I remember renting a game, and it was on a high density 5.25" inch floppy at a whopping 1.2MB; but or family computer only had a standard density 5.25".

So we went to the neighbors house, who was one of the first computer nerds (I’m not sure he’s still alive now), who copied the game to a 3.5" high density 1.44MB disk, then we returned the rental because we couldn’t play it on the 1.2 MB HD 5.25" floppy.

… And that was the first time I was party to piracy.

I have never noted anyone’s username regularly on Reddit. Unless it’s because they consistently had terrible comments, then they would stand out as either a troll or an idiot; honestly, it could go either way with many of them.

Lemmy is small enough that I see some of your names daily.

Y’all better stay off my lawn.

They desperately need real users.

They have plenty of fake ones.

I had a similar experience with Samsung. I had a bunch of evo 870 SSDs up and die for no reason. Turns out, it was a firmware bug in the drive and they just need an update, but the update needs to take place before the drive fails.

I had to RMA the failures. The rest were updated without incident and have been running perfectly ever since.

I’d still buy Samsung.

I didn’t lose a lot of data, but I can certainly understand holding a grudge on something like that. From the other comments here, hate for Seagate isn’t exactly rare.

Why do you wound me like this?

I too, am old.

I gave up. I own my name as a domain.

So if my name was John Doe, as an example, my domain would be Johndoe.com and my email would be John@Johndoe (dot) com.

My name isn’t John Doe.

Gmail is cool and all, but it’s pretty sweet to have my custom domain name and email.

The domain I really want is just my last name, so I can be firstname@lastname (dot) com.

Unfortunately my last name isn’t uncommon and the last time I checked, the squatters on the domain were asking like $3k usd for it.

All kind of nope on that.

Honestly, between Batman and iron man, aside from the obvious gadgets that don’t exist, it’s more believable than any other “superhero” story out there. A rich guy dresses up in a costume and beats up “criminals” (the poors) for fun and entertainment, rather than use their vast wealth to fund programs that would actually help society.

Add in a bit of masochism, and that’s basically America in a nutshell.

Beat people when they have no option other than to rob, or steal, just to survive.

They can where I live. While I might “own” the land, I’m in Canada and there’s a very specific and technical legal definition, I never “own” anything. The land is owned by the crown, and we lowly peons get to “buy” (or lease in perpetuity for a one time set cost, plus property taxes every year) the land we live on.

The Crown, and by extension, the government acting on behalf of the crown, can do whatever the fuck they want, including telling you what you can, and cannot do with your land, and whether you can turn it into a trash heap.

Many other places are the same, though, not as technically/legally screwed; I don’t have to look any further than city zoning to know that similar (in effect, not implementation) rules exist for everyone. Zoning means you can’t just turn your plot of land into an industrial manufacturing operation because you feel like it. That’s the government telling you what you can (or cannot) do with your property. There’s plenty more examples and rules that limit people’s freedoms as to what they can do with “their” property, if you do any research at all.

Don’t be such a spoon.

Bad take, honestly.

It says you have the right to a job; therefore if you want one, you should be able to get one.

Americans have the right to bear arms, not everyone is walking around strapped. It’s just not the case… And yes, there’s many that do carry a firearm when they’re out and about doing normal daily tasks, but it most certainly isn’t everyone. You have the right to do it, you are not forced to do a thing you have the right to do.

Equating the right to a job with a claim that jobs are necessary is simply false.

The part that I hate about it is obliging future homeowners to participate.

I get that the obligation was the main reason why HOA types wanted to build HOAs, but I’ll never live under an HOA. As soon as I’m aware there’s an HOA involved, I’m out. Burn the paperwork. I’m not buying it.

… Not that I plan on moving ever again.

My city has bylaws for that sort of thing. I can’t let my grass turn into a jungle either. That’s also a bylaw. Shoveling snow into the street? Guess what, bylaw.

Don’t need an HOA full of overbearing Karen’s to Lord over me about what color I painted my garage on top of the fairly loose bylaws that I also need to abide by.

At least with bylaws they’re enforced by public workers, not Karen from next door.

HOAs are full of crazies.

Cities are usually fine… Not all cities though.

I hope the little guy got all fixed up.

Thanks, I hate it.

My guess is hand/got holds for climbing up the cliff face. Basically an outdoor ladder.

I might be wrong

I’ve lived long enough to know that I need to have a system of: a place for everything and everything in its place.

… Now if I could only implement that, that’d be great…

There’s always the exceptions, but they’re rare, and getting more rare.

The vast majority of works are owned by a few major corporations, even smaller, more indie games often get published through a major studio, which then retains a good amount of the profit. Almost all media, TV and movies, is owned by one of a handful of companies. Music is largely the same.

It goes the same way for so many other things too. It’s not just games and media.

There are always going to be exceptions but on the whole, it’s vastly more likely/common that the people profiting from something is a large, faceless organization, which only answers to their shareholders.

The only damage that exists from piracy is to the copyright holders profits…

Since the copyright holder is usually a corporation that is owned by shareholders, the majority of which are richer than all of us combined, ask me if I give a shit and I will show you my field of shits to give, and you will see that it is barren.

Eat the rich. Or Luigi them… I don’t care.

Jokes on you. They just dilute the royalty payment among all the artists you’ve streamed, so Spotify’s cut isn’t really bring affected.

Fun right?