Defensive Plants

It’s a mix, and not necessarily limited to older laptops.

You want to stay up to date with security updates as much as possible. Feature updates are not as important, especially if you want the least bugs.

On windows you can defer security and feature updates separately, I typically set 1 week for security and 1 year for feature updates (Assuming they haven’t changed that option again). That’s been enough for me to dodge the data-deleting updates.

For Linux, I don’t think it’s separated as a quick user option so cleanly. You can install the LTS (Long Term Support) version of your distro. The maintainers of that will do security/bug fixes as needed and slowly push feature updates when they are very well tested.

Set your child to highly destructive mode to wreck those signs.

I agree, if an IP is abandoned then someone else should be allowed to do something with it.

For this post I was talking about the game that was already made and distributed, not just the idea or characters.

I’ll use Mario Kart 1 for example, if Nintendo doesn’t sell that game anymore, then the game is made publicly available.

If the IP is still in use that A) doesn’t exclude Mario Kart 1 form becoming available, B) doesn’t allow competitors to sell modern Mario Kart games (trademark) and C) prevents someone from taking a 30 year old game and just reselling it on their store.

IPs are much more messy to handle, as it’s less a final product and more of a concept. Creative rights should stay with the creative people not a publisher.

If Nintendo decides to drop Mario, but the actual creator of Mario still wants to work with a different publisher, they should be able to do that before the IP becomes freely available for anyone to take over.

I like it. If the publisher no longer sells/supports the full game as purchased, then they no longer to get to complain about people pirating it.

I don’t like instantly throwing it public domain, that’s the wrong license to use. I think Creative Common CC BY-NC-SA would be more appropriate. (Credit the original, no commercial use, and any modified/redistributed version must follow same license).

This will prevent xbox from taking all the old PlayStation games, stealing an emulator, and selling them under game pass to people that don’t know those games are freely available.

I’d also add the game must be available as an individual 1-time purchase. If it’s only available as a bundle or subscription service (like game pass), that doesn’t count.

Likes other says it’s a spectrum.

Think about how a leg issue can be different;

• some people might walk perfectly normal but it starts to hurt after 5 min and they can’t lift too much.
• some might have a limp.
• some might need a cane.
• some might need a wheelchair but can still walk a few feet.
• some might wheelchair and not be able to walk.
• some might not a leg
• some might not have either legs

No matter what it is, it’s still a disability, just are some are more of a struggle than others.

Autism has a spectrum too, the problem is somewhere in the brain so we can’t see it like we can see a cane or missing leg. Things like asthma or color blindness are disabilities too, but we can’t see those either.

Nah, but if never stop talking about the absurdity of it all, we’ll start to think it’s the way things should be.

So why is this part of a budget? Why are they allowed to pass laws/regulations as a footnote to a budget.

Its insane, if I presented a budget for approval and it included footnotes adding in random unrelated policies I’d be laughed out of a job.

That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.

Yes, give it a robot arm to remove the cone. Or hire transformers for the job.

I’m pretty certain, but could be remembering wrong, they paused development when YouTube/Google was going nuts breaking adblock, which broke the extension. The dev eventually removed their adblock and made everything else work.

It still is for the creators there. Instead of browsing the algorithm I start on the subscriptions page, to only see uploads from people I actually want to.

There’s sometimes complaints about “I thought you were dead” when the channel has been uploading regularly the entire time. People just never got recommended the videos despite hitting all the buttons.

For example, did you know both Physics Girl and Tom Scott have returned this month - hopefully a sign that the world can still heal.

the same budget

How much did this it cost to collect all this data?

What cost? The data collectors paid us!

They were also the first OEM to support steam deck on their handheld (beside Valve).

Word pad had too many features, people could use that instead of word.

Wasn’t me, but I’m guessing because you said they only last a few hours? I took that ridiculous exaggeration and assumed you meant writing notes on your thumb.

Is this supposed to be a joke about storing data on your thumb? Also thumbs are not cheap, probably…I hope.

I’m sure there would be a million options, yours sounds quite fancy, and it will work great until Disney decides to sell giant mouse shaped drives ruining the whole thing.

I like to think that if streaming didn’t take over, the industry would have shifted to selling USB sticks with the media/game. Even if they did something goofy to “lock” it, at least being on a thumb drive would be more durable, compact, and have faster read time.

Imagine a nicely organized self of DvDs turned into nighmare pile of flash drives of different shapes and sizes as each movie tries to make theirs stand out to make up the lack of a cover.

Hey now, don’t get your hopes up.