My issue with it is the complete lack of transparency in the spyware. It would be better if we were actually told about the spyware and the data it sends is accessible to us. But right now we have no idea what they’re sending, how any of it affects our insurance rates, and have no way to dispute anything resulting from it.
Really? Its pretty common. Less common than nsfw, but still. Guess you’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand.
r/eyebleach was a great place to go after stumbling on a nsfl post. I wonder if there is a Lemmy equivalent… Gonna go check.
Found a few communities, most only have a few posts, this one has the most at 32.
What’s the difference between malware and windows?
Malware is well maintained by its developers.
Yeah, flash certainly wouldn’t work for actually running the game, but it would work great for a 1 time distribution/transfer method to the game to a pic/console’s drive.
They could just use a flash drive to distribute the game. Copy the game to the local drive…and wait, that’s how PC gaming works.
The appeal of CDs, or game cartridges, was the ability to load a game and immediately start playing (well after the loading screen as everything loaded into ram) and you could play the game on other consoles (bring game to friend or resell it). To recreate that, most games would have to be shipped on a 256gb ssd so the game can just load from that on any computer. I have a feeling that’s not the best business strategy right now
The issue is that someone else holds the key to your license. They can revoke it at any time, with 0 meaningful consequences.
We must now provide our own physical media to store the game…which in principle is fine and makes more sense than a game disk. However, the reliance on corporations to not fuck you over is the issue.
Archiving all your games is easier than said done too. To properly “keep” every game, you’ll need a lot of high-capacity storage devices. Going by common file backup strategy, we need to store at least 3 copies, ideally 1 off site somehow. That’s going to add up quick.
And hopefully your game is DRM free and doesn’t try to phone home looking for a valid license on a deprecated server.
Next update? No, it’s re-enabled automatically when ever you have an important conversation, that way you can’t forget to turn it back on!
I hate what google has become.
The layman just has to explain how they’re doing it wrong confidently written almost as a tutorial.
They’ll get the right info pretty quick.
Jellyfin is PnP if you get someone else to setup it up for you 🙃
And that’s part of why I transferred over to privacy.com for all my online stuff. Every online website/service gets a dedicated card, with set limits and are easily deactivated.
Unfortunately, privacy.com only works in the united states. I’m unaware of any alternatives.
Well that’s terrible. Gonna need a Bluetooth broadcast device that send all kinds of bogus info to these things and figure out how to spoof a bluetooth mac address. or a hammer or one of them projectile shooters Americans seem to love.
Although, in an alternate timline where technology is used for good, if these things connected to the various find-my networks to help people locate their stuff, that’d be pretty cool.
Don’t forget the “major” version increment that breaks “lifetime”.
…yes, I definitely read your entire post and repeated exactly what you said for fun.
Why have an extension for this?
On Firefox (desktop and mobile) you can easily add it as your default search engine. It can be done in Vivaldi too (not sure if its a chrome default or Vivaldi addition).
They could just have a 1 paragraph guide telling you how to do it.
I hope you saved what you could from that exchange, as well the attempts to contact them. If they ever notice, their AI mistake will become your problem to deal with, (and the kind of news story to end up on a Steve Lehto video).
If that happened to me, I’d have a chat with my bank, “please help me return this money to where it came from, it was payed in error. They have no way to contact a human and I don’t want them to accuse me of fraud down the line”.
I suppose, I was thinking more of the result than the material. But I guess that also depends on what you use it on. I’m not sure, if you used it on a pile of food, would the food fuse together or splash out everywhere.
Non-stick splash cooking
Don’t forget the non-stick spray cooking!!!
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/26fe8b09-f040-44e5-a3ae-db3418b7badc.jpeg
No idea, I refreshed the page and it went away.
No please don’t. We will get 0% of the profits and 100% of the debt/consequences slowly paid out to mystery accounts with taxes that could have been spent on proper heathcare 100 times over.