Comment Re:[Movie trailer voice] (Score 1) 84
Nail polish is even easier and more effective. And as a bonus you can do thinner layers for when you want some visibility still.
Black wax.
Submission + - The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (bbc.co.uk)
Alain Williams writes: Can a company take away something you've already paid for?
In the world of online video games, some already do. Publishers can decide to switch off a game's servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable.
Stop Killing Games, a growing consumer rights campaign started by American YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging that practice.
In January, the group submitted a petition featuring nearly 1.3 million signatures to the European Commission, triggering a public hearing in the European Parliament in April. What began as an online campaign is now awaiting a decision from one of the EU's most powerful institutions.
Scott's campaign began following an announcement from the major studio Ubisoft, saying it would shut down the online-only racing game The Crew in 2024.
The French company said it was taking the game, which attracted more than 12 million players during its lifetime, offline, citing "upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints".
In the world of online video games, some already do. Publishers can decide to switch off a game's servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable.
Stop Killing Games, a growing consumer rights campaign started by American YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging that practice.
In January, the group submitted a petition featuring nearly 1.3 million signatures to the European Commission, triggering a public hearing in the European Parliament in April. What began as an online campaign is now awaiting a decision from one of the EU's most powerful institutions.
Scott's campaign began following an announcement from the major studio Ubisoft, saying it would shut down the online-only racing game The Crew in 2024.
The French company said it was taking the game, which attracted more than 12 million players during its lifetime, offline, citing "upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints".
Comment Military Installation Development Authority? (Score 1) 23
Seems odd that a Military Installation Development Authority would be authorizing data centers, but here's an article from the Salt Lake City Tribune: https://www.sltrib.com/news/po...
(Article is paywalled, but the first few paragraphs, which are free, gives some background).
Comment Re:First post! (Score 2) 25
i fucking hate lithium-ion batteries. every device now has one. phone? battery. headphones? battery. keyboard? battery. flashlight? battery. vape? battery. random piece of shit from amazon that should have taken two aa batteries? somehow also battery. and every one of them comes with an entire list of things you're not supposed to do if you don't want it catching fire.
The whole selling point of solid-electrolyte lithium batteries is that the don't burst into flames if used wrong.
Comment What does the black hole wind smell like ? (Score 1) 22
No, this is not a fart reference as space does have a smell.
However: the thought of fart smell made me write this comment.
Comment F*ck the BSA (Score 1) 85
(Just like that The Exploited song.)
I thought the BSA's goal was to end software piracy. Mandatory use of open source will certainly achieve that goal!
Comment Re:EU will not Deregulate To Accomplish This (Score 1) 197
Similar experience. Founded and ran a software company in Canada. Sold it to a US company and within six months, it had turned to shit. I was OK because I had my retirement nest egg, but it wasn't great for our customers (many of whom became former customers within a year of the acquisition.)
Comment Good (Score 0) 22
Good.
Google should have been doing that anyway. They are plagiarizing the content for free; the least they could do is actually acknowledge where they got it from.
Comment Re:Or switch to Libre (Score 1) 187
Being that its a mac, Apples Pages and Numbers apps are surprisingly functional software and I havent found many Doc or XLS files it cant open and work with.
Pages can't open old Mac word processing documents from decades ago (anybody remember Clarisworks? MacWrite?)
LibreOffice can.
Comment Class-action lawsuit incoming... (Score 1) 187
If the product was sold with a perpetual license, then this is simply breach of contract and I foresee a class-action lawsuit.
Comment Or switch to Libre (Score 5, Informative) 187
Or dump Microsoft and switch to LibreOffice.
Comment Re:Alternatives (Score 2) 93
Reminds me of The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov.
Comment Well, that's a shock. Not. (Score 3, Informative) 93
It's the classic enshittification cycle, also beloved by drug-dealers.
1. Get users hooked on free or cheap service.
2. Once they're hooked, jack up the price.
Comment Re:Windows? (Score 1) 90
Nobody does AI on Linux so it makes so much more sense to keep playing three legged racing with Microsoft tied to you. NOT.
NVidia has always been tied to MSFT and their Linux software has always looked like it was done by a single NVidia employee after hours in the basement office.
Besides, Windows is sooo 'yesterday' no matter how much Microsoft pays Qualcomm or NVidia to tie themselves up with.
LoB
NVidia has always been tied to MSFT and their Linux software has always looked like it was done by a single NVidia employee after hours in the basement office.
Besides, Windows is sooo 'yesterday' no matter how much Microsoft pays Qualcomm or NVidia to tie themselves up with.
LoB
Comment Re:Why would you want to attract them? (Score 2) 36
Property taxes—paying for fire, police, and emergency services that they will never use, plus some high-paying jobs taking care of it.. For poor counties these are giant revenue sources.
They would be giant revenue sources... unless, of course, they are given tax breaks.
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