It's called PATRIOTISM!

(Note: I'm not American, so definitely sarcasm :-) )

Just because your life is a shitshow of chaos that requires your focus doesn't mean others don't have the spare capacity to complain about these things.

Who said hording? Hording is the compulsion to accumulate things, especially things you don't use. Wanting to play a game and being unable to isn't hoarding. In fact it's the opposite, it's actively using the thing you bought for its intended purpose.

Speaking of opposites, people with ADHD typically aren't concerned about long term duration of an activity being available and are most likely to just go and do something else.

Like ... do you know what any of the words you used mean?

Because the rights to products exist for potential market re-entry. E.g. if I create the new latest and greatest thing, and remove it from market I retain the right to use said thing a year later. Just because it's not on sale doesn't give others the right to the creation.

Now that's purely copyright / licensing issue. There's further questions of what constitutes a product and what constitutes a temporary license. But the copyright argument is barking up the wrong tree. Copyright is given for a (way too long) duration, not for a product life.

Yes. Good examples can be found the world over: Media advertising standards, financial standards, heck the entire engineering profession is self regulated by its own industry. Many reporting standards are as well. As are quite a few product safety standards (the overall "don't kill people" is law, but how to achieve that is mostly driven by industry self-regulation in many parts of the world).

Now there's plenty of examples where it also didn't work, and those often get followed up with actual laws, but there are still plenty of examples in industry where industry codes self regulated. For example when America shat itself in 2008 Australia was largely insulated from the same problems due to the Australian Banking Association's (industry body) governance code that effectively banned the kind of sub-prime finance dumb-fuckery in the country years earlier.

Want another example? It's not legally required in most of Europe to label vegan products, yet industry has adopted ISO 23662 despite it not being required by any law to do so. And while we're talking about standards, the harmonisation of electrical standards in the EU was almost entirely industry driven, and except for subtleties of specific wiring rules for examples in houses, most electrical standards maintained by CENELEC are entirely voluntary yet followed throughout all industry.

When it's codified into the highest law of the land and doesn't work, and suggestions to do so voluntarily can't work to the point of being laughable, what options do we have left?

There's always Nancy Reagan's catchphrase: Just Say No.

Any particular game is expendable. You won't miss out on anything. Games don't even have the network effects and lockin that you get with other types of software; it's a part of the economy where Just Saying No is easiest of all.

Don't like the quality? Don't spend your money. They have no power over us except what we give them. Stop being so selflessly altruistic when it comes to actively supporting your own abuse.

It's so damn easy, and there's already hundreds of years worth of hassle-free game-playing available to spend the few remaining seconds of your life on.

Why do you think they would stop in their tracks every time there's a power or cell tower outage?

Yes, there have been some issues with widespread power outages causing the cars to get confused because things don't look right, but that's a bug, not expected behavior.

And although they won't have fares if they have no cell service, there's no reason to expect them to stop being able to drive. They will do whatever they normally do when they have no fare — find a place to park. Other than for learning about pickups and dropoffs, robotaxis use cellular networks only when they break down, to request remote driving assistance (i.e. relatively rarely).

I haven't seen that in years. The best you get these days is when you run Firefox an an update magically happened there's a tab that opens to let you know what's new.

I didn't write any bug reports, mainly because by the time I get to it someone else already has. And they still get treated like shit and marked WONTFIX. So yeah I may come across as a grump cunt at times, but it's not me Mozilla team is hating on.

The problem with morals is that they vary between people. Privacy just isn't a concern for many, myself included. Oh noes Google knows I am posting on Slashdot right now, whooop de do. It didn't actually affect me beyond targeted (blocked) advertising. On the flip side Firefox's UI hanging affects me. Pointlessly screwing with keyboard shortcuts that have been in place for 20 years affects me.

Morals don't me use my computer. Recalibrating the compass doesn't change anything.

Memory doesn't just leak from the act of having tabs, it leaks from specifics of what is being done in the tabs. Firefox sucks at for example releasing memory from expired DOM objects. You want to run a comparison, open up 1 tab, just one in Firefox and one in Chrome and go to reddit. Start scrolling. Scroll for a while the same distance on both and see which one is using what memory. I'll wager that one tab is using an order of magnitude more than your 372.

I've written it here in 3 separate replies already. I'm not writing it out again. https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

It's not always ignorance it's often just apathy. I know plenty of people who don't use adblockers not because they don't know they exist, but because they just don't give a shit.

Can we use these glasses, or are they just as worthless as Google's and Meta's, where they choose everything for you, and you'll likely get a DMCA complaint if you try to use them for your own purposes?

If not, then $21.95 is about as much as these people should be charging for the product, which is obviously intended to get its revenue through proprietary software/services sales.

Oh, yeah, I just realized that this is an expense on the Roku side, so the taxes would cancel out. Ugh.

Then yes, you're correct that there's no possible way for consolidating two businesses to save money without direct job loss, other than perhaps reducing payouts to external companies for things that they both do (e.g. accountants).

That sounds like fun, if your idea of fun is for increased latency with every DNS query which either isn't cached or has had cache expired.

There's a reason DNS is setup in a tree structure.

The reality though is your concerns are minor. There's very little that can be done with a DNS query and an IP address, especially in a world of dynamic and shared IP addresses. The risk of someone tracking you via DNS queries is quite minor to the point where it's borderline not done (it's like joining an F1 race in a Ford model T, the process is outdated to the point of irrelevance).

There's good reasons to not use your ISP's server (bypass local censorship, and bypassing the one group who could actually tie your IP address to a meaningful account), but there's virtually no privacy implications to using Google's or Cloudflare's. Now... on the other hand ... actual server requests that make it to their destination are actively dangerous. Tracking pixels, fingerprinting, javascript, and a whole world of shit that is actually serious can be blocked by blocking certain DNS queries from ever resolving. But you don't need to go trotting through the internet hitting root servers for that.

Yes. Plenty. Firefox seems to have problems releasing memory in off screen DOM objects resulting in an endless memory leak. It also has a tendency to fully lock up the UI when a web page displays more than 3 pre-loaded video elements at once - a problem that is resolved by minimising and restoring the window using windows hotkeys. All in all you can't do something as mind boggling complex as scrolling through reddit without hitting some breaking bug.

It has a problem with cache release meaning your cache will grow endlessly and fill up the disk space if you're using an webapp and don't close the tab.

That's just the bugs I come across. Then there's their distain for users. Who can forget a few years ago re naming the menu item "Copy Link Loc(A)tion" to "Copy (L)ink" because apparently one was too confusing for user. Apparently they have no problem fucking with their entire user's base's 20 years of developed muscle memory while also extending a middle finger to right handed people who used to not need to take their hand off their mouse to use a commonly used keyboard shortcut.

Oh but there's no "a" in "Copy Link" they said as a justification. When I pointed out that "Preview Link" doesn't have a J in it, "Split view" doesn't have an M in it, and "Inspect" doesn't have a Q in it, they quickly locked the thread.

Bonus points: There was a plugin that restored the broken functionality, but it was from an unvetted Chinese developer and hurrah now all the users who liked their muscle memory ended up with malware.

Sorry but if they tell their users they can go fuck themselves, then they deserve the same reaction from their users. I still try to like Firefox, I still have it installed and see every so often if it is actually usable or not, but god fucking damnit this is a toxic relationship.