Really? Its pretty common. Less common than nsfw, but still. Guess you’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand.

r/eyebleach was a great place to go after stumbling on a nsfl post. I wonder if there is a Lemmy equivalent… Gonna go check.

Found a few communities, most only have a few posts, this one has the most at 32.

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What’s the difference between malware and windows?

Malware is well maintained by its developers.

And how do you give away a digital game?

You might not sell games, but other people do especially if they don’t like a game.

Now the game just sits in a virtual library unplayed. If there was a way to sell, or loan, a game license to a friend or something, that’d be cool.

Woah, slow down there pal. Don’t cha know, seeing articles makes a copy in your brain which is piracy.

Yeah, flash certainly wouldn’t work for actually running the game, but it would work great for a 1 time distribution/transfer method to the game to a pic/console’s drive.

They could just use a flash drive to distribute the game. Copy the game to the local drive…and wait, that’s how PC gaming works.

The appeal of CDs, or game cartridges, was the ability to load a game and immediately start playing (well after the loading screen as everything loaded into ram) and you could play the game on other consoles (bring game to friend or resell it). To recreate that, most games would have to be shipped on a 256gb ssd so the game can just load from that on any computer. I have a feeling that’s not the best business strategy right now

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.