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, its the reliance corporations to not fuck you over that’s 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.

I just tell them I don’t like these apps scanning pictures of my kids and knowing their exact location at all times. My phone also has a lot of my kids pictures that I don’t want being scanned for AI.

If a 40year old man had constant microphone, camera and GPS access to my kids, I’d be justified to go buy a gun. Why should a “corporation” be treated any different?

And privacy is not about hiding, it’s about keeping nosey people out of our lives. Like closing the windows when you’re talking about your finances so the neighbors can’t hear. You’re not hiding anything illegal, you just don’t want strangers to know every detail of your life.

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.

I like McMaster-Carr, it’s the greatest catalog of industrial supplies.

Also the markup on the first cutters that showed up is insane. $90 on McMaster, only $57 at home deopt

It sounds like you dogged a bullet. Management didn’t try to reach out to you at all in that hour to ask where you were? They didn’t see the email and figure out it was technical hiccup and reschedule the interview?

Gas pump ads are the worst. I stopped going to a station because they couldn’t be muted, and they’re the ads that scream at you or brain rot craft videos. I wouldn’t have minded so much if was only the “good news” segment or usefull PSAs. But yelling at me at 7am to buy beef jerky is not okay.

If a person came up to you at the pump and offered a flyer, that’s okay. But if they started screaming at you to buy their shit, that’d be harassment. Gas pumps should not be allowed to “harass” people.

So we can ship it tomorrow? Great I just told the investors, so we’re now leagly obligated to ship it tomorrow.

Beep must have written the bot.

I’m gonna be honest here, sounds like you need to be more selective in who you trust for your various services.

The way you describe these people, it sounds like you’re going with your “uncles friend” type of people or the trashy companies that are ran by someone pushing their staff to do quick/slop jobs for high profit.

Get that exterior worker to small claims before their business mysteriously dissolves into oblivion.

You can can give me a million dollars to paint your ceiling, but that’s not going to make me Michelangelo.

You need to find the people that take actual pride in their work, which is incredibly hard to do. Failing that, the established businesses that stand behind their work. If that autobody tech doesn’t warranty the paint job, they aren’t worth your business. If the guy re-fixing the drains is covering it on their own dime and making it right without a fuss, then that’s something to remember next time. Everyone makes mistakes, its how they handle them after the fact that’s important.

FBI open up! It sounds like trying you’re to steal lots of data in a few seconds before either the computer kicks you out, or someone returns to their desk. If you’re not staring in a “hacker” movie, 10GBs on a modern usb stick should only take a few minutes, go get a coffee or something while you wait.

For purely educational purposes, If a 3.0 usb drive isn’t fast enough you’ll need an external SSD which will have significantly faster write times. Be wary of vauge marketing like “fast”, 30MB/s was “fast” 20 years ago. You want the actual to find the spec for write speed, simply put, a higher number is better. Find the highest number, but also be wary of absurd claims. Try to find independent tests/research that support a manufacture’s claim.

That being said, you’re also limited by the computer’s usb capabilites and whatever drive that has. Make sure you’re plugging into a usb 3.0 port or better. Additionally, if the data is on a slow drive, there’s nothing you can do about that. If the data is comprised of a lot small files, it will be slower to copy as the system has to process each one.

I hope you enjoyed this educational exercise; and remeber kids, don’t do crime and if you get caught, you don’t know me!

This is like if Walmart started policing what products Target can sell and policing what products can go into your house, while not bothering to police their own store.

The map reminds me of Sid Meier’s Pirates.

How is that still the best pirate game?

Start digging. Make sure you clearly pull out a few hundreds and put them back in.

That’s why you gotta do a full pat down to throw them off.

Wow, it gets worse the more you read!

I always had the most success with the rouge. Sorcerer was great late game, but challenging early on.

Well that’s fun. Odd someone named Campbell asking was for a tomato soup recipe, you’d think that would just be built into their bloodline or something.

While I’m glad no JS package managers were hurt to make the soup, I do wish the recipe didn’t waste so much water.

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.

I think it should have to go through a mod. You can publicly hide your name from the post (it still needs to be visible to mods for moderation purposes), but you should have to ask a mod for total thread deletion.

Although that may not be the answer either, someone pointed out apparently mods are nuking threads too???

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