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- Comment on Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' 14 hours ago:
Given that the primary is over, is there any better alternative?
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 day ago:
Why do you hate property rights?
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 day ago:
Sure you didn’t wait too long before updating so they had to force those updates?
That is some “making excuses for your abuser” shit, right there!
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 day ago:
I’m not sure I’d call permissive licensing “ideological purity” compared to copyleft.
Frankly, I think BSD loses because corporations are legally allowed to take and never give back.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 day ago:
Stockholm syndrome.
- Comment on Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat 1 day ago:
WTF, Shadiversity is Jazza’s brother?! 🤯
Also, why is he much criticized by the HEMA community? I’ve watched a few of his videos, but don’t know enough about HEMA to understand what’s bad about them.
(The rest of it I didn’t know… but I’m not surprised.)
- Comment on Sally Rooney’s Books Can No Longer Be Sold in the UK 1 day ago:
The UK is way ahead
That’s why they call it “Airstrip One.”
- Comment on Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat 1 day ago:
I’m OOTL on what’s wrong with Shadiversity. Got a link?
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 3 days ago:
I don’t mean to make light of the bigotry, but the fact that that piece of shit inflicted JavaScript upon the world is reason enough to hate him by itself. He has a proven track record of incompetence and terrible design decisions.
- Comment on "How long is this supposed to TAKE!" ~King Julian 4 days ago:
I had a Beelink Me Mini and a half dozen NVMEs in my cart around that time, but didn’t pull the trigger when the price started rising and now I’m kicking myself for it.
- Comment on With Corporate politicians it's never "The Time". 1 week ago:
For the record, during the primary and after the election are both definitely “the time.”
- Comment on Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech? 1 week ago:
If I had known it was gonna get this bad I would’ve gone for a new motherboard with a 9800X3D and DDR5 in my desktop, instead of keeping my existing one and upgrading to a 5700X3D and 64GB of DDR4. Also, I might have gotten a 7900XTX instead of a 9070XT (they were roughly the same price at the time, but the 7900XTX is double the price now).
I would have pulled the trigger on the minipc NAS I was thinking about, as I literally had it and a bunch of SSDs in my Amazon cart but was waffling about it when the prices started skyrocketing.
I might have even bought one of those “strix halo” PCs with the 128GB of unified memory back when they were $2000 instead of $4000+.
- Comment on Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech? 1 week ago:
I tried to do all of my tech purchasing for the foreseeable future shortly after Trump was reelected, based on the assumption that he was going to fuck the economy. Gotta admit I thought the high prices would come from idiotic tariffs instead of idiotic AI, but whatever…
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
I say they should only be allowed Thrift Savings Plan funds.
- Comment on Turning off new instance applications 2 weeks ago:
I know nothing about this instance. Is there a reason it’s getting targeted in particular, or are all Lemmy instances having the same issue?
- Comment on Anon experiences a glitch 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Rutherford.
- Comment on LEGO Racers returns and is playable for free on PC now 2 weeks ago:
I guess if you’re doing it as a big middle finger to copyright anyway, it’s fine. It’s when they start calling it “open source” because they published some source code that I have a problem with it, because decompiling doesn’t magically make it stop being proprietary or infringement.
- Comment on Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard 3 weeks ago:
ActivistTerrorist - Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 3 weeks ago:
I was in a hurry when I wrote the previous comment, but I would also like to point out that when something is both (a) a natural monopoly and (b) has a lot of positive externalities, it is the least appropriate candidate for privatization possible. If somebody wants to do it even despite that, it’s entirely justified to question their motives!
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 3 weeks ago:
“Somebody should make a profit off this because it’s more efficient” and “my cronies should make a profit off this because it helps me” are different, but the distinction is so minor in practice that lots of normal people rightfully don’t give a shit about it.
- Comment on How do you verify that a used bike that you're buying isn't stolen? 4 weeks ago:
Only buy bikes being sold at a fair (not suspiciously low) price* from sellers who can answer questions about specs/condition/history.
(* Being offered a bike for free from somebody who wants to get rid of it is an exception to this, obviously.)
- Comment on Question - Retro Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
What is “1G1R”?
- Comment on If I only have space/money for one exercise machine, what should I get? 4 weeks ago:
I would get a smart trainer (that you attach a real bike to) for Zwift etc. rather than a whole indoor exercise bike.
- Comment on Was anyone able to catch the 4K remasters in theaters for the 60th anniversary? 5 weeks ago:
I was planning to see The Voyage Home, but I was so frazzled by the end of Dragon Con that I thought it was on Tuesday, not Monday, and missed it. 🙁
- Comment on Thank you to cm0002 for reposting my meme from lemmy to lemmy. 5 weeks ago:
I like how the screenshots omit the instance, giving the false impression that it’s a repost to the same community instead of the reality that it’s a crosspost to the corresponding community on a different instance.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 5 weeks ago:
I was aware of the treaty and its role in circumventing the democratic process, but was not aware that the anti-cirvumvention bullahit was part of it.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 5 weeks ago:
“Safer” in this context meaning “a safer bet for the bank’s ability to reliably undermine your control of your device”.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 5 weeks ago:
So far, AFAIK, the “must use app to bank” problem is happening only outside the US where the DMCA doesn’t apply.
- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 1 month ago:
Leave it to Sony to come up with new and innovative ways to harass customers.
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 1 month ago:
Personally I actually think class has more to do with it than sexism in general. For example the first professional woman to play golf in slacks was in 1933, while the first black professional golfer was allowed in the PGA in 1967.
It’s weird that you keep saying only “class” when you mean both class and race. Yes, they’re correlated, but they’re not the same and both really are at play here.