Comment on YSK about Sketch Toy
dnick@lemmy.world 7 months agoMaybe don’t draw art that you want to own on there?
Do you refuse to throw a piece of paper away because the landfill then owns it? If for any reason the thing you’re trying to convey is private and you want to retain ownership, then obviously don’t use it, and it’s great for you to call that out so others are aware. But to vehemently dismiss some functionality because you don’t find the utility worth the cost is short sighted and childish.
lando55@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is a very interesting point that raises a lot of questions; does throwing something in the trash by definition relinquish my ownership? What if I throw something away by accident? Where is the demarcation between my owning something and WM taking ownership? Does it then pass on to whomever owns the landfill, or subsequently whoever might dig it out of the trash? You’ve done gone and wrinkled my brain for the weekend.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Isn’t this why dumpster diving is illegal in many places?
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As far as I know that is usually mostly a liability problem. Scavenging can be dangerous in the activity itself, and you don’t know “why” someone chose to throw away that “perfectly useable” thing. Maybe you get lucky and the reason was dumb, but there could be a very good reason. Either way the dump tells you not to, so when you get hurt doing it, it’s on you.