I've seen some arbitration agreements stating that you can't collaborate with other customers who are affected by the same issue, requiring each customer to have a different attorney.
Oh no, I did it anyways and collaborated with other customers online. Oh well guess we gotta arbitrate that now.
I want to give the perspective that from a technical standpoint, even free games on steam require the steam client to install and while the license to play the game is free steam is licensing your account to own the game. The game doesn't require steam after that and usually this means the game is available elsewhere, but for the specific case of "free games on steam", steam is still acting to manage digital rights.
You're right about them going bust, but they were bought by Keurig/Dr. Pepper and is in stores, just probably none near you. My local Walmart has it.
They don't recognize or value software patents because they aren't recognized by the government where the project is run from.
And yet, this is the issue that gets a response instead of a silent closed offtopic wontfix.
Synthetic urine exists.
Yeah, but it never tastes quite the same.
As my father always said: you may be a funny person, but looks don't count for everything.
Photoshop requires time and talent to make a believable image.
This requires neither.
Can't use sound logic to get someone out of a position they didn't use sound logic to get themselves into.
Oh my God, you killed a Kennedy!
You're right, the people who do already know deserve to learn something special too.
Here's my personal favorite mix that they've done. Not a lot of people who know them have heard it, but it's absolutely stellar.
You said "but" like it invalidated what I said, instead of being a true statement and a non sequitur.
You aren't wrong, and I don't think that changes what I said either.
This would've been a useless comment even if it were relevant.
You're crazy.
It's a quote from a Star Wars show movie.
No thanks on the crypto DAO stuff here. Glad it makes someone happy but sounds like a person problem and not a technological one.
I attempted to email opt-out@discord.com per the ToS and got a bounceback.
"Well yes, you see: we contained it in the environment. Fully contained. No chance of it leaving the environment."
Are you thinking of the OG Steam Machines? They tried a PC console before that flopped, a while ago.
You appear to have a much different experience with AI than I do.
The Device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in SubjectHometownHere.
I'd go watch the movie, but my partner says that I'm too sick and clumsy to get out of bed right now. I don't know where I'd be if they weren't around to keep me straight, always reminding me of things I've said and done when I have moments of brain fog.
Last time I got Papa Johns, a literal child delivered my order alone while her DoorDashing mom watched from her car. I didn't order through DoorDash. I left feedback informing them that I would not be buying pizza from somewhere that makes me question whether I'm contributing to breaking child labor laws.
I would order local takeout if it were cheaper and wasn't consistently soggy.
Domino's is the most consistently "worth the money" pizza near me, with Little Caesars coming in a distant second.
I am no longer interested in continuing a conversation with you, as you've convinced me that you're not interested in engaging with what I am saying. Thank you for your time and perspective to this point.
Hell, at least shopping malls were up-front about their literal storefronts.
I mean, comments are free. If you believe that's a decent enough use of your limited time on this Earth, who am I to argue?
Nano is the tool that people use when they don't have a need for TUI editors in general and therefore don't want to have to memorize how people with teletypes decided things should have been done 75 years ago and who also don't want to get dragged into endless pointless bickering arguments about which set of greybeards was objectively right about their sets of preferences.
I'm glad people enjoy the editors they use and also I just wanna change a single fuckin line in a config file every once in a while without needing to consult a reference guide.
As someone who uses BSD licensed modified code at work and relies on it quite a lot, it's crucial to me choosing which projects I'm able to use in the first place.
Personally, I prefer a license that allows for commercial use in the way that companies need them to, and if my own work ever can provide a patch back upstream I'd be happy to do so, but most of what I do is just tweaking things that exist to suit my purposes which doesn't really help anyone but my business rivals which I personally am not interested in doing if I don't have to.
I prefer to have the freedom to do as I wish with the code, as compared to being bound to do as the author wishes and essentially just not using that code in the first place because I can't. I'm not in a position to change what I can and can't do because of the requirements of the business I work for, and I'm grateful to those that choose licenses that allow me to use their work.
They're creating a new browser because they want to. It started as an OS building project that the lead dev did to help stay sober.
They use discord because it's popular. Insert Ouroborus argument here, and at the end of the day it's still the most popular app.
You are misunderstanding me.
I am not disagreeing with you, but it's intellectually dishonest to not acknowledge the context of the reality we live in: it used to require genuine talent and skill to use a paid tool to fake images, and now is as easy as entering text on your phone in a free app just describing what you want to see.
This is an exponential escalation of existing problems and technologies.
I never said I was just now worried about fake images. To say it myself: I'm worried about the now non-existent barrier that bad actors no longer need to clear to do whatever they want to do here.
They have devices in them that break over time as all devices do, and those devices have parts and designs that were contemporary before the people working on them today were alive likely with architectural and design decisions that were operationally required back when things were being drafted that no longer make sense to do today. Likely the nuclear materials will be reused, but that's me thinking with my brainbox and not actually a thing I know.
For an example of what happens when we continue to rely on tech that really deserves to be updated and/or replaced, see the United States banking sector as compared to basically everywhere else.
Seems reasonable enough. Dude's allowed to have opinions I think are bad, and seems to get over his bad opinions in the face of much worse opinions, inasmuch as a direct statement from the person in question can show that.
They've got you covered there too: https://www.printables.com/model/962134-500-cigarettes-adapter
I don't have any idea what you're on about and I want to call you rude.
Fellow HP fan, I was kinda weirded out by the whole "free access to unforgivable curses" and "canonically killing people" and the honestly kinda disheartening stance on goblin personhood but man flying around the grounds is so fun
Without the shared subtext of visible or audible tone, the text you write is the text we read.
But it’s still sterile though
Not the way I use it, it's not.
I have fond opinions of Veggietales. From my recollection, it seems to be a genuine attempt at Christlike programming instead of Christian programming, if that makes sense.
The creator has a reasonable head and has some public opinions that I vehemently agree with. I'm not currently aware of any reason that Veggietales should be considered weird Christian propaganda, even if it is Christian propaganda.
To give context to my saying that, I grew up with friends that made me hide my harry potter book so that it wouldn't get me banned from their house as a literal spawn of satan. Veggietales was absolutely the best programming they watched, hands down, from every aspect.
Doesn't help me see what the weather will be like in a few hours or days from now, which is the whole point of forecasting.
Lemme know when you're done, I'll take up the next shift.
If we're talking about Digital Rights Management, steam is acting in that role to manage your digital rights on the steam platform. They could allow you to download games without requiring an account login or client download, and they instead do not. They could allow you to download free games from the client or the website without requiring a login, and they do not.
GOG's website is also DRM for the same reason. It won't allow you to download games that aren't licensed digitally to your account, including free games. GOG has DRM-free games and installers fairly universally beyond that first check, and that means you can download them from alternative sources, but downloading from GOG 100% requires interacting with DRM.
To be direct: I don't care that Steam is DRM because it's minimally invasive and I currently trust Valve enough to use an operating system made by them as a daily driver. There are very few companies I'd say that about.
The Steam client is DRM at its core, even if it's acceptable DRM. I think it's important not to allow your thinking to shift from the reality that it is DRM just because it's personally acceptable.
I don't mind it, I will simp for Valve all day long, and if a company requires you to log in to an account with their server to check whether your account has the digital entitlement to then allow you to access a file or not, that's digital rights management.