r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 14 points 8 months ago

If no-one pirated any Sony game do you think they would.

A) Lower the price of the game to maintain their existing profit margin.
B) Set a lower price that increases their margin.
C) Keep the higher price and just make a fuck ton more money.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would agree. It's useful to know all the parts of a GNU/Linux system fit together. But the maintenance can be quite heavy in terms of security updates. So I'd advise to do it as a project, but not to actually make real use of unless you want to dedicate time going forwards to it.

For a compiled useful experience gentoo handles updates and doing all the work for you.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I read this book a few years ago. It was called Jennifer government.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 8 months ago

Release the hounds. I mean lawyers.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment "pirating" another user's comment.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 8 months ago

I don't know. I'm suspecting the question was asked in some very weird way. I refuse to believe this is true. Maybe I'm out of touch, not being from America. But this just seems so unlikely to me.

Even people that like the guy, must have heard his opinion on women many times before now.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 11 points 8 months ago

Wait wait. Do you seriously believe most men actually think Trump respects women? Do you honestly really believe that? Because that is precisely what this thread is all about.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 58 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Make one :P

Then I suspect you'll find the answer is money. The ones for women simply just make more money.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 8 months ago

This is, I think his train of thought. He thinks Twitter is a utility that people need. Meanwhile, many of us never had an account and moves like this will just move people away. Before twitter there was other social media, and before social media we also got on fine.

There are literal alternatives to this service, I cannot believe people are still using it now. But surely this kills it?

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 9 months ago

Nah. Netflix used to be a reasonable price and a very decent alternative to the rip off prices of cable and satellite TV.

Then of course every other media company wanted to charge the same price each time splitting off shows that used to be on Netflix.

It's reached the point that it would cost the same ripoff prices to get all the services needed for most people to watch what they'd like to watch.

This is just too much to pay per household per month for entertainment.

Bring back one service that provides all the TV (not even movies) for less than 30usd/25 gbp and I'm there. But I'm not subscribing to them all. It's ridiculous.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I checked myself when this was first a thing. Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 latest are on 5.4 and 5.2 respectively.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, I run forgejo for my own stuff. So, let's say I decided to host something that is subject to a copyright complaint. As soon as people start using your repo and their lawyers get a whiff of it, they'll just take the IP of your server and DMCA the owner of the IP. Whether it be me, or the host. It's an entity they can go after and will need to yield to appropriate law. The effect would be the same as the DMCA going to Github.

But on tor, it hides the entity operating and running the server. Making it a lot harder to find the person to even send the DMCA to, let alone start the legal wheels turning, if it were ignored.

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