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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • The councils pay landlords for 1 room in a 8+ room house.

    In the area I’m thinking of, this costs £900 (or $1100) a month. For comparison,

    • Council flats (1 person flat) cost £500-600/month
    • Market rate for apartments is £1000 / month.

    I think the absurd rate being charged for abysmal conditions is partially rationalised by the fact that it’s paid to those landlords on a daily basis, but it’s obviously completely inefficient.

    I don’t want to go into the horrors of being in a homeless shelter, but it would be better for everyone involved if housing was more accessible.






  • Are you sure about that?

    I’ve read both articles and they both seem to say they are stopping production of Blu-rays, plus three other formats.

    We will end production of all models of Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes as of February 2025

    It mentions that consumer recordable Blu-rays were already dropped last year.

    Mid-last year, the Japanese multinational conglomerate revealed that it would stop production of consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs (BD-RE and BD-R)

    Still, this might just mean that Sony will no longer make games distributed via disc. Sony does not have a Monopoly on making Blu-ray discs, and I do not believe they can unilaterally decide that no more will be made by others

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_manufacturers

    Regardless, it is a sign of the times, with Blu-ray reader production being recently stopped by LG. It’s likely all downhill from here, as much as I am sad to say.

    I will resist this as much as possible, as I like owning my media. If you give me no means to own my movies, then I will find other ways to acquire them.