I’m clicking this because I don’t believe you and want to listen to the song.

LG’s Windows drivers were doing that. LG deserves the blame and can’t be trusted, but ditto for Windows itself.

The fucked up part is that “expertise” is assumed to be exclusively found in the industry being regulated. Bill Gates is a respected industry expert, but RMS is just some dumbfuck nobody because he’s not “in the industry”.

Unconscionable bunk. It’s illegal anyway, just like how you can’t sign a contract to sell yourself into slavery.

If the courts won’t enforce it, vigilantes should.

That just sounds like a good way to destroy index funds.

Go look up “tivoization”. GPLv2 isn’t enough to protect you from this shit.

Leave it to Sony to come up with new and innovative ways to harass customers.

Very popular this time of year.

My city’s public pools close at the beginning of August for some stupid-ass reason.

Yep. When I say “I use Keepass” what I actually mean is “I use KeepassXC, Macpass, KeepassDX, etc. depending on which OS I’m on at the time” and AFAIK none of those are actually made by the original Keepass developer.

No, he shouldn’t have switched to Bitwarden. Why the fuck do people keep recommending cloud shit instead of Keepass?

I don’t know where this weird trope of thinking Keepass is somehow obsolete or inferior came from, because it isn’t.

In my experience, [proprietary] projects are doing well if their Makefile isn’t so broken that they have to run it twice just to make sure everything actually compiles. And you want them to actually optimize it…?!

That may be an explanation, but it isn’t an excuse.

To be clear, I’m writing from a Lemmy/Reddit/Slashdot perspective. Maybe on Mastodon/Twitter (or, dog forbid, Facebook) it’s different, but I wouldn’t know because I’ve never used that shit.

How does a project literally named “.NET” manage to fuck up so bad as to need WINE instead of just Mono?

Emojis are modern-day hieroglyphs.

The point is not to change the troll’s opinion; the point is to discredit them in front of whoever else may be reading the thread.

Also, the other action other than blocking them is reporting them and having a mod or admin remove them for everybody at once.

Both of those are better options than individually blocking.

Blocking doesn’t stop them from propagandizing others.

Then transcode it to whatever other format you need yourself. Point is, the thing being sold ought to be the highest quality possible.

But then, that would likely mean an expectation of a lower price tag and they wouldn’t want that.

In other words, they want to commit fraud with impunity. Because that’s what lying about the difference between a sale and a rental is: fraud on Sony’s part.

But they said “DaTA cenTeRs wILL BrINg JObS”!