male's eye look substantially different?

That's what you get for being indecisive!

Because then your browser would itself have to be a torrent client.

The way torrents download is fundamentally different from how a standard http download works, which is why they have a specialist implementation. Browsers dont want to bother bringing a whole load of new code and associated bugs into the browser to do a job which isn't really connected with the browser's main responsibility, which is browsing the web.

Just because torrents come from the web shouldn't make it the browser's responsibility to deal with them.

Yeah but there's clunky in the way where its big but still a single unit as designed and intended, and clunky when its got some extra growth hanging off the back of it like some technological parasite.

Of course, my advice is only that, and you should choose the approach that works best for you. But advice is why you came here right :)

I have a portable monitor that I'm pretty pleased with.

It has a magnetic cover that goes over the screen to keep it safe, and that same cover folds and goes on the back to act as a stand when it's in use. Power and video are via the same USB-C cable.

Nice and slim and stays in my bag most of the time but when I want a second screen I can whip it out in two secs.

A screen that attaches to the laptop sounds convenient initially, but I feel like in practice it would be a hindrance and make your laptop clunky and bulky.

Never have I felt so emotionally invested in the wellbeing of an anime character as I have for this girl.

I can easily see both sides on this one.

In one way I have little sympathy. It's the same as parents complaining after they show their child a violent anime, that it was a 'cartoon' and so it must be for children - having made that snap judgement without investigating the contents in the slightest.

On the other hand, as the article rightly suggests, there are established conventions in the publishing industry and this book defied them.

They are conventions I personally kinda hate, because they are the reason every Crime paperback looks the same as each other, and every Sci-Fi book is instantly recognisable as that genre on the shelves. But the conventions do exist.

In mass-market publishing terms, sparkly happy cartoon = children.

The publisher and author totally knew what they were doing here and they did it anyway. It's wilfully misleading.

Whether established standards should be enough to absolve a parent of the responsibility to understand what they are giving to their child, though, you decide.

These are gorgeous.

Hugely reminiscent of the fascinating and old-school cutaway drawings you used to get in "how stuff works" books for kids, that I had as a child. Nostalgic!

Hexagons are the bestagons, after all

I hope thats "10" in binary

So, Calyx or Graphene to ensure this AI garbage can be disabled, I suppose.

There's no confusion. People like this just don't think a homeless person deserves anything.

I imagine they take it as an affront, that a homeless man could have the "gall" to take charity from them, while he has a phone "hidden" in his pocket, as if that means he's a con-man, and not really in need at all.

In their mind, if a homeless man owns a phone, then he can't be genuinely destitute. If he was then he should sell that phone to afford his next meal, instead of begging on the street.

Never mind that a phone is probably the single most important tool to in modern life to stay informed and connected, not to mention and entertained and sane.

Never mind that a phone could be the difference between staying homeless for ever, or finding work.

No - if you are homeless then you certainly aren't allowed to own any tools that would help you get out of it.

Oh yeah, of course. The rich have done a very good job of deflecting blame and convincing people the blame lies elsewhere. Excellent marketing and diversionary tactics.

Just wish people would see through that.

I hate that I have to share a country with these people.

The UK that I grew up in was multicultural, and proud of it. And now this.

So much misplaced anger. Yes the economy is fucked, and your life is probably in the shitter, but immigrants aren't the ones to blame for this. Blame the 1%

I couldn't give two hoots about this, but it's probably a good thing for 'normal' people.

My dad for example can never find a file once it's disappeared from the notifications, so he always just goes back and downloads the file again whenever he needs it, duplicating it over and over because he has no idea "where it went"