conciselyverbose

If you don’t immediately throw someone who doesn’t flush off of your property to never return, you’re nasty too.

It’s really not.

In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.

But still declared them liable for the actions of their users.

Bad ruling, just less bad than it could be.

If I put the over/under at 10x male pirate to female, are you taking the under?

(Humans behavious still mostly eludes me though, totally illogical 🤨)

We’re not rational, but there are patterns. If you’re willing to do some reading Thinking: Fast and Slow is beefy, but helps to show some of the patterns of irrationality in a structured way, from one of the leading experts on human behavior. If that’s too much, Thinking in Bets is a nice taster that still is well backed by much of the same research, but is shorter and more accessible.

Absolutely.

They’re exactly the same as the audio being out of sync. It literally makes me want to puke.

If you’re actually hearing impaired I’ll probably tolerate it for you. Though realistically we just won’t watch anything together.

Otherwise I hate you for asking. Nothing makes a show/movie unwatchable more than having the text of what a character is going to say shoved in my face before they say it. I’d rather get kicked in the balls repeatedly than watch shit with subtitles. It’s less severe torture.

If they were to do that, and have cross platform purchases/saves (provided I could make it work reasonably on Linux), I would be way more likely to think about buying games from them.

The PS5 is a nice piece of hardware. You can do a lot of stuff better on PC, but the loading tech is still legit. But I’m not buying multi platform games on PS5 over Steam for a bunch of reasons (steam deck being the biggest, steam input being another, just generally the fact that my PC gives me a lot more future options and modding potential).

Even if they did the UWP locked file shit, being able to bring games from PS5 to Steam Deck to desktop would make them pretty competitive. And I’d start using them regardless for the library I already have.

https://wiki.kavitareader.com/en/faq/external-readers

I keep not getting to it, so can’t vouch for it, but Kavita looks like it’s worth trying.

I know what sub I’m in, and while I don’t pirate anything, I’m not going to argue the ethics at all.

But according to the article, they were literally advertising to customers that they were sling and selling them devices preloaded to look like they were sling. Again, I’m not here to argue the merits of piracy generally. I follow the sub without being a pirate because many of the legal/technical issues around piracy affect anyone who wants to own their media and browse the internet with some level of privacy. But distributors of any of that content aren’t credible if they’re lying to the end users. Lying to tell people you’re actually the real service isn’t cool.

Alphabet doesn’t have to battle it.

If they just had copyright owners use the DMCA process, creators could counterclaim illegitimate takedowns and Google would have no liability for leaving the content up as proscribed by the claim process.

They choose to do their far more aggressive alternate system instead. It’s not out of any obligation or legal exposure.

Thanks for this. I was unaware, and that sounds like it has potential.

No actual Disney princesses? What a letdown.

While it can be used to hide a bad game, it’s more of a general marketing thing in the era of trashy algorithm driven content consumption.

If everyone high profile uploads their review of your game on the same day, it hyper-accelerates the domination of those algorithms and everyone broadly interested in the space you’re in is going to be exposed to it, probably significantly.

I think he’s saying that manually configuring all the containers (without this tool) isn’t ideal.

You should seriously never go back to that person again. That’s absurdly irresponsible, and even if he somehow knew for certain that it wasn’t about to explode (he did not), the amount of liability he’d assume giving it back to a customer like that is way too high for any reputable shop to consider doing so.

Plus it takes enough more it’s not really saving that much.

If you give me ketchup that’s not Heinz or mayo that’s not Hellmann’s I can’t eat it. (OK, there are some more expensive premium options I’m also good with for mayo, or making my own, but I think anything else in that tier or below is extremely gross).

Everything. Almost.

I’ll go for $20 sunglasses because I lose them constantly and Costco cheap for a lot of stuff because they have enough customer service (that I won’t exercise) to think it’s not bottom of the barrel, but there’s just a bunch of stuff where the money you save by buying the cheap version disappears when you have to replace it.

Specifically in terms of spending more than most would, my ereader is up there. It was like $700 for the discounted “refurb/open box/whatever” version, but it’s 13.3" with great sharpness and Android so I can get content from a broader variety of services without jumping through hoops. It wouldn’t be worth it for most people, but I’ve read enough books through it in the time that I owned it that I don’t regret it at all (and wish I spent more for the newer version that has a light).

I’ve had a couple times I thought about it when I was genuinely annoyed at whatever behavior, and a couple times I thought about doing the opposite and going through whatever the process is to say “this lawsuit is horseshit”.

Ultimately I haven’t done either though.