The consumer market embraced it despite its shortcomings because it looked nice and was easy to use; the alternatives were not. Yeah, it didn't do that much, but it did more than a flip phone. The alternatives wanted you to use a stylus just to use your phone, and tried to basically recreate the MS Windows UI on a tiny screen; their UI was terrible.

I had a flip phone at the time and it certainly did more than the iPhone, but admittedly harder to use and not as good looking.

We are. Do you think someone dragged the whole country to new location?

Norway, Iceland and Switzerland are also not in the EU. Are they also on a different continent?

UK is European. Membership of EU is unnecessary for that criterion to be met.

The UK is not in the EU, but it is surely european.

I bet EU bureaucrats would love to dictate their redefinition of "European".

The UK is no longer in the EU; The UK is still in Europe and is very much European.

Doesn't have to be a different dimension, international waters or space would do.

All this, and no mention of Sealand [0]? An unrecognized micronation in (formerly) international waters, with a hosting company (back then) that allowed almost everything, and its own coup and counter attack by the "legitimate" royals (and then Germany having to negotiate POW release of the coup organizer).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

Both those places are heavily government controlled.

In fact international waters if you're not flagged and registered to a specific country, then it's open season for anyone to board and seize you.

Which is something the US has demonstrated so clearly recently.

I'm so mad that the bitcoin bro cruise ship never set sail. We missed out on some exciting drama.

Aside from the counterpoints made by the other responders, this still won't work: you need a physical connection to those servers, and you can't just WiFi to servers thousands of kilometers away. So the servers need to be in another dimension, so you can access them without government interference.

That's the whole plan with the space servers. As soon as we sort out a few problems, we're good to go.

Problems: Solar flare & radiation resistance. Heat dissipation. Energy (more effective solar panels, for things as close to sun as we).

Partially solved - getting to orbit. And as much as we hate musk, SpaceX might solve it once Starships start flying commercially.

If we would separate energy part out and beam it somehow, we could sit in a body's shadow in some Lagrange point equivalent for a given body system and greatly reduce heat dissipation requirements and suspectibility to solar flares.

Look at what he does now, you honestly think a person this greedy would ever exercise less than maximum control?

Wait a one minute, who owns those space Servers? The same guy who runs starlink? The one who uses that power to threaten to cut access to those who refuse to do his bidding?

Come on, pull the other one, surely it can’t be that something so useful can be used as a tool for Mafia style politics.

As someone extremely sceptical of musk, I do have some hope that competition between spacex and it's Chinese competitors will make space somewhat accessible to hobbyists.

Hobbyist is another name for consumer, so yes, consumer will have access as long as they pay.

Those that can’t pay or are politically undesirables, will be excluded from the global commons of space.

My take is that the great dream of unifying humanity through the internet won’t be helped by having it run in space.

>The scheme is fairly simple. The criminals rent some land, dump the stuff there, and then have the company go bust, thus leaving the problem to the land owner.

This is what these countries get for having weak laws that allow people to do illegal dumping and then hide behind a corporate veil to avoid accountability.

Trouble is if democracy worked properly then corporate entities wouldn't be able to lobby and influence governments to weaken laws out of self-interest.

Movie characters also don't speak like movie subtitles: the subtitles omit a lot of their speech.

There's a mobile Firefox extension to do the same thing BTW.

I'm going to "third" this advice (though not the Plex part). Jellyfin is fantastic. Yes, you have to be careful which devices you use it on, because the client app isn't available for all smart TVs, but you can get around that by just buying a GoogleTV stick (like the $30 one from Onn) and plugging that into your TV; then you can install the JF app on it through the Play store (or even sideload it if you really want). I did this for my wife's parents, and it works great, and my own parents' Roku TV has the JF app in its store already.

You don't need a "roaming package": just buy an eSIM from one of many online services like AloSIM or Airalo.

>I'm from EU, so ymmw. I simply don't tip.

I guess you've never been to Germany.

Last time I was there (last year), I tried just giving small "trinkgeld" tips (round up to nearest Euro) and the servers were PISSED. I've never seen such rude service.

So why do EU people always say there's no tipping in the EU? This clearly isn't true, at least not any more.

When I traveled in the EU in the 2010s, it wasn't like this at all. WTF is going on over there?

It's kinda hard because the CPU that makes MacBooks so power-efficient is Apple's own design, not from an external vendor. So Lenovo can't use it, nor can anyone else; they'd have to design their own, or partner with Qualcomm maybe. And we just don't see anyone working on ARM-based laptop CPUs right now unfortunately.

It would be nice though.