The issue is that someone else holds the key to your license. They can revoke it at any time, with 0 meaningful consequences.

We must now provide our own physical media to store the game…which in principle is fine and makes more sense than a game disk. However, the reliance on corporations to not fuck you over is the issue.

Archiving all your games is easier than said done too. To properly “keep” every game, you’ll need a lot of high-capacity storage devices. Going by common file backup strategy, we need to store at least 3 copies, ideally 1 off site somehow. That’s going to add up quick.

And hopefully your game is DRM free and doesn’t try to phone home looking for a valid license on a deprecated server.

Next update? No, it’s re-enabled automatically when ever you have an important conversation, that way you can’t forget to turn it back on!

I hate what google has become.

Gas pump ads are the worst. I stopped going to a station because they couldn’t be muted, and they’re the ads that scream at you or brain rot craft videos. I wouldn’t have minded so much if was only the “good news” segment or usefull PSAs. But yelling at me at 7am to buy beef jerky is not okay.

If a person came up to you at the pump and offered a flyer, that’s okay. But if they started screaming at you to buy their shit, that’d be harassment. Gas pumps should not be allowed to “harass” people.

Well that’s fun. Odd someone named Campbell asking was for a tomato soup recipe, you’d think that would just be built into their bloodline or something.

While I’m glad no JS package managers were hurt to make the soup, I do wish the recipe didn’t waste so much water.

The layman just has to explain how they’re doing it wrong confidently written almost as a tutorial.

They’ll get the right info pretty quick.

Jellyfin is PnP if you get someone else to setup it up for you 🙃

And that’s part of why I transferred over to privacy.com for all my online stuff. Every online website/service gets a dedicated card, with set limits and are easily deactivated.

Unfortunately, privacy.com only works in the united states. I’m unaware of any alternatives.

Well that’s terrible. Gonna need a Bluetooth broadcast device that send all kinds of bogus info to these things and figure out how to spoof a bluetooth mac address. or a hammer or one of them projectile shooters Americans seem to love.

Although, in an alternate timline where technology is used for good, if these things connected to the various find-my networks to help people locate their stuff, that’d be pretty cool.

Don’t forget the “major” version increment that breaks “lifetime”.

• Oh, you’re mistaken. The license is for the lifetime of version 32. To use version 33 you must upgrade. But no rush, you have until version 33.1 before we activate the kill switch.

Awkward

The sand people stopped participating when a new guy “Racer V” went off the tracks killing them all. It took weeks to clean up.

Its a shame Racer V disappeared before Racer X appeared, their races would have been legendary.

If you can see the light has gone out, it just means the light bulb needs to be replaced.

I still use Simple note.

While I’d prefer one that isn’t owned by the same people as WordPress and not sync to their cloud, it is open source and free. I figure it beats Google or MS notes, and don’t have to manage syncing all the files. No AI nonsense either (at least for now)

Easy for shopping lists and jotting stuff down, there’s an app for all the major OSs. I definitely don’t trust it for anything important or sensitive.

…yes, I definitely read your entire post and repeated exactly what you said for fun.

Why have an extension for this?

On Firefox (desktop and mobile) you can easily add it as your default search engine. It can be done in Vivaldi too (not sure if its a chrome default or Vivaldi addition).

They could just have a 1 paragraph guide telling you how to do it.

Hah, I think we’ll be sadled with 100% of the debt and consequences.

I hope you saved what you could from that exchange, as well the attempts to contact them. If they ever notice, their AI mistake will become your problem to deal with, (and the kind of news story to end up on a Steve Lehto video).

If that happened to me, I’d have a chat with my bank, “please help me return this money to where it came from, it was payed in error. They have no way to contact a human and I don’t want them to accuse me of fraud down the line”.

Must be a bug on Debian side. That’s all common hardware, so you can just rely on someone else to report it and you’ll be back up in a day or 2.

Has anyone recommended Breezy yet? It’s great!

That’s good… (The not killing part) On a completely unrelated note, I like your hat.