snownyte

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck you Intuit. Ha, what're you going to do now? Sue the IRS?

Narrator: They will try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes.

https://imgur.com/MQGJYhV

Sonic 3 came out in 1994.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

...That's because maybe you got them used or something? Like, name me one retail store back then selling games for $5 just out of the blue. I won't wait because you wouldn't come up with anything.

You are mixing used markets with retail prices here. Just stop embarrassing yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

For all we know, could be some fat teenager doing it for the "lulz" or just "winning" by owning them libs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One would and wouldn't be surprised. I just abandoned a texas poker app on mobile and it's sickening to see how many people pay up cheaters just to get billions and even a trillion chips. Then I see them on the table and they always win.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

And once news stopped covering it, that's when shit hit the fan.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

And they'll probably be killed and that'll be that. Yay, China... /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I read all of this and totally agree. I got a good laugh out of the snippet of the comment you pulled about making a radio out of coconuts on a desert island example. Because you know that's pretty damn true.

What I find obnoxious with Linux and always had to this day, was the pretentiousness of some users that will spend any waking minute to browbeat anyone into using Linux. They always show up whenever someone has something to complain about with Microsoft Windows, big or small. Never fails, both ironically and unironically.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, THE moment people realize how much tinkering they'll have to spend time at the terminal for, will turn them away from Linux. Yeah sure you've got the software library manager which is leaps and bounds an improvement. But by and large, you will still do a lot of installing, configuring, troubleshooting and more with the terminal. You're going to be required to know commands and it's going to require a lot of time at the search engine.

And nearly nobody has the patience for that at all. They want a computer and they want the operating system to do everything they want it to do for them. Windows just does that for them and more.

Linux to me, will always be a OS of choice for any laptop new or old that I get. It will never have a sniff at taking over my desktop because I just know that if I ran a Linux OS full-time everyday, that my limits will have been exhausted and I'll be running back to Windows in no time. All because Linux can't do everything I would want it to do, despite the progress it has made and it's progress that shouldn't be scoffed at either considering the long way it has come to be where it is today.

People who proudly proclaim they're going to Linux whenever MIcrosoft shoots their feet off, is just making a rebellious statement. Who knows for real as to how comfortable they'd really be if they were using Linux 24/7.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm on Windows 10 and it hasn't deleted anything I've pirated.

If this was true, my entire music collection, emulated games, the ebooks .etc would be all gone by now and I'd have nothing.

But yet, they remain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You're not even safe from deleting your account.

You delete your account, come back with a new one to find that the suggested people are people you once had as friends or looked at.

Gee, wonder how they know that? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

From what I understand and not trying to read any of the answers to this.

For the large part of the picture, it's about marketing. To market specifically to you that is based on where you've been, what you've bought before and what your interests are. So they know that you don't want to buy or subscribe into things you've no interest in at any capacity. So why not try to goad you into it by using things you're into because of the data collected that's filtered from your interests?

That's probably the only not-so worrisome thing I can think of. It's just a giant distraction and tool to get you to spend and subscribe.

A lot of people don't like to be tracked and having data collected because, we feel it isn't anyone's business in what we do. So, why should it be the business of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Discord, Reddit, Facebook, Firefox .etc to be concerned in what we do?

Aside from marketing, it'd be a lot easier for all of them to pinpoint exactly what we do to feed data to authorities for easier prosecution. Which depends on how you look at it, I just think that if you don't want to attract the attention of authorities who've been given a tip on you without you knowing, don't be a criminal.

All in all really and I'm starting to derail my own explanation, it's a big wiry issue with privacy.

To put it plainly, it's largely for marketing and we really feel it isn't the business of corporations to know what we're doing, if we're knowingly not breaking any laws. Also now that I've thought of it, harvesting so much data increases risk of security breaches that hackers can take. Which means it's going from bad hands to worse off hands because now hackers can just sell our data around in the black market and we wouldn't even know it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Device.

This was an industrial band project that only released one album in 2013. This was made during the time Disturbed was on hiatus and David Draiman got to be a part of something new. Would've been nice to have seen what a second album could've been.

 

Like seriously, where are the current ones at? There's too much trash and clutter posts here.

 

With Lemmy - I can block whomever is bothering me and I will not see their posts ever again. I can see their notifications and they somehow can keep responding to me (which ought to be worked on). But erasing their existence on my end should be a thing when you don't want to deal with them.

Lemmy and other federated spots, allow me to make posts that I would otherwise get faulted for if I tried them on Reddit. Like on AskReddit, they don't like it when you ask a question and try to put something in the message body for clarification or it gets removed.

So you have to spend time making another comment to clarify with the possibility of it not being understood anyways because hey, hindsight users.

The karma system on the fediverse does not necessarily impact how much you can post and where you can post. Probably one of the big differences between Lemmy and Reddit for example. If you had negative karma on Reddit, good luck trying to post anywhere because you'll get nagged with Captcha systems.

And good luck posting anywhere you'd like on different subreddits because they'll just outright remove your posts automatically because an arbitrary karma count wasn't met and no subreddit is transparent about it.

 

I for example, expect him to no longer require nutrition labels to be on packaged and canned foods. We're all just going to have to eat what we can and play it by portion sizes.

I also expect him to roll back and undo safety regulations within the food industry.

I'm pretty sure he's going to roll back just about everything Biden has done.

He'll make sure the filibuster is gone so that everything he wants to do will just be on the express lane.

 

When we sleep, we are technically half-dead. So, wouldn't it be safe to say that everyone currently living has died many times?

 

Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.

 

"Cox did not profit from its subscribers' acts of infringement," judges rule.

 

Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

 

Best Buy will reportedly stop selling physical DVDs in-store and online beginning in 2024, according to CNBC and other media outlets.

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