LOL, they’re making a game out of this?!

We can (and should) just stop buying Sony items however as they are not doing so great on that front already.

Waaay ahead of ya there, buddy. I’ve been deliberately boycotting Sony since at least the rootkit in 2005, and I think the newest Sony product I actually bought was a Walkman cassette player.

Trouble is, Sony somehow still went right on existing as a huge multinational corporation for the last 20 years anyway. It’s almost as if boycotts aren’t enough and we actually need consumer protection law. 🤔

Revoke Sony’s corporate charter? Ban Sony products from being imported? Criminally charge the CEO and board?

• It’s a full controller, no “only one joystick” like the 2015 model.

This is 16-bit controller slander.

I also have a pair of underused Steam Controllers, and a Steam Link to go with them. Turns out I just don’t care about gaming on my TV.

I find it hilarious that a government is sponsoring something with “UwU” in the name.

And I berate you!

Can’t get suspended if you weren’t accepted in the first place.

Edmund Burke was English. Joseph de Maistre was Sardinian. Conservatism isn’t just a US thing.

On the contrary: MAGA is the truest expression of conservatism the US has ever had.

Craving to be subjugated and ruled by a dictator is and always was what conservatism has been about, all the way back to literal monarchists Burke and de Maistre. Any other definitions about “conserving” or whatever are just lies they tell to bullshit their marks.

I doubt many people would’ve been trying to use PC-DOS or MS-DOS as a server in 1996. More likely Novell NetWare, OS/2 Warp, or maybe Windows NT.

This. Expecting me to select from the drop-down on every single comment even though 99% of what I post is in the same language just isn’t realistic.

I’ve got a BIOS ROM chip sitting here on my desk waiting to be flashed with Libreboot as we speak.

How sad that you’re so desperately grasping at straws in order to simp for corporations.

Weird omission of Firefox.

It has to do with EVs in the sense that (practically speaking) every single one of them is new enough to be infested with surveillance, so (unlike with ICE) there’s no option to avoid it by going with an old vehicle.

Also, nobody gives a shit about new ICE cars, so there’s no point in mentioning them when they weren’t within the realm of consideration to begin with.

The criticism is of all new cars, not just EVs, but EVs are the only new cars that would’ve otherwise been worth considering.

Or in other words, what you wrote is a lie because old ICE cars without surveillance exist, but there is practically* no such equivalent for EVs.

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Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of ‘new text document’ and avoid watermarks:

(Not sure which font to use, so I picked a monospaced one for added ‘cyber’. Also, here’s a clean base image if anybody wants to do better.)

“Just as” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I’d say.

Maybe there’s room for compromise, but there is absolutely zero reason to concede such things in advance. The baseline expectation is that every device should be running Free Software and fully respect its owner’s property rights, full stop.

If you instead approach the issue with the casual attitude that “oh, proprietary isn’t so bad if it doesn’t connect to the internet” the compromise after negotiations ends up favoring proprietary tyrants way more than you would’ve been okay with.