You don’t consider the GRU/Africa Corps to be neo-colonialism at the least?

And if we’re still both 32 bits dating, instead of getting married into 64 bits, we’ll have some problems in January 2038…

Only nerds want idempotent build results, it’s so fun debugging slop…

You give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. There’s no real desire to make stuff efficient when people just accept it.

A different example is that if you said 15 years ago that all of your desktop programs would actually be running each in their own individual web browser, people would look at you like you’re crazy. Now it’s somehow normal.

In what way would the EULA/contract be illegal/invalid? The US has a pretty broad freedom of contract. No one has forced you to buy that licensed computer program. You don’t need it to survive. You’re not discriminated against by not being allowed to buy the software instead of a license.

Understand I’m playing devil’s advocate here. I agree that such contracts are morally corrupt, but I’m not aware of anything that’d make them illegal. Only by being truthful regarding the current laws is how we can make change.

I agree, but that’s not how I’d imagine the courts would see it? If the EULA says that you don’t own the computer program, you’re just paying for a license to use it, then you’re not really “the owner of a copy of a computer program”…

Good for Trump that DC is on the list, otherwise he should have trouble voting.

You’re forgetting the 12% exception, but they’d probably need an even larger amount than that.

Dolly Parton or violet, who knows.

I thought we all hated FIFA and are supposed to call it a “commercial break”?

It feels like EU Directive 2014/109 chickened out in comparison to those pics. Especially all the warning labels regarding children or fertility… a large portion of the imagery is almost comedic, showing that your balls will explode, and that babies will mooch your cigs.

The figures come from Surfshark, one of the best VPNs on the market,

It’s just an advertisement piece.

They’re not thinking about the hardware in any way.

Yeah, but that’s also because Apple doesn’t even inform the user that their version of macOS is EOL. So unless you’re an active follower of Apple news, most people won’t care – at the least simply because they wouldn’t even know. Same thing with Android, etc… whereas Microsoft makes it annoyingly obvious that you’re running an unsupported version.

Yeah, that’s also a big factor. I think a factor would also be that EU has stricter safety laws, it’s usually much harder to get a license than in the US, has better infrastructure, etc.

Not to mention that new US cars (as far as I’m aware) still don’t even have a requirement to have ADAS, doesn’t really help the situation. If an idiot is on their phone here, there’s at least some chance that their car will brake… but even more dangerous if it’s a twatmobile of course.

A possible correlation would be that smartphones became much more popular and mainstream during that time.

How about when they “accidentally” sent that email to all your users saying that they NEED to buy Plex Pass to continue to use remote streaming? Or when they had that “bug” in the app shortly after that, where remote streaming would give an error message saying that need to buy Plex Pass to stream your content?

Maybe they don’t solicit from you, but they use dark tactics to trick your users, and that’s not acceptable in my opinion.

That won’t remove it if it’s a factory app…?

If you’re living in a country with good consumer rights, I’d return it.

And people wonder how Temu and such can sell tablets so cheap… they’re making their money back in many different ways.

That’s actually a very bad gateway if it’s still running an nginx from 2010.

Therapy of some sorts is probably going to be more effective than making self-blocks, especially if you’re technically competent. I wish you luck with stopping whatever addiction it is.

Sure, because no one who’s actually mentally healthy would specifically seek out someone with mental health problems. But if you happened to meet and clicked well, then sure.