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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

My understanding is that this would force games to be sold as either a good (lasts forever) or a service (lasts a specific, advertized amount of time). It does not prevent service games from existing, it just stops them being sold as goods with an unspecified expiration date. The problem is consumers are uninformed about the lifetime of the game they are purchasing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah, leg day gets a lot harder when you're floating. Not to mention they're missing all the normal walking around and lifting gravity forces us to do...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

How did this company leak 2.9 billion people's info, including SSNs, when the population of the US is only ~350M?

Is "National Public Data" collecting info on everyone internationally? So many questions...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There's even more use cases that come up, like being able to use emoji and other fancy symbols anywhere unicode is supported. So you can even program with them. People have taken that idea to the extreme just for fun: https://www.emojicode.org/

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Would you rather send an entire JPEG over text message for an emoji? Or just 4 bytes of unicode right inline where you want it? Unicode having a standard set of emoji is actually incredibly useful and reduces complexity. I guess it would disincentivize 👏 emoji 👏 spam 👏 to use JPEGs tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't really see the problem with restricting e-bike power. You can still go faster than 20mph if you pedal. I think what you really want is a motorcycle. They make those in electric form too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of what's driving these decisions is the mass switch to subscription models. Everything's designed so you have to keep coming back to the manufacturer.

It used to be making a high quality, standalone product meant you could spend less on customer service and RMA's. Now they've figured out they can sell you service contracts and make money off you being locked in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

How would carburetor DRM make any sense? Those are super common to take apart and rebuild or replace (like step 1 of every old restoration).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Technically water is just Hydrogen-oxide.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I hope this customer is being charged for these orphaned systems. They'll care more if it's costing them money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it was assumed based on your use of command line and unix-like paths such as ~/Desktop, which do not work in Windows Command Prompt. (Powershell has aliases for unix commands like ls, so unix paths do work there)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm on the side of [email protected] here, since I read the comments before the article. Without the articles' context I had no idea if this meant all-time usage, per year, or per month.

Since the link is right there though, which says per year, it's really not a huge deal.

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