schipelblorp

Meh. I started on usenet. Reddit had some fun little cultural things, but I just like yakking online in forums; not gonna particularly miss it.

And how is putting up barriers going to play out? Fewer users will bother, and overcoming barriers like that is more than worth it if it means you get to run your 1000-bot army.

Crisis actors. Spez is going for the long con.

It’s in the EULA for every piece of software,** including physical.**

Bolded for those that aren't getting it.

Even if you buy a disc, that does not guarantee you can play the game in the future. Often games have to be authenticated on install, and if that authenticating server is no longer online, you can't play the game--even if you have all the files required to play it.

Europe had a whole "Stop Killing Games" initiative that would require companies to unlock games they are no longer supporting, but that mysteriously vanished from the legislative docket after meetings with game companies that organizers weren't invited to.

Stay mad, but you need to be mad at the right things.

Alloys are intrinsically liberal. Keep metals pure!

We need to be having conversations in dark parking lots, away from cameras, with people who present AI slop decks at meetings.

Yup. Netflix will advertise its shows to you on the ad-free* tier, but say they're not ads.

Corpos figured out that onerous regulations can keep out competitors who haven't achieved the economies of scale to pay for compliance.

They will just be kept out of the market in the US. Oligarchs gonna oligarchy.

Two things:

Sadly, my USB port completely borked, so that's off the table. I use KDE-something-or-other to txfr files over my internetless wifi.

Second, I did look into it, and even on my Graphene OS phone, the USB tether is treated identically to the hot spot; that is to say, the carrier can detect you're connecting a device and there is no workaround other than paying the cellular provider for the privilege of using your connection as they see fit.

The only hassle is the tranfer, and that's set & forget.

And I don't spend $50-100/mo (wifi + streaming)to waste time channel surfin.

There's a small profit to be made administering a plan on a common carrier while the bigger operators. rake in the big money from idiots permanently leasing a fucking cell phone.