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A penny in 1900 was a worthless token that only had value because it could be exchanged for the valuable Silver and Gold coins of the era.

2067 pennies were able to be exchanged for 1 Oz of fine Gold.

Today, you need more than 400,000 pennies to get the same Oz of fine Gold.

400,000 / 2067 = 193

So the penny in 1900 is 193 pennies today.

Guess I lucked out. Though I did pay $30 for ultra lifetime, right before Reddit killed the app, in order to support the dev. So it balances out I suppose.

Did my app glitch or something? I installed day one, then a few hours later an update dropped with the option to pay $13 for lifetime ad-free and I immediately paid that. Now everyone's complaining it's $20?

I'm in the USA but I think it's inevitable. The USA is the single largest primarily English speaking democracy in the world. Since Lemmy.world is a primarily English speaking instance, it should be expected that an American would create a politics community first and since it's the first they just call it politics.

For example, the UK is the only country in the world where they don't put the country name on their stamps. Because they invented paper stamps first in 1840.

This is not a fight worth worrying about IMO.

OMG That's wage left!!! You should be ashamed! The boss could make more money if you work more like a robot and less like a human being! Heck, if you were an actual robot they wouldn't have to pay you at all! Think of how much the stock price could go up then! Robots don't complain about living wages, require training or form unions, and they don't worry about climate change and ecological collapse! The perfect worker.

IMO the law is intended to reduce consumer electronic waste, making batteries that anyone from kids to grandparents can easily replace themselves. Currently the steam deck battery isn't all that difficult to replace for the tech savvy "brave" folks who happily open up their devices and see the internals, but for most people that's not good enough. I would never expect my 68 year old mother to replace it herself. IMO the aim is to make batteries replaceable like the PS5 SSD expansion capacity is. Just need a screwdriver and a few minutes, without every feeling like you might break something. Needing anything more than that and most people won't do it out of fear they'll break their device.

But only time will tell what actually happens.

on Sync for Reddit is dead · c/android · 2 pts · 3y

I think you misunderstood, I used the revanced manager to patch Sync so I could continue to use it, not the official app to just remove ads (which would still be an improvement).