Yeah the '90s was the big heyday for the music industry when they used to charge us $25 (in 1990s dollars, $48 today) for a CD with 2 good songs and a bunch of filler. That ended quickly as, like you said, Napster and the like came on scene. Then we got the iPod and iTunes and a slew of ‘ringtone companies’ where you could buy songs individually for a dollar or two until streaming took off.

They’ve never recovered to the level they were at back then because there are just too many options now and they don’t control them all.

Well the above commentor assumed you live in the US.

The IRS and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-cash-can-you-deposit-at-a-bank-8553483

This was part of the Bank Secrecy Act and the PATRIOT Act passed by Bush and later again by Obama.

This isn’t something you’ll be able to determine in the moment. It will only be clear in hindsight.

The true fight for our democracy by the working/middle class hasn’t even started yet.

Seems like we’ll need to form our own political party if we want any representation because we’re certainly not getting it from either one of these two dominate parties.

“AZ” in the username meaning they might work at one of the fabs in Phoenix

It doesn’t matter because they will just spin it, ignore any relevance to their own actions, and repeat it enough that it becomes the narrative. This is the standard M.O.

It looks like it’s just using an SR04 ultrasonic sensor too which isn’t even that precise.

Especially right after everyone began retooling factories to produce them and the rest of the world leaves us behind in development. America will be producing the Yugos of the 1980s in a few short years.

It’s so weird that I just started seeing posts from this group on Facebook a few days ago and now there’s a lemmy community for it.

Just use the TV as a display and try to dink around with some open source media player box if you want to create your own custom OS.

This is a weird setting that must be in some brand new release because I’ve been using WLED for years and it’s always just been a current limiter for the entire strip. Perhaps it has something to do with OP using COB lights as I’ve only ever used it for standard strip lights like 5050 WS2812B or 5050 WS2815.

Yes that’s correct. Same goes for the normal WS2811 strip lights which are addressable every 3 LEDs.

Yes it’s true. Here are some examples:

https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-state-police-death-training-exercise-35d7304e3b01eb1e3e5d3c7785308e1a

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article292254230.html

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2016/04/21/inside-ms-13-initiation-rituals-and-internal-feuds/

https://lbpost.com/news/jumped-into-a-gang-at-9-years-old-these-long-beach-men-now-lead-others-out-of-that-trauma-homeboy-industries/

What exactly do you find bizarre about it? Like how is it not identical to reddit with the exception of federation? Most of the communities here are direct copies of reddit subs and/or places to repost reddit posts.

And this place is designed to be a clone of reddit so it seems dumb to be bothered by someone using reddit terminology here.

The tribe says AirBnB bad therefore OP is bad and a group outsider for staying in one.

Housing prices are based on comparable homes sold in the area, so what are you guys talking about?

I won’t argue that speculation hasn’t caused prices to rise drastically but this is an industry-wide issue not an issue with homes that “did not get sold” because they happen to be on the market at the time you viewed the available listings. You’re implying that any home on the market is priced too high simply because it’s on the market.

How would you know if it’s hidden?

More recently, they throttled Netflix until they could extort them to pay for the traffic being used by their own customers, who were already paying Comcast for the very same data usage.