The thing is, just like software subscriptions, you aren’t buying a piece of software, you’re buying the right to use it. You can be pretty sure that they have legalese in the eula that says that your right to use the software expires with non-use. I wouldn’t be surprised if they can even let it expire by simple deciding to no longer support it.

And what do you think will happen if their license servers ever go offline?

For the longest time I never bought anything digital, but I eventually caved to steam. I still blatantly refuse to join other digital platforms, except gog where I can download the software and it works without any remote server.

Same for music: I refuse to use Spotify. I buy from 7digital and the like, where I can download either mp3 or FLAC.

And they didn’t mention politics at all, they said not everyone wants to be reminded of the orange shitstain. I agree with them.

Technically, no, but then they need another source of revenue, because servers at that scale aren’t cheap.

What we need is a generation of politicians who understand that public services don’t lose money, they cost money - because they’re a public service, not a business. This mindset about “illegal riders” is all wrong. Imagine having to buy a ticket to use the pavement.

Lemmy is more reddit-like, while mastodon is more twitter-like.

They do federate, so yes, you should be able to see, like and comment between them.

As a drinker of both, I’ll have you know coffee a baked bean beverage, thank you very much.

I feel it necessary to make an important point here: there is a reason flash is dead. It’s horrible insecure. Fortunately the interest base for this kind of thing is fairly small, because someone with ill intent would not have a hard time providing a malicious swf and gain access to your system.

Now maybe - hopefully - the steam deck makes good use of various sandboxing technologies, but I’d recommend proceeding with care anyway.

“the” old city center 🙂 The Netherlands is quite a bit bigger than the Amsterdam tourist trap 😁

Hmm… Wonder if the haters would avoid stalls with such stickers for fear of catching the gay…

Make it a denial of service attack!

Dutch coffee shops, you mean?

Gilbert Grape?

Public bulletin boards are forbidden in, iirc, Brazil, or at least in the capital. Made for a very different view.

As if any spyware worth it’s salt didn’t install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like “Facebook” or “TikTok”.

There most certainly are, yet for some reason there is only one flag on this sign 😁

I’m certainly not generalizing, but you can’t deny that the US has its own weaponized brand of stupid.

I mean, of course it doesn’t. All the pic abused are being sold as calamari.

I don’t think they’re wrong, either. Some Americans do seem to think that foreigner means “not from the US”.

radical răd′ĭ-kəl adjective

1. Arising from or going to a root or source; basic.
2. Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme or drastic.
3. Relating to or advocating fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions.

I believe 2. is the most common colloquial use. It is perfectly possible to be a radical conservative; and I would actually argue that conservativism is a radical ideology, given that the world at large wants to make progress.

They should have just plain been disbarred. They were, de facto, lying in court.

Got a call from “Amazon UK”. I’m in Belgium, but i do have a UK account.

I requested him to verify by looking up my last order. He said “but I’m from Amazon UK sir”. Yeah, so?

Apparently my last order was “a big dildo for my mother and fuck you asshole” 🤣

Yep. The EU lawsuit forced them to. Also internet exploder is no longer a thing these days 🙂