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Also wtf is with that website? "Data Tracking Consent required for free use"? I'm like 99% sure that's a wilful and deliberate GDPR violation.

Oracle has been a castle built on sand for a long time. Their entire business model hinged on pulling off massive pricing bait-and-switches with large companies, and there's only so many of those you can do before people get wise to it.

I don't know how old "abc" is, but it's particularly painful for those of us who remember $100 going from getting us a 32Kb RAM pack, to 1Mb, to 64Mb, to 256Mb, to 1Gb, to 16Gb, and then just fucking stop for ten years, and now going back to no longer being able to even get us 16Gb any more. It's like stuff stopped getting better a decade ago, and everything is being made worse by the greed of rich arseholes

Not all reiterative spamlike garbage is clanker slop. Some of it is deliberately written to prioritize SEO over respecting the reader or producing anything of quality. Either way thanks for giving me the heads-up not to give them any of my time.

Modern games rarely even fit on one disc

That's deliberate on their part too, though. New storage formats have been coming out once a decade going back to the dawn of electronic computing. Pioneer demonstrated a 400Gb optical disc exactly 8 years ago to the day. The technology exists, they're just choosing not to mass market it.

The massive post-install downloads thing is also a commercial decision, not an immutable fact.

You say that as though corporations are fucking everything up for their own amusement, rather than in the service of making sure the "regular American" gets their luxuries for cheap.

I have to occasionally remind myself that some awful people go to church for the same reason sick people go to hospital. They can tell there's something not right.

I was once at a massive global company that seemed to actively encourage it. Access control in the building was super tight and we weren’t allowed on each others’ floors, had separate break rooms, the lot.

To the manufacturer? Pennies. It’s made of the same stuff DVDs are. They’re only expensive to the consumer because the entire industry hates the idea of them.

Also, the record high temperature in Singapore (1 degree north of the equator) is 9 degrees Celsius lower (37C) than France's record (46C).

What's rarely communicated clearly enough is that "warming" means "more energy". If it had been called something like "atmospheric energy buildup" from the start, maybe there'd be fewer people saying dumbshit like "so much for global warming" every snowstorm.

The astonishing part is how they manage to both be overly heavy-handed on moderation and STILL keep floating a fuckton of racism and other bigotry to the top.