The technology to disguise a robot as an insect currently exists. Do you give thought and inspection to every fly that passes by?

Pipewire is my goat

Actually, that one was interestingly both corporate sabotage as well as poor design. The law detailed that all products containing materials known to increase risk of cancer have labeling as such, at first listing only things that the common person would definitely want to know about. Formaldehyde for example. Companies producing products with these chemicals did not like this, and sued to add a laundry list of additional chemicals to the bill under the context that in lab settings they’ve been shown to increase the risk of cancer… And well go figure, they didn’t specify a “significant risk” or anything sane like that in the law, so now pretty much everything that has even a inkling of cancer risk increase gets labeled. Good intent, terrible execution, corporately ruined.

😤 I’m upset I never thought about it this way till now.

Fair enough. I just operate under the assumption deleted means deleted, I’d never toss Auth keys in userspace but I could absolutely see myself placing them temporarily in scripts I’d delete later.

There’s no possible way they could do this since it’s not bootloader locked. If they did, sure they’ll sell a ton, but it would be used for all sorts of random junk instead of the steam store which wouldn’t generate them any profit and additionally would likely frustrate gamers due to extremely limited stock. We’ll all just need to swallow larger electronics prices until new fabs come online or the ai bubble pops.

Honestly this should be treated as a security vulnerability as well as a general bug, no?

Even in the future technology disappoints.

Imposter syndrome is a hell of a drug when it comes to negotiations on salary… Lol

Honestly every networking company that couldn’t be bothered to ship with randomized creds physically embedded/etched somewhere on the device should’ve probably went out of business. The cost has always been minimal and the increased security value has always been readily apparent.

My reponse has always been “If that’s the case, why make it appear as though it’s suffering to us?” And they usually respond with some level of “it’s a test”. Personally I think it’s just a wild set of mental loopholes they engage with to justify not feeling any guilt or reverance for the creatures they are consuming but I genuinely don’t know.

Sure, but care or not they can both certainly influence development on your favorite IP. Having the knowledge to be able to exploit this exploitive practice is not the same as supporting it or agreeing with its existence, just simple acknowledgement of your ability to influence outcomes of which in this case I’d suggest picking the one that is forever in your own personal favor.

“God created all for us to enjoy. Why would he instill within it the sense of self with which to suffer?” Is a paraphrased response I’ve received when posing this question to a few friends.

That does unfortunately and irrefutably occur. It’s not every case, but it is sadly likely a majority.

Can we get it to 99?!

There is a genuine downside, in that launch numbers are what most gaming publishers pay attention to most closely when deciding to greenlight expansions and sequels, but generally there are far more reasons to wait and know what you’re getting than to take the dive early and blind.

I once had a legitimate and expected call circa 2014 with the SSA to discuss depositing into my bank account of a dispursement. The call came from a random Tennessee number. The first question was “what’s your Social Security number?” And my response was “I don’t think I’m supposed to give anyone that” and the guy legitimately laughed and went “yeah, but you need to give it to us” and that’s the day I discovered our government’s opsec is 💩.

I’d avoid mint if you have an nvidia card or newer hardware. They ship older more “stable” versions of systems packages and kernels that just make it a pain. You may try something with built in nvidia support like PopOs or Catchy.

Microsoft code had a bug in it? No. Fuckin. Way. (/s)

I’m in the US as well, Iowa. Youtube premium no ads was $7.99 at launch. Eventually they bundled in gpm and increased it to 12.99 at which point I canceled. This was just prior to the rollout of ytm. If they A/B tested my area I’ve no idea, but I’m not incorrect. I literally just checked my email receipt.