Same, except I dumped them a lot longer ago. (And frankly, I didn’t own much from them even before that, except a '90s Walkman and maybe a few other small things.)

Well, unless nearsighted people were outcompeting people with 20:20 vision, for some reason.

I mean, even in an LTS distro, it sure would be nice if the packages were reasonably up-to-date on the day the version was released.

Are you sure? The guy in the pic looks a lot like William Shatner, and Wikipedia tells me he was in Miss Congeniality, not Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Garfield is a famous example of being at least equally guilty of the things that user claims to be complaining about, yet he chooses to criticize this instead of that. It makes one wonder if he’s being honest about his motives, or if there’s some other reason Pizza Cake particularly bothers him.

Isn’t there a Garfield comic somewhere you should be railing against instead?

👉 👉 banning social media from being owned by any single entity

What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn’t there a huge public outcry against it?

What Nintendidn’t [yet], because that DS ad is a lot more recent and I don’t remember Nintendo itself having anything quite that risque in the '90s.

SEGA did what Nintendidn’t.

You are weirdly combative and rude about this.

I see every reason to anticipate the possibility and look for actual solutions (not just workarounds) that would head it off, such as organizing to defeat “age verification” politically in the first place.

Having a cavalier attitude like yours is a great way to fucking lose in the long run.

No, I would not say that, not even slightly.

You are absolutely and unambiguously freer to modify and distribute it than you would be if it were left in its default state under copyright law, which is “all rights reserved.”

Why is this apparently so difficult for you to understand?

To try to paint the GPL as restrictive is a rapist mentality, where you’re asserting the “right” to violate the rights of others.

I was really just trying to be funny by mentioning the film Nintendo would like everyone to forget, which also happened to vaguely meet your description, but thank you for telling me the correct one.

What are you going to do when it’s at the hardware and/or ISP level, and there are no workarounds for it?

They’re not “self-imposed” if they’re illegally imposed by a tyrant.

a b rated movie about some old coots in NY.

What, you mean this?

It’s not “extra” if it’s a legal requirement.

More to the point, I’m not saying it has to be licensed as Free Software or that it has to be made immediately public. I’m saying that a copy needs to be sent to a government archive, regardless of how messy it is, so that the government can make it public later when the company doesn’t care anymore.

First of all, how close is the closest non-super market? I mean, I could say “omg I’ve got to drive 20 miles to get to the nearest Costco” but that doesn’t give me an excuse to pretend the Lidl in walking distance doesn’t exist.

Second, even if there really isn’t any way to get groceries without driving 25 km, just because some particular town is designed stupidly and lacks necessary services locally now, doesn’t mean it has to be that way in the future. It’s somebody’s fuck-up that needs to be fixed, not an immutable natural law inherent to how small towns work.

LOL, what? You’re the one trying to make a point here, not me. Spit it out. I’m not gonna do your fucking work for you!