thejml

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[–] thejml@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought this months ago right after update 5. Figured I’d get my $20 out of it and move on… now that I’m over 100hrs, they throw this out and I’m back in there making aqua ducts.

Not to mention they opened it up to modding and custom maps, this update added quite a bit. If you like city building management sims this is a must play. I’ve honestly played more of it than City Skylines. Just struck a chord with me.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

There’s everything from places like http://www.houstoncomputerrecyclingcenter.co/services.html to https://desktopdisposal.com

Just depends on what services you need. I forgot which one we used at a previous job, but they actually would come out and pick up pallets of severs and desktops, destroy the hard drives and resell them, mostly in bulk.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are third parties you can contact that will take pallets of old computers and do all the secure cleanup, sorting and selling for you. They can recover cash for you or do the recycling if needed.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

That’s actually interesting if true… considering they still have to stream us video, Pay the bandwidth and all but don’t generate any revenue. Makes me almost want to Let the whole ad play but skip it at then last second so it only costs them money.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

People who have to use their browser for telehealth and virtual teller banking access.

Sadly these are also things that require better security.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People, in general, don’t care. I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way, more that they just don’t notice until she show they searched for isn’t available and then they shrug it off and move on to another one they can watch. Most people I know don’t want to keep large catalogs around if things they like because they only watch a single movie a few times in their lives. They watch it and then they’re good for years or more. There’s so much content out there that there’s no way they’re going to rewatch things and there’s no way they’re going to miss it because they’re having enough trouble keeping up with all the new stuff. On top of that, the convenience of just turning on the tube and hitting play vs trying to find the disc, and store and organize it is huge. And ripping it and then keeping a large amount of storage locally, online and healthy for the purpose is out of their technical wheel house. (And budget at times)

Honestly, I’m a big proponent for buying physical media… but I’ve greatly reduced what I rip/buy/keep, just knowing there’s only so much time left on my personal hourglass and I’ve got better things to do than worrying about all that up keep. When I kick the bucket, no one is going to care about it all. Maybe they’ll keep a few interesting ones but they’ll likely just sit on someone else’s shelf. In the mean time, how many times am I really going to watch some of these things?

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

‘Eh, I’d have to argue that even open firmware devices are a mistake unless they’re really standardized and extremely popular, which aren’t things you can necessarily know when its early in its life cycle.

Open source things either get a cult following, or get that one lone dev that thanklessly keeps it going and then decides to give up and become a sheep farmer… or both.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does gog have Forbidden West yet?

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

30GB plus unlimited data streaming while using it…

That said, I suppose one plus is that this hopefully wont need as many 10+GiB updates literally right when I finally have an hour free and want to play it.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I did that but made it return success before it got to the notes. You had to scroll to get to the notes, but it looked innocuous before that.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Ah, the Hapsburg of AI!

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A local copy on a single person’s storage that isn’t available for future researchers, isn’t exactly Meeting the requirements of this article.

I have a copy of slashdot when they turned it pink for April fools day. Does anyone know that? No. Could someone find it if they wanted to read it? No. Is that helpful for preservation? No. To be helpful I’d have to make it available and searchable. You know what that does? Makes it so it can be DCMA’d.

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