Third option: force the government to outlaw this bullshit

Did I stutter?

Okay, enough is enough. The Internet Archive is both essential infrastructure and irreplaceable historical record; it cannot be allowed to fall. Rather than just hoping the Archive can defend itself, I say It’s time to hunt down and counterattack the scum perpetrating this!

Returning is not enough. Boycotting is not enough. We need to be marching on the FTC and Congress with torches and pitchforks about this shit!

In other words, because abuse begets abuse.

It all has to start somewhere…

That “somewhere” ought to be complaining to the FTC etc., because boycotts are hardly ever effective. We’ve put the mythical “free market” on such a pedestal these days that it seems like a lot of us forget that consumer protection regulation is even an option!

Hey! If you’re gonna do it, do it right!

1. Hyperlink your comment to the previous one in the chain
2. Make a post in [email protected] referencing it

See https://lemmy.world/post/8803878 for more detailed instructions.

Tech bosses think nuclear fusion is the solution

No they don’t; this is literally the first thing I’ve ever read claiming that. Tech bosses are perfect happy to power AI with nuclear fission and don’t give the slightest fuck about the waste.

(As well they shouldn’t, TBH, since it really ought to get reprocessed anyway. But that doesn’t excuse them for wanting to waste the power on bullshit.)

Yes! They announced the plan before they actually did it; they had plenty of time to realize how pissed off it made everybody.

However, wanting contributions while retaining the exclusive right to distribute the software is anti-collaborative. I’m reluctant to say it might as well be proprietary again

As you describe it, that is proprietary – no “might as well be” qualification necessary. Just because you can read the source code doesn’t make it Open Source; you’ve got to have all Four Freedoms for it to count.

Especially the pink cursive font.

Bullshit, Bruce Nesmith. You’re just a dishonest coward trying to absolve yourself of blame.

Edit: the paid horse armor was extremely controversial among gamers at the time, and plenty of people prophetically warned about what the consequences were going to be. Bethesda damn well knew or should have known exactly what Pandora’s box they were opening.

A significant portion of it is also literally about making friends with the NPCs.

Stardew Valley

I really think the blue sky is bad stuff is overdramatic xbox vs PlayStation kind of stuff.

That’s a very apt analogy, in the sense that they’re both shitty proprietary walled-gardens and people should actually be using something entirely different instead.

You don’t know. Webkit is the older brother of Blink (the engine in Chrome). They’re not different enough to count as separate.

Switching to Free Software is kind of like planting a tree: the best time was years ago (because you’d be over the learning curve). The second-best time is now.

The check out is the part where the actual sales transaction occurs. It really is materially different from those other services you mentioned.

Also,

I don’t really care since the part I like, getting finished at the store, happens faster.

That was true until they realized they could enshittify by closing all the regular check-outs and force everyone into it. Now it’s just as slow as full-service used to be.

Pro tip: the checkbox at the top of the column only selects the first page worth (100 messages). You have to click that and then also click the “select all N messages?” link that appears.

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