It’s really not.

In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.

The other benefit with Costco is that they have an extremely generous return policy.

Some obvious stuff has different rules (electronics is 90 days, stuff like tires that have clear expected lifespans have their own rules), but it is extremely liberal. And my experience is that I pretty rarely have to use it, because while not everything is a premium product for a bargain price, they tend to ensure that the suppliers for products they sell have reasonable build quality and make stuff that isn’t trash designed to fail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_Inc._v._Connectix_Corp.

The courts aren’t. Nintendo is.

Emulation has already been litigated to hell and back. It’s very clearly legal, including relying on users pulling a blob or two from their hardware for the whole thing to function.

The problem is that “don’t let people game you” is extremely difficult.

It’s many, many orders of magnitude easier to provide a useful search of sites that tell you the truth about what they are than it is when 99% of sites lie to you.

But still declared them liable for the actions of their users.

Bad ruling, just less bad than it could be.

If I put the over/under at 10x male pirate to female, are you taking the under?

I’ve definitely noticed the results suck ass, but this is a nice breakdown.

That shouldn’t work. They should still be unconditionally liable for anything the rep said in all scenarios, with the sole exception being obvious sabotage like “we’ll give you a billion dollars to sign up” that the customer knows can’t be real.

I wish there were more cards.

I have played it a decent amount, but I probably wouldn’t still play it if it wasn’t also on my iPhone (there’s a “plus” on Apple Arcade that looks identical, too).

I like Monster Train better mechanically for the reason that it does feel like there’s a lot more variety, though I dislike how short the runs are to build a deck with. (I’d like Slay the Spire to go longer on a good run, too).

I haven’t been too far on ascensions. I don’t think they’re really more entertaining. I mostly do the daily runs because at least there’s variety there.

Absolutely.

They’re exactly the same as the audio being out of sync. It literally makes me want to puke.

If you’re actually hearing impaired I’ll probably tolerate it for you. Though realistically we just won’t watch anything together.

Otherwise I hate you for asking. Nothing makes a show/movie unwatchable more than having the text of what a character is going to say shoved in my face before they say it. I’d rather get kicked in the balls repeatedly than watch shit with subtitles. It’s less severe torture.

“AR” has always been sci-fi. The details you’re discussing have never been part of the discussion because it was fiction.

This is far more AR than any of the shitty displays that project on glasses (all of which also are distorting and changing the light from the real world) and don’t have meaningful capacity to interact with the real world inputs. Any reasonable definition of AR absolutely is including the Apple Vision. It’s the real world, in real time, with all the inputs and processing capability required to interact with it.

All your other complaints have nothing whatsoever to do with your silly definition of AR made for the sole purpose of excluding the most exciting piece of tech in the space ever. Weight and battery capacity are also completely unrelated to any possible valid definition of what AR is.

They didn’t do a clear coat like everything else ever made lol.

Apple hasn’t called it AR.

But it absolutely is AR. If you can see the real world in real time, with additional information on top of it, that’s AR. Your requirement that it not be on a screen is completely arbitrary and has no basis behind it whatsoever.

For first party stuff, Nintendo launches finished games (though Sony does too).

For third party, cartridges are expensive enough that it’s not uncommon at all for companies to straight up make a bunch of content download only. A lot of “multiple game” collections only put some of the games on the cartridge (not counting the ones that tie some to keys).

I don‘t see a reason why these cardridges wouldn‘t work in 20 years anymore.

Because, just like discs, they’re a crappy pre-launch build that relies on day one patches or additional content to actually work correctly.

I would be shocked if the newer versions don’t have a software hack way before that.

The fact that the first version was easy to hack made later versions lower priority, but at some point for the sake of preservation or to have the OLED, the new ones will catch up.

To turn every comment, no matter how on topic, into obnoxious spam.

I really want absolutely no part of people who don’t understand code using LLMs to submit things they don’t understand. That’s a disaster waiting to happen at best.

If you don’t understand every line you’re submitting completely, you should not be submitting code. It absolutely does need to be restricted to people who know what they’re doing.

Eh, it is what it is. I could sideload if I really wanted to.

After more effort than it should have taken (for some reason my PIA app or Android was bouncing local connections even with the settings to allow it enabled) ebooks do work. Probably not well enough for me to actually use it, though. It only turns pages with swipes and doesn’t really give any ways to do formatting. I’m surprised I’ve seen it suggested by people for ebooks with how limited it is. (I fully understand that it’s not the priority development-wise).

But at least I finally set up docker, which I’ve meant to do forever.

It’s a US site and a US court.

US law is the only thing relevant to the case being discussed.

I’m not crazy into stats (I don’t track books when I re-read them, though goodreads supports that), but audible’s “you read 30k minutes last year” was definitely kind of cool. (The fact that it took me a full 30 minutes to add the new books I’ve read across 5 apps since last time I bothered putting stuff on goodreads? Not so much.)

My problem is I have a whole stack of different apps to fill out my listening, so Audible’s numbers are 90% the 1 author I actually bought from them outright, then there’s two different library apps, and a subscription to Scribd Everand for a bunch of my reading, plus actual files in a different app, so none of it really means anything, and not everyone provides it so I can’t even compare.

It’s too bad the iOS app is stuck behind test flight, but it looks like it supports ebooks, too, so I think I might try it on my Android readers and see how it manages for those. I desperately need a better system for those than “just go find the file and use boox drop when I feel like it”.

Imagine thinking you should be able to use the platform that makes “open source” their whole marketing pitch while locking you into their platform that they have paywalls on, then try to enforce restrictions on how modifications to their “open source” project are allowed to work, for free.

None of this is “hacking”

On kindle, if you tap the middle of the screen, then click the little Aa up top, you get formatting options. On reflowable formats, you can go to the more tab and uncheck the animation button. On ones that are fixed pages, it should be one of the only options.

Same, have a boox, getting a second boox, and really wish I had a better option to track location across devices. KOReader is a nice reader experience, but browsing books sucks. I use a blend of moon reader and the built in app depending on my mood, but neither feels as good as maple reader on my iPad, and nothing I’ve found can really sync my location.

https://wiki.kavitareader.com/en/faq/external-readers

I keep not getting to it, so can’t vouch for it, but Kavita looks like it’s worth trying.

Yeah, if they weren’t sourced by people giving them to them under other pretenses I wouldn’t judge.

Jesus Christ fuck them. “Fair is fair”?

Torrent Freak’s.

They cover news in the torrent and piracy space. This is very clearly news. It’s literally the whole purpose of the site.

Because part of their job is sharing all the batshit people argue in court that affects the space?

What are you talking about?

Despite the fact that GPS trackers without restrictions literally already existed, are unconditionally legal and legitimate to have, and were readily available to bad actors, they heavily limited the functionality out of the gate to limit the benefit to malicious use cases.

That’s insane.

It’s also worth noting that they’re both Japanese companies, and Japan has different views on IP than the rest of the world. I don’t really know enough to go into detail, but it’s entirely possible something a company from the US could laugh off is enough to get action taken in Japan.

Trademarks can become genericized if you don’t actively defend them.

Copyright cannot.

Using it to generate code isn’t inherently bad (outside of copyright concerns). Especially in “stupid amount of boiler plate” languages/etc.

But the problem is that people are lazy. They don’t bother understanding the output, making sure it does what you want it to, etc. It’s not that different than people copy pasting code from reference material. Part of the beauty of software development is that you don’t have to solve every problem someone else has already solved. But you do need to know what your code is doing and why.

Copilot is a shortcut to code that “works” with less requirement to know what’s happening.

I know what sub I’m in, and while I don’t pirate anything, I’m not going to argue the ethics at all.

But according to the article, they were literally advertising to customers that they were sling and selling them devices preloaded to look like they were sling. Again, I’m not here to argue the merits of piracy generally. I follow the sub without being a pirate because many of the legal/technical issues around piracy affect anyone who wants to own their media and browse the internet with some level of privacy. But distributors of any of that content aren’t credible if they’re lying to the end users. Lying to tell people you’re actually the real service isn’t cool.

Doesn’t seem like “‘pirate’” needs the quotes.

Bypassing the DRM might be legal, but if you’re openly advertising piracy, you lose plausible deniability and make it very easy to get your device blocked from sale.

And they scammed people by telling them they were actually paying sling/whoever.

ProtonDB is your friend. I haven’t had to tweak many games, but you can find useful information there. ProtonUp-QT is also sometimes helpful. It streamlines adding proton GE, which is sometimes needed for codecs steam can’t package. I personally install everything I can through steam, though some prefer heroic or lutris for other stores.