What I want is consistency, either apply the law equally and fairly or reform the whole system. Nobody, especially not big business, should be getting special carve-outs to be exempt from copyright infringement outside of ‘fair use’ considerations.

In my ideal world, IP law would be framed to protect novel ideas just long enough for inventors or creators to capitalize on their ideas and prevent outright 1:1 copying without any sort of innovative or transformational changes. It would also discourage squatting on things like patents- patent squatting and the like should lead to losing rights.

Definitely adding “couldn’t count to 20 without taking off their shoes” to my repertoire, thank you very much

Very little pisses me off like downloading a ‘free’ app and immediately being hit with a paywall for a subscription without so much as a free trial. Those devs can go fuck themselves. Their app is NOT free and should not be marked as such.

Alternatively, shit like what Accuweather did also pisses me off. Years ago, they had a one time payment to remove ads permanently. I paid, because I like their service and didn’t mind kicking a few bucks their way to support development. A few months later, they introduced a sub model that locked many existing features behind a wall and started showing me ads again. I immediately uninstalled that shit, sent them a scathing email (which I recognize does nothing, but made me feel good), and found an alternative.

If you don’t have an Apple or Samsung device, the options are pretty limited or non-existent for accessories. In my experience, it’s been much easier to find a case that adds magnets than any other sort of accessory for my last 2 phones.

To me, the benefit of the magnetic back is that they are usable by any device with magnets. If I upgrade to a new phone next year, I don’t have to buy all new accessories.

Also, I have a magnet-attach charging bank for my phone, but it has a cable built in. That way I get decent charging speed without the efficiency and heat problems, and I can take it off the device when I don’t need it.

I really thought this was just going to be a link to the same comic. Shame on me for doubting ig

My guess would be that it’s intended to replace chrome os, which is already just android lite.

Right? I would have bought in to Stadia if I had ANY faith in the company behind it.

Also, I thought chrome os could already run android apps?

Something I’ll never understand about Google is that they don’t seem to understand that killing every project that isn’t instantly super profitable also kills consumer confidence.

I wouldn’t even consider using a new Google thing for the first few years of its life since I fully expect it will be chopped sooner or later. Case in point: Killed by Google

What is it with the ads for this site infested with sponsored items and ai slop? I’ve seen a few in the last couple days.

The number that makes people go insane is bigger than 2.6*10²¹, or 2,600,000,000,000,000,000,000

Wisconsin State Fair has something similar, but with donuts instead of the uncrustable

Unfortunately paypal tends to shoot first and ask questions never, so it affects more than just bad actors. For example, my mom had her account frozen after someone scammed her on an ebay sale- they returned the item for money back but sent an empty box. When she reported it, paypal froze ALL of her funds and defended the scammer. Years later, she’s still out a couple hundred bucks.

They’re also notorious for randomly freezing funds and leaving users with no recourse.

Edit: typo