Lightor

@Lightor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a software dev and it should only take 7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re just a preteen yelling memes, you are capable of an actual conversation huh.

  Bye kiddo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, are we at the point where facts just don’t matter? Are you saying there isn’t protein in a burger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we view skills differently. I don’t see it as having to labor in my own time, I look at it as investing in my future so I can have a more comfortable life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As bad as it is for you a Big Mac does have nutrition. There are things like protein and calcium in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎶cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other🎵⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Having been in the Marines you get oddly used to the “No Marines allowed” signs outside of base. It gets to the point where Marines would use clip on jewelry to try to fool places into letting them in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But I mean it’s a question of how you define food at that point. How would you define food?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  1. To be good at your job and do well. Especially in tech where things can evolve quickly. Or just learn your job once and get left behind.
  2. I like growing my skill because I like that I do and being better at it I can demand more money. I do this outside of my employer because I want to grow.
  3. To be better at what you do, learn ways to avoid struggles you run into to make your life easier, be able to demand more money by knowing skills or tools others don’t. I mean a ton of reasons.

  My commenting and posting workflow aren’t things that can help me buy a house. Knowing emerging technologies that command a higher salary can. I literally learned the skills of my career on my own, online. I read books, I learned how to use tools, I grew. Now I make more money because of that. I wasn’t sitting around waiting for for employer to pay for and make me get better at something. I don’t get how this is such a hard thing to comprehend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that rolls off the tongue as well as fast food. Maybe it’s the alliteration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can are we forgetting about the rest of the blade? This is like putting foam on your bumper in case you hit someone. It’s performative and does nothing in reality. Like you said, if they want to kill someone a blunt tip won’t stop them, they literally have the rest of the knife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What should we call it “fast consumables”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are some reasonable SaaS models out there, but end user tools shouldn’t be one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Either way, you should know and explore the tools of your trade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but like, I’m smart enough to know I’m not in that 65%, because I’m smarter than average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t understand what you said and that makes me angry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to be doing everything to ignore the fact that they now have the right and ability to do it. Which is all that was being said and you disagreed with.

  I don’t care about what usually happens. We usually don’t pay for the tutorial to a new system either, but here we are. Things change.

  Let me tell you, you’re off in lala land with your interpretation

  Ok, what part am I misunderstanding about being able to disable the hardware in part or whole? How does disabling the device in whole not allow them to brick it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What part of wholey disable the device isn’t clicking. They can wipe the firmware. Also bricking is used in a lot of ways, but even this they can do.

  This isn’t banning from online service… Did you even read what I quoted about hardware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. They can now brick your physical device. It is something they can now do. Brick the entire thing. That was the point of this post, and you said “no it’s just online service stuff.” My whole point was saying that’s not true. They can now brick your Nintendo Switch if you mod it. It’s not a thing the CAN do. I’m glad we finally agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What? It’s not a what if. It says they have the right to, in whole, disable the device itself. What part of that do we not know for sure. It’s literally written out…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems like exactly what they are saying with “and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.” Them saying in part makes sense with the service. I’m whole makes it very clear. How would you wholey disable a device by not having Nintendo account service?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has to do with their online services; not the switch itself.

  Just wrong

  Literally from the terms:

  “You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So Nintendo just rapid firing bad PR now or what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Nintendo seems to think they are untouchable. They can do whatever, charge whatever, not even innovate anymore with the Switch 2, and attack fans. I’m done with Nintendo, the only way I’ll ever play any of their games is on the high seas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Before the industrial revolution participating in art wasn’t something you did to make money, it was a prerequisite to a full human existence. Why say something that is so easily disproven. In ancient Greece, artists were paid by the government to build temples and other public buildings in Athens. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, works of art were commissioned by patrons and made to order. There are tons of examples of people doing it for money and as their sole job. You are %100 wrong here.

  Art isn’t a job art is humanity. Art isn’t pointless, art is the point. Cool, and how does that person making art eat?

  Look into the concept of commodification. You’ll learn a lot Yes, I learned about this way back in college. It’s not some new or crazy idea. It’s not even a bad idea, it has help society throughout many points in history.

  I’m saying that people shouldn’t “be able to live” off of art the same way they shouldn’t “be able to live” off breathing and further.

  Art is something you invest time and money and resources into. Breathing is not. This doesn’t make any sense. I can breathe while working a 9-5.

  I am ignoring the ripple effects on people’s lives because those effects only hit them as far as they have allowed themselves to participate in the selling off of their humanity.

  Really? Well that is extremely close minded. Without IP big pharma won’t be interested in investing millions into a new vaccine, so I guess everyone who dies from the lack of that vaccine is their fault, because they sold their sole. Or you spent your life on your masterpiece of a book and want to make money off your life’s work, someone you’ve sold you soul because you want money to live.

  And no. It doesn’t extend to free speech because free speech isn’t an argument solely used to prop up a system that shouldn’t have ever existed at all.

  Have you never seen politicians? Have you ever read a history book? Words and hate speech, covered by freedom of speech, has lead to many deaths. But I guess they don’t matter somehow.

  Art is not pointless, but it shouldn’t be something you buy or sell. Many things we buy or sell today are the same. Art is not unique.

  But I’m sure the artist wants a house to live in. Who is making that house? They want to eat. How are they getting that food. You seem to live in a fantasy land where everyone has unlimited time and money to just create and be happy with creating, no bills, no real world to worry about.

  But the argument that an artist in the Netherlands keeping their job because otherwise they’ll starve is a justification for a child in Sierra Leone dying of tuberculosis when the person paying for the art has the ability to give the artist food and the child medicine is evil. And make no mistake, that person is you. Sure call me evil. But if I’m evil then you are the literal devil. That kid who wants that tuberculosis medicine, how do you think we got that medicine? A company invested millions to research it. So when the next disease comes around and it’s killing millions and no one is willing to just burn millions to find a cure because they have no IP, those deaths will be because of people like you. You have this childish mindset that after IP is gone everyone will magically have meds in their hands and everything will be perfect. No, you’re just as dumb as you are evil. New diseases will come up, no one will invest in curing them because they will lose money, and people will die. The difference between me and you is I can see more than 1 month into the future on how this would effect things.

  IP abolition is one single part of a much larger reform we need, and anyone who is arguing against it is missing the forest for the trees. That is my argument.

  I agree we need reform. But I would say anyone arguing that we don’t need IP is naive. They benefit from it every day while saying it should be destroyed. Which now that I think of it sounds like every republican. Not calling you one, just funny how that works out. No surprise that people with money are the ones wanting it gone. Ever think why the rich want this? Is it because you think they’re trying to be good people? Or maybe, just maybe, they realize how they will get even more money and power while selling a fantasy that people eat up. This is just like how people eat up the idea of tariffs without even understanding what they are. That’s you.

  Wanting artists to be able to be paid for their work obfuscates the much larger, actually important issue that they’ll starve in our society without their art. That is evil.

  Yes, they shouldn’t have to do art to survive. But your solution would just kill art all together. Because a system is broken is not a reason to remove it entirely, it’s a reason to fix it. You just seem to have this pipe dream of a world where everyone can just do art whenever for free and no one ever has to worry about money. That sounds great, but it’s a fantasy. I live in reality, please join me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I wouldn’t be in favor of “burn it down” if I thought we could negotiate better terms with our current IP oligarchs.

  So since we can’t save it, we just burn it down? The legal system isn’t doing so hot either, should we just get rid of laws? I mean rich people can break then and regular people can’t, should we just get rid of them since we can’t fix it right now?

  I’ll still be available to do creative work. It wouldn’t change my current work-for-hire efforts.

  I don’t know what kind of work you do, but it would impact many. You can’t show drafts, you can’t present mock-ups, etc, because they can just take those. You could make art for someone saying they will pay and then they don’t. You could get a refund, but they just copied the art and it’s theirs now.

  This also harms people who in literature especially. They don’t own the book they write. And for anyone to appreciate it, they also have the ability to give it away for free. But I guess since it doesn’t impact you, it’s somehow not a problem?

  Very little valuable IP is held by actual creators, today.

  This may be true, but guess how they lost that IP? They sold it. They owned it and were able to sell it to a bigger company that could run away with it. Without IP the selling part goes away, they just take it and run away with it. I mean come on, how do you think authors make money?

  Are you an actual published creator, or a temporarily embarrassed future billionaire? Tell me you don’t understand empathy without telling me. You made it very clear before by the “it won’t impact me” statement, but this is just next level. Because I and many other can see how this will cause damage, that means nothing because we’ve not been personally impacted?

  But that falls apart when I have actually created and sold software. I have created IP. And I’ve had actually to defend my personal IP from a previous employer.

  Is there a version of success for you that isn’t just selling to a big IP company to get enough money to retire? That’s what it looks like, to me.

  What? You’re just making up a scenario in your head. If you can sell your IP to company and live comfortably for the rest of your life while they do all the heavy lifting and you get paid while people enjoy what you create, how is that some big loss? Because you want all the money? Sure, then self publish, it’s an option. Start a small LLC, people do it, stop acting like it’s the only way forward.

  The peak of my possible success would be to write something that threatens/tempts the big IP holders enough to force them to buy me out. If I don’t take the buy out, they eventually bury my thing with their advertising power.

  I mean, false. This is just wrong, people have created companies, brands, book series, etc. This just seems like you have decided you have no chance so you don’t try and want to tear down the system so you can get yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So art is pointless because people are dying? This is silly. We can destroy the creative nature of our society to save some people, sure. Ignoring the ripple effect that has and lives it would impact, how far do you take that? Is losing the right to freedom of speech ok if it saves lives? This would have massive down stream effects and actuall results in more harm.

  Did you ever consider the ability to make and sell these, then transport? Did you consider the fact that as new deseases emerge that there will be no incentive for a company to invest in finding a cure or vaccine? No, because people just want to virtue signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t read the whole book, I didn’t have time.

  But since you claim to have, explain how that problem is solved. I mean you read it all right? So correct me, how is that problem solved? Show me how big of an idiot I am.

  Or is this just a deflection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This argument falls apart with the very basic concept of self publishing which many do.

  It also ignores that you get a deal with that publisher and still get paid. Without IP they don’t have to pay you.

  Come on people…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The smartest person in the world would lose a fight to a bear in the woods. The bear is a car with claws and thick hide trying to kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I man that’s a lot of assumptions. In that case, throw some cubs in there and the bear would fight to the death.