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Well I went to look because that option has always been there as far back as I can recall, so I assumed the exact opposite: it's something they had recently broken.

But, as far as I can tell, once you get to the check out step you can pick pay in full or apple card installments, so I'm just confused as to who this didn't work for, and why it didn't. (I'm not doubting that apple is perfectly willing to do this kind of fuckery, just that it doesn't look like it applies to everyone everywhere all the time.)

Ads 1 of 6

...what?

I've been sailing around too long I guess, but six ads? In one commercial break? What in the hell are they doing.

Like, that's worse than broadcast TV, which is you know, free. As in not something you're paying for.

The announcement video they had a while ago made this look fun, AND it lasts for more than the week they usually do.

...I should probably buy the new expansion or something at some point but man, $50 for a video game.

Well, it's clear they've spared no expense.

Yeah, maybe could have been clearer.

I was very vividly remembering a VERY SMART client I had a while ago that had like 600 rules blocking all manner of ports and protocols and IPs, and wondering why everything performed like dogshit.

Sure, it'll go until it hits the first match, but if you have enough rules, you're going to be churning through an awful lot of cpu getting everything to the first match.

OP may not have been intending to do something quite that uh, special, but people do funky things.

Apple only showed the interest-free financing option in Safari.

I wonder what they're talking about?

That felt wrong and so I went to check with Firefox+Windows, and sure enough the 0% interest option on my apple card shows up as expected on stuff.

Not a lawyer, but honestly, both of these takes are probably not correct.

I'd say that most fedi-services fall more into the 'can I make someone delete an email' GDPR category (tldr: probably not, but maybe) with a dose of the 'this service is for personal/non-commercial use and includes messaging and social media' exemption.

This of course won't work if you're taking money or doing commercial activity but at that point you're a business and should consult your lawyers to ensure your compliance. (And if you can't, then maybe don't be in that business.)

I wouldn't want to be the one to spend the billion dollars to litigate that, but frankly if you're not in the EU, and not a business, then the person demanding removal would have to take you to court to force compliance (assuming you didn't just do it so you don't have to deal with a grumpy person) which is... unlikely.

The much more horrifying interpretation is that the data controller, processor, and sub-processor language comes into effect and everyone needs to sign written agreements with every other fediserver to be even remotely in compliance.

D2 and Fortnite are keeping me on windows instead of something like Bazzite, so I'm right there with you.

The annoying thing is that battleeye does exist for Linux, but the devs would have to implement it and they're just.... not.

Eh, that's the only way to use the internet at this point anyways. I'm a one-stupid-statement-and-blocked person already and it's made my life a lot easier.

Don't do angry replies, just roll my eyes and add them to a blocklist. Much better on the blood pressure.

Fair, I brainfarted on that one.

I have an Ally, which is running Windows, which does run Destiny 2 and Fortnite and League and whatever else the steamdeck doesn't because of rootkit anticheat.

So I'll restate: you can run almost anything that doesn't need malware to allow you to connect to their servers.

Jeez as someone who's done a lot of contracting/consulting work I can hear this guy in a LOT of prior clients.

You know, the ones that would get F-U pricing or fired shortly after starting work and more often than not end up in court over me not getting paid.

They don't present a sane, rational, normal, competent, functional business aura so much as a whiny petulant little child that wants it all nooooow, and doesn't get that hiring someone means you get some of their time, not 80 hour weeks until your "just debugging" is done.

Also it's never just debugging, because if it was a developer who COULD do it building it, then it's a developer who is good enough to debug it too. If they can't debug it, then they almost certainly don't have the skills to actually do the project in the first place but I digress.

Wonder if this is a side effect of theater ticket sales crashing like they're made by Boeing?

IIRC, it's something like 30% lower, so they have to make up this revenue somewhere, so PPV/PVOD/whatever prices are up and I'd be shocked if they stopped here.

And it'll play nearly every video game made since the invention of video games, which is a huge win.

Want to play Diablo? Sure, no problem. Destiny 2? Yep, that's fine. Italian Plumber and Friends Kart Racing? Why yes, that works great.

And yeah, don't have to support a company that hates you only slightly more than it hates people playing their older games.

refuse to go into caves in Skyrim

Well there's giant spiders in those caves, so he's got the right idea.

(I do not like spiders, I do not like giant spiders, I do not like giant surprise spiders the most.)

Oooor it's a change being made by Meta to ensure that all your contact details are entered into a platform owned by them (since the underlying phone OSes have made scraping that data harder in recent versions), so they can more efficiently mine your data so Zuck can afford another yacht.

I'd like to think it's a user benefit, but I mean, historically.... it wont't be. (Yes they claim it's encrypted, but I don't trust Meta one bit to still not have some way to use this data for their benefit.)

Oligarchs gonna oligarch, so this is infuriating but not surprising.

old enough to remember that when you purchased a physical copy of a game, you got the game in it’s entirety in perpetuity

There's a lot of conflation about the method of delivery vs what you actually bought.

You've always been buying a license to use the software in perpetuity, and because there was no other option, you got the software that was licensed delivered to you on physical media.

The only thing that's changed is we've stopped doing physical media and now do digital distribution which isn't a thing you can put on a bookshelf.

And then we layered DRM on top of it, and so you are in a position where they actually can revoke your license, and yank the software out from under you, which is another lovely new "improvement" that didn't exist prior.

even GOG is technically a licens, shure you get a offline installer

IMO, that's a major difference. Like, a crucial and critical difference.

If a game is yanked from steam, it's gone. I paid for a license and ended up with absolutely zero.

If it's removed from GOG, and I have the installer, then I have the installer. I still have what I paid for, and not a big bucket of fuck you.

...that sounds amazing. Perhaps I should go investigate Bluesky, heh.

Agreed: commercialized services want everyone and don't want to ban anyone for anything unless they absolutely have to because there's a risk of legal complications if they do not do so. (I worked that shit for a long time, and ugh, did not enjoy having to have arguments over a user's "value" vs their behavior.)

And as someone who is nominally running "public" fediverse services (though the user base I've served has been minimal because I'm not advertising for users and have outright rejected basically everyone who's just wandered in, lol) I'm 100% on the this-is-mine bandwagon.

I'm paying for it, I'm maintaining it, and thus what I say goes and if you strongly dislike it, then, well, oh no, too bad. Find somewhere else to be.

One outlier of this uh... moderation challenge? has always been Something Awful. $10 for an account, and they will happily ban your ass without thinking too hard about it if you break rules.

It's basically the last remaining bastion of old-internet-forums that are still useful and worthwhile and I'm 100% convinced it's because it's not free, and that your ass will be rapidly ejected if you're a dick regardless of you paying or not. Put an actual incentive (if small) on not being a complete shithead.