I’m a lot of things, but not a Velociraptor
They don’t need to do it. It’s the possibility of doing it what is already wrong. What happens if pedohitler decides that he needs to shutdown the phones for some bullshit reason before the midterms? You think apple won’t bow and do as daddy trump says?
This is a major concern because it’s written in the OS directly. It’s not just something they install in your phone if it’s a lease meaning that even if your phone is not leased, they can do it.
Yeah, but you can’t enter with your car in a public restroom.
Nah, won’t happen. They’ll cut power to homes to prevent the datacenter blackout.
They don’t care. They think (and hope) people will buy the new ps6 at whatever price and will accept digital because what choice they have? Get a switch 2? Or an xbox (can you even buy them?). Nah, the guy playing fc, or cod, or nfl or gta will buy one. And let’s be honest, that casual gamer who gets the same titles every year and eventually buys something else (still mainstream) is the biggest part of their playerbase.
Some people will switch to pc but the majority will silently buy a ps6 only digital because let’s be honest, they don’t care if FC26 becomes unplayble in 2030, by that time, they’ll be playing FC30.
Long story short:
A snowflake created a frontend for lemmy in which they added a hidden blacklist of communities, people and even words that were shadowbanned for everyone using it without informing first, so if you used it, you’d be seeing a censored version of the fediverse based solely on one person’s opinion about what you should be seeing there.
Some smart people discovered this and the community didn’t take it too well for how it was made (in particular, how it was not optional but forced on the user).
The dev of the frontend wasn’t happy about it and ragequitted with a letter in which they basically say that we are all mad here (except them) and that the fediverse can’t be saved because we are all pissed about this (as if they were our one and only saviour or some crap).
Edit: forgot to add: of course, the people and communities targeted on the ban were, coincidentally, lgbtq or allies and you know, anything that would piss a fascist.
The headline is wrong.
Fascist regime fucks over people’s constitutional rights and could send a man to prison for protecting his own privacy.
There, fixed.
At least in Europe (but I suppose it’s the same in other places), what you have in packaging is either expiry date or best before date.
There is a fundamental difference between the two that everyone should know to understand how those dates work:
On expiry date, it means that after said date, there is microbiological contamination risk of the good. So you shouldn’t eat/use it after the date. It applies to fresh goods, cosmetics and others.
On best before date, it means that the product, after said date will be most probably safe to eat but it’s organoleptic properties might be altered (e.g. change in colour, funny taste…). After a best before date, you should check for the item to see if visually there’s something wrong on it (especially if packaging is open), but if it’s been kept in it’s packaging unopened, it’s almost certainly safe to eat. Pasta and other dried foods generally fall into this category and, if you look at the packaging, you’ll see that unless is fresh pasta, it includes a best before not an expiry date.
Exactly, so why are they describing this as grim?
What do you mean “grim”?
And yet, we had Resident Evil 2 on N64 with all the videos and no compromises. The only reason why they abandoned Nintendo is because it was the FMV era and those were difficult to properly compress.
On the other hand, N64 was home to huge games that did marvels with the hardware. Because of the cart limitations, we had masterpieces such as Perfect Dark, Zelda Oot, Jet Force Gemini… Cart limits made devs focus on things that weren’t FMVs.
Psx and N64 era brought a bunch of the best videogames ever. Not sure what you’re talking about.
The issue is not physical yes/physical no. The issue is that if a company decides to take a game you bought from you, they can do it.
What we should be legislating is a law so if a company delists and removes from your account a game, they should refund you the price you paid.
This happens when you bought through a sale a long term plan (maybe 12 or 24 months). During new sales they will offer you again the best price on a long term plan or a worse price on a shorter term plan. It’s not infuriating, it’s just the service offering you a better price if you purchase a longer term plan (probably similar to the one you already bought last time).
Yeah, but I meant something like actually trading. Not just sharing in the family group. Imagine I have a game I’ve completed, I don’t want it anymore and you want to play it. We’re not in the same family group, so I offer you to trade it for a game of your library, or maybe we make a deal and you pay me some money for it so you are in a way, purchasing it second-hand from me.
It is now the moment for Valve to announce that they have come up with a way to let you sell/exchange games between users on Steam. They do this and they eat the whole market.
Yeah no. If my boss comes to tell me that from now on my “productivity” will be measured in token usage rather than actual “production”, you can bet I will use agents for every fucking thing. Hell, I’ll even make a desktop clock that works by asking the IA what time is it every milisecond and then updating the time on screen every time. I’m gonna burn tokens till you regret it.
If after this happens, the rules of billing change and my boss starts getting charged per token usage instead of a flat charge per month, that’s not my problem; until my productivity stops being measured in token usage, you are gonna pay dumb money for your dumbness.
Uh… those are two different fruits. If you are going to compare packing to measure shrinkflation, shouldn’t you be using the same product?
I mean… I wouldn’t say that the 3€ I pay for my torbox monthly are so much money as to be considered a luxury but I guess not everyone can afford that much for a sub…
So, as I said, a special kind of moron.
The big studios keep giving me reasons to never ever buy one of their games and not even pirate them.