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- Comment on Amazon advertises DRM-free ebooks that have restrictive DRM 🤦 1 day ago:
Buy them all. Screen grab every page.
Charge back for not getting what you paid for.
Keep the copied books.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 3 days ago:
Yeah the product was fine, it just didn’t do well. The windows phones, however… 😬
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 3 days ago:
This is a very complicated question. Many Microsoft employees would have a very heated debate over the answer to this question. It was the cause of a ton of internal conflict. Many Windows developers saw the Xbox ecosystem as a cannibalization of their existing product.
The move was political. Microsoft wanted to get some of that PlayStation money. They were afraid of losing the living room to Sony. Sony had TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and now this other thing, PlayStation, that also plugged into the TV, that all the kids were essentially demanding have equal place among the DVD player.
Microsoft already had PCs in homes. Well, operating systems. And many developers would have agreed it makes more sense to blow open the emerging market they were already champions of/adjacent to.
But it paid off. They were able to secure a fight over the living room rather than allow a competitor to take it on wholly. Pivoting to PC gaming would t have solved this threat.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 5 days ago:
ACAB, and these twats are proper buffoon.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 5 days ago:
Was thinking the same.
Where are the 13 year old troublemakers at? We used to throw bike locks on the bike cops wheels when we were kids. And they weren’t fucking terrorizing our neighborhood.
Get the kid with the crackhead parents whose been through the system a dozen times before puberty to do the dirty work, he’s in and out of the precinct in a couple hours.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 6 days ago:
Yes
It’s not very different from John bonomassa being named best guitarist by rolling stone
Who?
Exactly.
- Comment on Cirque Du Soleil Drummer Hears The Smashing Pumpkins For The First Time | Drumeo [16:12] 6 days ago:
I mean they do some that are believable and they put out quality videos. It’s just a schtick with limits that theyve ignored to the point where parody becoming is a necessary jab.
- Comment on Cirque Du Soleil Drummer Hears The Smashing Pumpkins For The First Time | Drumeo [16:12] 6 days ago:
I love drumeos videos.
But like…
Someone please do a parody?
“Dave Grohl hears The Beatles for the first time.”
Ain’t no way every one of the drummers in these videos is hearing these songs for the first time. Some are huge hits.
Love drumeos. But… Come on guys.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hey sorry everyone’s being a twat. There’s nothing wrong with using the available tools at your disposal to try to learn about things that interest you. Just make sure it’s still a learning process and not a hand holding process. Leverage AI, don’t make it support your full weight.
I can tell you this problem is out of your hands. The web app you’re using is causing it’s own error here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you have decent hand eye coordination and a reasonably quick on your feet, you’ll likely be an average beginner. Dont expect to pick up how to serve well in a day.
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 1 week ago:
They operate under the exact same roof. Usually labeled as two separate addresses for tax purposes. It is exactly true.
- Comment on I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone 1 week ago:
Hey look, the kind of person I don’t want to interact with!
Let’s add you to the block list 🤠
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 1 week ago:
Just for context, almost every federal court is a branch of a state court. State courts are still functioning. This is how a lot (not all) of the govt is.
So yeah lots of workers furloughed but barely a single building unoccupied due to the shutdown.
This is equally true of cybersecurity. For example, a non federal sysadmin may have privs to install, remove, maintain security software. That software is a private company and 24/7 SOC.
Source: im a apart of your 24/7 SOC with lots of govt clients, many clients with both federal and state workers, etc.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
🙄
The context is companies.
Most companies are orivAte equity.
Stop making shit up to suit your narrative.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
You’re thinking of publicly traded companies. That is not “companies”. That is a small sunset of companies.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 1 week ago:
China.
Not even a question.
They have 1 time zone.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
They don’t. It is a fallacy.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
ahem
It’s an Albany expression.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 2 weeks ago:
If I hear someone using the word ‘Jew’ in any prejorative sense, I find it pretty immediately telling and offensive.
- Comment on my back hurts so bad 2 weeks ago:
Dont just spend more money on it
Take the purchase more seriously.
Dont just spend more and expect better results.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 3 weeks ago:
And we all think you’re a piece of shit for not being glad he’s gone.
Which of his views were near and dear to you, comrade?
- Comment on Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why? 3 weeks ago:
Edit your configs.
It is a resource hog It you don’t tell it not to be. And for private use, you absolutely don’t need it to be.
- Comment on No thanks 4 weeks ago:
Lol they already know, man. They’re just asking to make it feel like consent.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 4 weeks ago:
This guy banks.
- Comment on How half the US lost part of their minds 4 weeks ago:
Probably has nothing to do with the economic crash and housing crisis in 2008 where a fuck ton of people lost their homes and their everything. Probably weren’t preyed upon at their most vulnerable or anything like that.
- Comment on How do phone scammers work? I get them trying to get another persons money. But how do they get all the info and now can do voice fakes. I highly doubt they just pick a random person and say fuck them 1 month ago:
There’s huge outfits of scammers.
They buy data. Phone numbers, emails, sometimes passwords etc.
They phish, they smish, they vish.
When a fish ends up on rheine they try to reel em in
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
I imagine this will actually create competition. Android is open source. It can be forked.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 month ago:
"One star
Literally made me sign a contract saying I would t leave a negative review. Speaks for itself. "
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 1 month ago:
Think outside the box.
“If anyone in that jury was served an ad from this provider, we cannot assume they have no preconceived notion of my guilt or innocence.”
- Comment on What does 🥀 mean? I've seen it used online a lot recently. 1 month ago: