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Piracy exists because it’s easier than the alternative. Textbooks are expensive as hell and publishers are working to demolish the used book market - first by changing the version every year, and now with one-time-use mandatory software keys. Sites like Libgen wouldn’t have to exist if textbooks were $20 a pop, or if the used book market was allowed to exist. These problems are created by greed.

$1/day is pretty cheap. I’ve been alive around 12k days. For less than the price of a car, I can erase my own existence. Sounds like a bargain to me!

That feeling’s just gonna intensify over time, friend. The people who have time to post on the Internet are overwhelmingly 1) literal children and 2) college aged adults. It’s not just here, it’s the whole dang web.

This whole thing is absurd and overcomplicated - they could have just copied Unreal and slightly undercut them.

It isn’t too complicated, but for example, a game which made $2 million in gross revenue would owe Epic Games $50,000, because it would pay 5 percent of $1 million, keeping the first million entirely—minus whatever other fees are owed, such as Steam’s cut.

There should also absolutely have been a grandfather clause for games already released.

I get Unity needs to make money. They’ve never been profitable. But they’ve seriously overcomplicated the whole thing and gotten people angry at them.

Back at my old job (I haven’t really worked in an office since, remote and all that) the newer building across the street had restrooms with stalls that closed all the way and went down to the floor, no gaps. And there were an absolute ton of stalls. (One of the issues I’ve had since gender transition is the continued need to use a stall but there are usually way less in the men’s room, but the restrooms in that building had so many stalls, it was incredible.)

🤯 I frankly never thought of just asking. I figured they were under the gun to deliver so quickly that they wouldn’t do that. This changes things. I may have to visit In-N-Out again.

Beat Saber, currently. Get me in that music zone and let me wave my arms around like an idiot.

I do appreciate the taste, but I wish they weren’t so soggy. I would love them to be fried and crisped up a bit more.

I was really hoping for the Duo to succeed and be iterated upon. It fascinated me and seemed like it would be useful for taking notes at work, provided I ever RTO. Oh, well.

Two lost media from my childhood.

1. the lost “Saban Moon” pilot. Something talked about on Geocities pages back in my preteen years which was almost guaranteed never to be recovered, until someone dropped it on YouTube last year.

2. Pokemon Live. I desperately wanted to go to this, it was even playing in the next city over, and my parents said no, we’d buy the VHS advertised on the Pokemon website whenever it came out… Guess what never came out? I spent years scouring old websites for script fragments, saving screenshots and camcorder bootlegs, audio recordings… I would wager that, until six years ago, I had the most complete version of Pokemon Live out of anybody on the internet. And then someone dropped the full version, one of those saved for posterity full stage recordings, onto YouTube.

Both of these are abysmal, but it’s not really about the destination so much as it is about the proof of having taken the journey.

Oh, if that’s the case then it makes perfect sense why Wordpad is being deprecated, and I’m glad Microsoft is keeping things simple and sensible for average basic users. I’ve only ever used a corporate image for W11 so it didn’t have those shortcuts.

Hey, it also has tabs on Windows 11, which is a very useful feature! It’s the only thing I find myself missing when I move from my W11 work laptop back to my W10 home desktop.

So, I’ve been mulling this over. I know Microsoft Word web version is free and I suppose that’s their replacement, but it needs to be more accessible if that’s the case. Like, for my very Average Mom who buys a laptop, she actually was using Wordpad for years until I got her onto my M365 family plan because it was a built in program and she knows how to navigate the Start menu and open programs.

Assuming a parallel universe where she didn’t have access to desktop Word, how does she know Microsoft Word Online is available to her? Is there a shortcut on the desktop, or directly from Edge? Should there be a start menu icon which opens it up directly? Has Microsoft considered this? I would hope they have.

I moved from a Moto X many years ago and I still miss the double flick to open the camera. I also miss how compact that phone was.

When these things were originally being tested, at least the Waymo ones I’m familiar with, there was a driver who could manually override in case of issues. Honestly, if these things still have issues with emergency situations (and other unexpected situations), they absolutely still need a driver with the ability to manually override the car. That way, they can still test the self-driving function while being able to actually maneuver the car out of the way of things like this.

Hell of a world where people have to build their own open source systems for basic medical care, but I’m all for it. It’ll help the technologically savvy, and then for-profit med companies will race to catch up to maintain their dominance and the less tech-savvy will also have the improvements they need.

Did you know that Reddit’s newest chat function technically uses Matrix? Boom, the capacity for interoperability should the EU come down on them. That’s just one example of the background ways companies are preparing for this.

To learn more, the EU has put together a helpful site at this link.

They absolutely will. The EU’s Digital Markets Act requires interoperability between social messaging services. ActivityPub is an easy way to comply because they are “technically” interoperable but can still choose to only federate with instances that abide by their rules.

How about “positive carbon negativity” and “negative carbon positivity”? As a bonus, this allows us extra terms such as “negative carbon negativity” and “positive carbon positivity” which can be similarly confused for each other!

(On a more serious note, “carbon reducing” and “carbon increasing” are good.)

mm mm nothing does my body better than sleeve of saltines