Ah that’s interesting. I’m too much of a pack rat and the idea of selling some of my music makes me uncomfortable. Though I guess I have some games that were duds I wouldn’t mind selling.

buying drm-free digital media is probably also okay, if you back it up yourself.

i don’t do any subscriptions, myself.

If I was a talented writer I would consider a short story about someone getting onto the medical staff just to murder Zuckerberg.

Maybe some sort of rom-com where two people have done so and they suspect each other of being corporate bootlickers, but in the end they fall in love. And murder Zuckerberg.

I think there’s something with age and lead poisoning that makes people short sighted, easily manipulated with emotional appeals, and short tempered.

why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?

I’m pissed they’re repaving the streets near me but they’re not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.

Yep. Place I’m at is in some sort of “hiring freeze”. They’re not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won’t be renewing them. It’s absurd.

Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.

But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.

Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

I see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.

Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.

Cars (well, the car-first infrastructure in most of the US) is already a pretty effective forment nexus.

Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.

They could pay people to check, but it’s more important that they spend billions on slop and executive bonus.

It would take an incomprehensible set of changes for me to consider going back to Microsoft. They can fuck off.

Ars is weirdly pro-windows sometimes , in the comments. I don’t read them as much as I used to.

Do the other ones have forums? I don’t remember even seeing them.

Is the steam forum supposed to be moderated by valve or the developer? I always assumed the developer.

I can see the appeal but I wouldn’t trust it.

Related thought: I despise how much stuff is made into video when a few paragraphs, maybe with a gif, would do just fine.

The other contenders mostly are bad.

Drm-free still exists.

They provide a lot of value without charging the end user very much.

Microsoft could have done this except they’re run by idiots and assholes. Nothing technical stopped them from launching a good store platform. They just didn’t want to.

Why would someone want a page summarized?

If it’s short, just read it.

If it’s long, the LLM will probably fuck it up.

They’re really going after the illiterate and lazy segment.

I didn’t personally find it difficult, but I have thousands of hours in video games.