Digital media means that there is an ongoing service behind it.

I could download my file and be done with it. If I throw away or damage my super fragile bluray I’m not entitled to a new copy. I don’t even need to be able to redownload (although it’s a nice service). It means there is an ongoing service behind it because they decide it and because they are afraid I will share with my friends - which is about as difficult as finding the media elsewhere online.

With no more cash coming in, the service goes bankrupt.

Same issue with physical media. Suddenly your expensive factory is idle, your employees don’t produce anything. We still get to buy movies and not rent them perpetually.

Why I don’t get is why they fight so hard to promote piracy though. It’s not enough that it’s free, it also has to be easier?

It’s a chat with your friend and his friend, who you don’t really like, but for some reason have to see whenever you see your friend because now it’s become the thing you do.

An Enermax keyboard has been my daily driver as a programmer for my career that started in 2007. It still works just fine and I still have no reason to change to something else. Lots of reasons not to, since I like the classic keyboard layout and the flat laptop keys.

By that reasoning the nukes dropped over Japan is but an insignificant moment in history and of no importance what so ever.

I’m a software engineer too. I’ll tell you what changed. I have a kid. Daycare was shut down, but since both my wife and I can work from home we were expected to do just that. We got to spend a lot of time with the then two year old, but hardly saw each other except for the back of the head because one of us was always working. What was your corona project? Surviving, that’s what!

Oh, he’ll just change the unit test if it fails.

But then how will I avoid breaking rules in the future?

That won’t be an issue.

My only argument I can come up with is that other people have friends, so $25 will be less than going to the cinema because they don’t have to pay that price for each person watching. It’s still ridiculously expensive though.

They’ll offer 7 years, and a new phone if you use it for the duration. Then after two years they’ll go “nah, never mind” and drop it altogether.

Ugh, I have the xm4 and they are a great example of too many features. They sound great! However… I often use them while biking, and any kind of noise control is completely useless. Letting in sound would be great, but the wind noise is deafening. Which means that I cannot use the noise controls anywhere. If I’m on a call it automatically let’s in sound, which cannot be turned off.

Not to mention that they must have been designed specifically to be impossible to hold without dropping them.

And regularly the left one reboots…

Or a HURD.

Clones.

Funny you should mention cars. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Well, neither is iso…

singular they/them has been in use for literally centuries

Even if has been in use since forever, a more appropriate word can be introduced now.

Given your username it’s probably for the best.

What? Why do I see “removed” instead of whatever curse is uttered?

I’m chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.