Me, fighting with using an am5 chipset & nvidia graphics card for Wayland based distros because damn it, who needs a working machine anyway: “Heh, guess I’m not a clown”

Amulet of speak with the dead - cursed. Once attuned the user can speak with the dead, but can only interpret chat with the living as wailing, any attempts to speak with the living will sound like wailing to the other entity. Removing the item does not break the curse.

Friendly reminder that gog ship the suitable version of fallout 4 goty, as well as the folon mod. No need to run any downgraders or manually pull files from steam repos; just download the base game, then the folon mod; run it, and you’re good to go.

The fact that you’ll own the content rather than a license for it is a nice bonus too.

Wouldn’t surprise me that it’s a rehashed comic book idea. It has all the markings of one. I found this which was apparently published in a playboy magazine of all places, not sure if it’s a retelling of the comic book or another rehash of the same idea, but it definitely seems like something that inspired the film.

Whilst an average film overall, the movie ‘In Time’ has an interesting concept for currency set in a near future sci fi dystopia.

Humanity has cured aging, and everyone stops aging at 25. Then their clock starts; indicated by a tattoo like digital clock on their forearm. Everything is paid for with time taken off their clock, once it reaches 0, they immediately die. Jobs pay employees a time salary etc, and the rich horde and manipulate the time markets to concentrate their wealth, and keep the poor from achieving the immortality they horde.

I enjoyed it, and I’m sure plenty others did, but there’s no denying that a rather large suspension of belief is required.

Or she employs the old ‘secretly give them a gold eating coin’ trick. Momentary gain for eternal torment.

Enshittification, in my kitchen?!

You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what’s in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.

Conversely, I’d imagine there are babysitters out there who at times wish they could just throw the baby away.

Rubber? I barely know her!

kingarthur1

You can access the gov link seen in the screenshot and see it’s legit from the US gov rather than a common scammer: https://www.dhs.gov/cbphome.

Ofc the current US gov are some of the most prolific grifters that country has ever seen, so your point still stands that these people will likely be scammed… They’ll just likely end up thrown into a concentration camp rather than deported on a commercial flight with $1,000 as promised.

UT stands for Ubuntu touch ;) I’m already on a Linux phone. I’m talking about app development.

“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my distro. Prepare to die”

Did you read the article? Your final sentence pretty much sums up what happened.

True. Being mindful of which brand you buy is becoming ever more important for those of us who are privacy focused.

Volla, Jolla, fairphone, pinephone etc… are good examples of companies that ship phones with native Linux support. You can buy them preloaded, I haven’t heard any ruminations of these bootloaders being locked away, but admittedly don’t know their stances on the subject. Locking down the bootloader to the point where it doesn’t seem worth it seems to be more of a mainstream approach though for sure. (I still remember trying to get lineageOS on my Motorola… Just, wow).

Ubuntu touch is Linux based also, which is my choice due to newer hardware support over postmarket. (Currently running a volla quintus) Though I can see myself moving over to sailfish, as the default browser in UT is morph based, and creating web apps can be something of a pain due to unsupported browser issues…

All of these OS’ suffer from a lack of app development though, hopefully this Google nonsense helps change that, though mass adoption is usually the precursor to app dev, hence my pie in the sky comment.

Wish my parents named me something cool like stairdrarc the netherwatcher.

The key difference is that one is advised, the other is enforced.

Yeah I can appreciate that take mate. The level of audacity they would need to think something like this wouldn’t be noticed is almost unimaginable. Lying by omission does feel like the best comparison to make regarding this.

Rest easy friend; there will be plenty more corporate nonsense for us all to jawdrop over tomorrow!

If you give a letter to a postman, and the recipient asks why you put “P.S: I love you” on an official piece of documentation, your first thought wouldn’t be “that damn postman, opening my mail to try and enhance it”.

The same is true for YouTube. People have been uploading videos for decades with them ending up on the platform the way they are uploaded, so it stands to reason that longtime users would expect this behaviour to continue, especially if there have been no Comms around any changes.

Of course Google isn’t to be trusted, and anyone trusting YouTube to be ethical clearly isn’t paying attention to anything. But that doesn’t change the fact that youtube have intentionally hidden this change from their user base. Sure, the result was public facing, but the cause was kept secret; and that’s the nuance you’re overlooking.