This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying "anything goes if you agree to it" this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.
Rentlar
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Ubisoft might have to get used to not owning high value stock, if they keep pushing through anti-consumer bullshit in their games.
"The remote shutdown did not affect these vehicles. They are operating normally, without any failures," he said Friday on Telegram, per CNN. "You couldn't ask for better advertising for the Cybertruck."
Buy a Cybertruck today! Only 1 in 3 chance it stops working after 2 months!
Sorry, you didn't flip the hourglass in Morg's Inn before the end of Chapter 5 so you're stuck with the 3 terrible ending sequence options. We only put a vague hint about it on page 63 in the instruction booklet.
Let's save money and have AI control the Nuclear Power Plant, see what happens >:]
That's part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.
Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too...
Ah of course. Americans tie so much success and personal welfare to employment, that's the problem! An UBI would help everyone succeed then we wouldn't be too worried about immigrants /s.
Welcome to the club!
I really feel this especially related to mobile (cellphone and tablet) communications: (Google Pixel is the only device offering substantial support for alternative OSes, Mobile Payment Processors rely on one of the big names like Google, Apple, Samsung etc., other projects becoming unmaintained and supporting 10 year old phones, etc.)
In the personal (laptop and desktop) computing space we are in a much better place. You are much less beholden to companies' interest in harvesting data on every aspect of your life.
Sure, we can lament that most people don't care. But look where we are now: I have daily driven my Linux box for a year to play all the games that are in style with my friends without Microsoft constantly over my shoulder. I'm on Lemmy and other Fediverse platforms, unbeholden to specific corporate policies. I use Beeper which means I don't have to have Meta apps harvesting interaction behaviour directly on my primary cellphone. I can't win every battle for my privacy and freedom, but each conscious choice I have that I make is a statement of resistance, and one step of many towards my ideal of the computer world I wish to be in.
I bet Larian is like, "Oh no, Hasbro this is terrible! We locked down the editor best we could, but those conniving hackers broke the protections to make creative custom content for our game. What will we ever do? 😏"
I.e. "Time flies when you're not having fuck?"
I think this idea is good. I remember seeing those domain names last year. At the time it seemed muddy and uncomfortable to me, since there was a whole scheme of Reddit ghost accounts posting, while I understood there were good intentions behind it, mirrored posts were flooding users' All feed to the point I started blocking a bunch of subs, and many admins defederated.
If we can promote the community first approach where the domain is the space for discussion to be held and stored, with users connecting from across the Fediverse, this would be excellent, a good alternative to massive centralized Lemmy servers. Collective ownership would ensure preservation of content if one or more go offline.