His posture still says a lot, though.

Considering anyone who isn’t an idiot already uses steganography for security, who is this for?

Better question: Who decides what software “piracy” even is?

What’s interesting is if you look at Trending past 6 months, which puts elementary firmly in 1st. EasyOS and Mint are almost tied for 2nd.

This seems like a good time to remind people to update to yt-dlp 2024.11.18, if they haven’t already.

Like wealth disparity, you see people claiming more and more within the realm of IP. Where does this sort of land grabbing end?

“The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

This argument is not very convincing, and I highly doubt there’s any evidence to support it.

We should totally just go along with DRM, or they might decide to break other stuff. This is totally an innocent request, and far from attempted extortion.

/s

Journalism has been dead for ages. Now, satire (like The Onion), that’s informative.

Now that I think about it, the cause-and-effect here is probably being viewed all wrong.

What likely happens is that a game comes out to overwhelming expectations, and the greater those player expectations are met, the more word-of-mouth gets around about the game. Thus, games that deserve to do well make more money, and pirates are less motivated to work on a crack right away.

If player expectations are not being met, the less success the game receives, and the more motivated pirates are to crack it (driven by their disgust at bad software).

The above scenarios probably do a good job of accounting for 20% of the revenue for a game.

Neat.

TLDR: Old habits die hard.

I’m tempted to switch to Kubuntu, lately. It just keeps getting better and better.

Here’s the thing, though. Even if Trump somehow won the election, Elon Musk will still likely get indicted and get stabbed in the back by Trump. That’s kind of his thing. Trump doesn’t care about anybody but himself.

I really wish people would learn the difference between begging the question and raising the question.

If Nintendo actually gave a shit about their customers, they’d release all their games on GOG. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

Nintendo are control freaks. They want nothing more than to have their own official “security” guards watching over everyone’s shoulder, finger on the trigger of their shotgun, as they make sure you play their games (not your games) in the Nintendo-approved way of playing their games.

That is a funny joke, and it’ll continue to be funny for the next 500 years (if right-wingers get their way).

A true Klingon never uses comments.

Isn’t this kinda like old man yells at cloud?