Didn’t some private citizen just get sentenced to like 25 years in prison for hitting a mother and child? And this guy just gets nothing? I get they aren’t the same case, no idea how badly hurt these kids are, but the mother and child were killed in the store I’m referencing, and that private citizen was doing over 100mph… But that went to trial and the 25 years was middle of the road sentencing for the charges brought. This guy doesn’t even have charges brought? Does he even get his license suspended? I assume not without charges…

They getting qualified immunity while off the clock now too, wtf?

Well DUH…

Same. And I think it is even more ridiculous when you have to rely on their hardware too. They control the hardware drivers AND the OS upstream, how do you exist if not by their permission?

Out of curiosity, where they newer nvidia cards, like 4 or 5 series, using 12VHPWR?

I am shocked constantly by the number to tech-savvy people in my circle that still use chrome… Like, they complain that ublock origin “died” and I can’t help but stare slack-jawed at them…

Wouldn’t be surprised if someone is pulling strings to push this case specifically to force a court to decide how different a “likeness” needs to be so that all the AI production companies have a line in the sand they can cuddle up close to and still feel like they get to keep all their profits out of the hands of greedy actors and safely in the hands of hard-working producers and CEOs… Whether that is paying her to file the suit, or paying Cameron to have said it in an interview to give reason, or hell, both.

It was kind, but the way he said it felt very polished, canned, and almost artificial.

This makes me think maybe at least a little on the spectrum, but definitely socially awkward, and doesn’t want to run afoul of HR. Having an approved and appropriate response on deck for when a direct report calls in or something is very handy in that situation.

I think they just made their post title the same as the linked article title, which generally seems to be the accepted “thing to do” on Lemmy. The OP also hasn’t said anything in the comments - seems like a lot of posts are just bots linking to maybe-relevant articles?

Considering the linked article is dated from the 4th, where it went from nearly 28 down to 23.40, that’s nearly 20% drop.

That’s a fun theory, but the discs have so little to do with most gaming these days anyway I think you are just as likely to get hosed due to some licensing or account bullshit with a disc as you are without. Seems less and less games work just from the disc every year.

And they didn’t even give it the same handle to show any kind of continuity that might at least allude to all those handles being representative of a shovel… Love the meme making fun of AI has a “Made with AI” badge on it… wtf are we doing?

It’s worse, that was when the industry realized we weren’t using our phones how they wanted, so they had to start cramming this shit in our cars and door bells and thermostats because they couldn’t reliably monitor the entire populace just through phones. We (corpos) need smart smoke alarms (surveillance devices), legally mandated in every room of the house, to keep us safe (monitored) 24/7.

Additionally, it’s been proven in scientific study time and time again that giving people enough money to meet their needs significantly reduces crime and costs significantly less money than the “traditional” approach like inflating police budgets. Literally giving people cash money reduces crime better than any other way you could use the money.

I’m tired of people thinking this is commonly used parlance because of some Microsoft file explorer choice and not because that is how it was taught in Comp Sci classes all over the world for decades, even before Microsoft. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this isn’t really anything to do with them… The new SI standards for Kibi et al were standardized around 1999, and college CS classes were still teaching without using them at all up to at least 5 years later when I attended. And the tech boom of the early 2000s was rife with “well actually, you should know” misinformation spread by news and media outlets and “a kilobyte is actually 1024 bytes” was part of that. Then you get wrapped up in the awful awful corporate lies spread by ISPs, RAM, and Storage drive companies that will happily exploit the confusion of the consumer to their advantage every fucking time, trying to hide behind “bits vs bytes” confusion…

IMO, when you are talking about corporation, them wanting to do something and them being forced to do something are basically the same thing. They only respond to financial incentives. If there is financial incentive for doing something, then they will “want to” start doing that thing. If there is financial pressure to not do a thing, then they will “want to” not do that thing (assuming only that the financial pressure outweighs the financial gains of not doing the thing).

Hardware drivers is a big problem in the mobile market. Reverse engineering drivers for every possible piece of hardware is too much work. We really need hardware manufacturers to want to open source their drivers so that open source OSes can work on a broad range of hardware.

Everyone I knew with a PS1 had a mod chip in it to play copied games. Cracks and CD-keys for PC games were everywhere online. It was dummy easy to do even before Napster or Kazaa, but those things definitely accelerated it. I remember people in college having pirated copies of photoshop, mathematica, and autocad because they needed them for classes and didn’t have $600-$1000 to shell out on software on top of books - I know that isn’t games, but the principle of pirating them was pretty similar at the time.

Yea, calling it all torrenting, when referring to an era before torrents even existed is wild. Dude is making up their own language about it at this point.

WoW is definitely at the top and it will be hard to unseat it even though I don’t really play anymore. After that It’s likely between Minecraft, Eve Online, or World of Tanks - I don’t actually know. The next one I know a number for is Baldur’s Gate 3 at over 1400 hours, so that’s 5th. I have no idea what order 2, 3, and 4 are though, lol.

Thank you for the info, I will look into it when I get home tonight.