Thalestr

If Meta gets away with this or gets off lightly, I’d love for this to set a future legal precedent for future piracy cases.

Unless they just straight up want to say “Piracy and copyright laws only apply to poor people” in a court of law.

The Crysis games have been dead to me since Crysis 2. Crysis 1 is still a blast to play even today.

$10 isn’t a high price, but it starts to hurt when you lump it on top of all the other fees and expenses most people have every month. Also that’s in US dollars - here in Canada, for example, the price is 50% higher before tax. It adds up fast.

My email is used constantly every day for both personal use and my self-employed business. It costs me $1.50CAD per month.

I’d never use a Microsoft mail client anyway. I use Thunderbird.

Forgive me for the pessimism, but I sincerely doubt that they honour any opt-outs. Meta has shown time and time again that they’d rather just pay fines as business expenses instead of abiding by law(s).

This. Numerous industries in the US make use of forced prison labour.

Goddamn, I wish we could act like our own independent country for once instead of just puppeting whatever the US does.

Appeasing shareholders and investors.

Microsoft has so many spinning plates up in the air right now and they have no idea how to handle them all. Eventually they’re all going to come crashing down and smash on the floor and it’s not going to be pretty.

Most of the beloved Arkane team had left long before the closure.

I do not have hope that this developer will make another good game let alone one that respects the TES IP or in any way lives up to expectations.

Not in Utica, no; it’s an Albany expression.

Discord and Tumblr.

Which is exactly why they want people wearing smartwatches to sleep.

I don’t know if this is hilarious or pathetically sad. AI has become the current “must have” craze in the tech world and it’s baffling watching every company try and find a way to shoehorn some form of it into their products and then try and justify its existence.

Cerence Chat Pro from technology partner Cerence Inc. is the foundation of the new function, which offers a uniquely intelligent, *automotive-grade *ChatGPT integration.

Why the hell would I want this?

Cool. I’ll just piss along the exterior wall of your building then or on the fence at the back of your parking lot.

Well, most people already use Chrome.

I have several of the original Philips LED replacement bulbs, which were some of the very first LED bulbs available. Paid about $35CAD each for them in late 2009 and they’re built out of solid metal and weigh a ton. They’re still going strong and put out a lovely light.

Woo! Happy to help 😁

My sister got me a weighted blanket a few years ago. I love it and use it every night.

Best given was a laser distance measurement tool I got for my dad who works in construction. He uses it all the time and has for years.