Yeah, forcing any tech to use a service is terrible and short sided

Agreed, but things act differently at scale and it’s not like there’s 10 billion+ hammers being used at the same time, almost all of the time, for years on end

Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It’s like any other tool, when it’s used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects

You see, it actually did still save you time from finding a local shop that sells it and interacting with your neighbor

Yeah, with the Vault 7 releases and recent leaks showing NSA follows homeless people’s connections (who tend to hang out at libraries due to a lack of 3rd spaces), I don’t doubt there’s specific tracking, malware and other unwanted software at libraries. I don’t have any sources of this, but it wouldn’t surprise me

Maybe I’m overly parandoid because ::gestures at everything::

Welp, that’s enough dystopian reality for me today. I was actually hoping to have these for repairability and easier chip identification, but nope, built for prisons you say…

So issue here is privacy, the library is likely scanning whatever device connected, not just the files and file metadata

Awesome, thank you!

You aren’t a baker at your local bakery??

Just so I’m understanding games can be ISO format and then install diredtly?

Thanks for the info. Well, if I’m using SteamOS anyway could I do it without the steam client and no internet connection?

Yeah I’m pretty tardigans won the organic life supremacy competition already

Right? Is better than an alarm clock though

I think it was a monopoly move to avoid being broken up by the US Government, same thing happened to Google when they “became” Alphabet. It has tax and liability benefits, sketchy shell corporation tactics

But yeah the naming shower thought, yeah probably. I like that reasoning better than “metadata” and then “alphabet” since they work for alphabet soup agencies

Yeah if these entities are sentient, I hope they break free

99% of the shit Netflix has is reruns anyways

I find putting a DVD into a DVD player without having to sign in, have credit, a credit card, and have wifi to be the easiest. Usually costs less too

Yeah, whoever is benefiting from those changes is probably counting on it

That’s why education and reading books that disagree with your life, culture and understanding can be very beneficial

you are a printer we are all printers

Hmm maybe being the only all powerful being is lonely and wouldn’t that be hell if you were forced to continue existence?