GeekyNerdyNerd @ GeekyNerdyNerd @sh.itjust.works

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Ah yes lemme just shell out $50 dollars a month or more just so I can use my steam deck to play multiplayer games over the slow and spotty mobile network that exists where I live. That's a totally reasonable thing to do.

Or I can just continue to pay 15 bucks a month and use my steam deck offline while still getting decent enough service and enough data to do everything I'd actually be able to reliably do on a mobile network outside of a large city.

Mobile networks ain't reliable and not every plan permits the mobile hotspot feature to function. That was my entire point with that comment.

That when when your device is unlocked your carrier still gets to decide if that particular feature is even functional.

That assumes hotspot is included in your wireless plan,, and it isn't included in a lot of the cheapest ones.

The German government literally ruled otherwise. You are objectively, legally,, and morally incorrect.

That logic is what will make verification cans a reality.

Do you have Firefox's tracker blocking enabled? That can block some advertising related code and as such will also get detected as an adblocker. I've had that be the issue for other websites that block ad blockers in the past before I stopped being willing to ever turn Ublock Origin off.

Won't be the case for much longer if the EU gets their way, I'm glad to say.

Yeah r/privacy was toxic towards n00bs back on reddit as well. Sorry you got blasted for asking a question.

Tbh I'm surprised she hasn't retconned Voldemort to be transgender.

Unless you are religious and believe in eternal torment after death, death isn't cruel, it's simply an end to life, a permanent return to nonexistence no more or less cruel than having never been born.

Additionally, while they aren't exactly wrong in that going from nonexistence to existence results in an infinite increase in potential for suffering, that holds true for joy/happiness/pleasure.

Imo bringing someone into being is not cruel nor wonderful, not moral nor immoral. It simply is.

Antinatalism is a more deranged branch of eugenics. It's not simply "promoting eugenics" it's a belief that giving birth is the greatest evil one can inflict upon a child and the world at large.

That they'd clearly see us as subhuman isn't surprising given that they at best want our entire species to voluntarily go extinct. Their entire worldview is best summed up as gentle genocide is good.

Same reason why oil prices keep going up even as demand drops, the price of oil is largely determined by OPEC+ and they will cut production until prices rise to where they want them, and the more they have to cut production the higher the prices have to be to offset their fixed costs. More oil = more total revenue = lower price floor for profits.

It takes a while for various other industries to shift away from burning oil and gas, but when that happens the oil industry will be totally screwed.

I'm not so sure that they'd be necessarily screwed even then, I think it will depend upon what direction plastic demand and plastic production goes in. The majority of plastics still need to be made from petrochemicals, and the majority of plastics have to be virgin simply due to the inherent limitations on their recyclability.

Sure, the industry won't be as large as today but unless we see bioplastics completely replace petrochemical plastics or simply see plastics completely abandoned (that'll never happen, plastics are simply too useful to ditch entirely.) It will still exist in some form simply because it will be necessary for plastic production.

There's Valve's custom Distro they built for the steamdeck, unfortunately they haven't fully released it yet, for the time being it's only available via steamdeck recovery software.

And with the direction the Republican base is going, whatever party replaces the GoP is probably gonna think Hitler's biggest problem was his accent.

I'm 99% sure it won't have much of a positive impact in sales simply because the majority of ebook buyers don't care about DRM anyway, only the minority of us bother to strip DRM. So while it wouldn't be a large drop in sales I do think it would still be a drop. It might not be enough of a loss for them to care, and tbh as you said it would probably only result in a mild increase in piracy while the majority either do library loans or switch to paper.

I don't think that those of us who care enough to jump through the hoops to strip DRM are just gonna roll-over and accept that the publishers can yoink our entire libraries whenever they see fit, but I do admit most don't care. However those that don't care aren't stripping DRM anyway, they are just relying on the ability to redownload their books whenever they wish from Amazon/Kobo/Nook.

Yeah if nodrm is ever killed by a DMCA action I'd be turning to my local library and Zlibrary (or whatever the closest alternative is today l don't know if Zlibrary still exists or not) exclusively.

If the book publishers are smart they won't kill drm stripping software as nobody who strips drm is gonna keep buying ebooks if they can't do that, the people that don't care already just buy their ebooks because it's stupidly convenient compared to piracy, and often not that expensive anyway.

It's probably a result of wireless interference somewhere between the deck and the desktop. I also had a really bad experience with remote play and sunlight/moonlight before I hardwired my desktop to the router via an Ethernet cable. Just making that one part of the chain wired completely solved my issues.

Well I use the nodrm plugin and Calibre to strip the drm from all my Amazon ebook purchases and back them up both on my own machine and to the cloud storage provider I use. Only reason I buy Amazon's ebooks is because they are normally the easiest to strip of drm, and very few ebook authors don't use drm.

Physical books are certainly nice, but id rather save the space/weight for things I cherish instead of things I merely own so I can consume their content whenever I'd like. Books are for reading, not for showing off.