KingOfTheCouch

@KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean to be fair, as the court determined, the people making this game stole parts of the game to sell to you in the first place, so this was piracy with more steps. I feel like the correct action would have been for the store to stop selling the game, the people that made money be forced to give that money to the people that were harmed by the steeling of the content. I guess it’s a bad look on Epic for them too to keep money made from this and maybe they are just trying to avoid being drawn into this ordeal by doing it this way. Legal systems in other countries can be a bit more precarious than what we expect.

  But yeah, it’s a dark precedent. Remove them from my library so I can’t redownload them from Epic? Never see updates? Maybe even not ever launch through Epic’s app? Sure. I get that.

  I really wish these stores had better simple language right in the “buy now” buttons. (Like, for example, “Rent now!”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this thing fucking sucks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There would likely be some extreme vortexes especially in the accretion disk. The pressure differences would absolutely create a suction effect.

  It’s all probably as negligible as legs on a cow to astrophysicists but I would reckon on its own (without the umpteen solar masses of gravity distorting your results), at human scale I would estimate that it “fucking sucks”.

  Pure speculation on my part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, as long as the current staff (by and large) are still at the helm of the Ars orbiting HQ, I’ll continue to go there. I’ve lost too many other good tech news sites in the last decade, I can’t lose another one.

  The rest of Conde Nast is hot garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh don’t worry, the grifters will all have cashed out and be floating away on golden parachutes long after the decades of litigation is over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s it right here boys and girls. The only defining factor for utility: Can it fit a sheet of plywood. God help you if you just prop it up - you gotta limp it home if you do that! Needs to sit flat in the bed!

  Everything else is a fucking toy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is many of their changes were merged back into Freecad for the 1.0 release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday's mystery print revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Due to the two piece construction here you would have to wrap this whole thing in sealant to keep water out because (to para-quote Dr. Ian Malcolm) “water uhh finds a way”.

  Dab of anti-sieze or stainless hardware would be my go to if I wanted to pull this apart after a couple years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If our present was a dystopian future, you wouldn't believe it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupidest timeline so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Ouchies (Autism/PTSD sensory product) - Slant 3D - 18k units (6:53)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: marketing etc comment at the bottom

  This is certainly marketing, whether for the product or the service. However, it’s also got an educational component which is why I’ve enjoyed Slant3D’s videos - I have no use for a print farm service but some of the ideas and principles they want to encourage still apply to my hobbyist designs. That said, whenever I talk about 3d printing with friends and family, someone will talk about doing it as a business and I point to a service like this for that.

  There is certainly a grey area to balance but I would lump this content in educational and worthy of discussion. And that’s probably the biggest thing to encourage with a post here - where is the discussion going when sharing content. As a community grows in volume of posts, stricter standards and forking off communities for different niches need to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BB being able to protect itself from the big players is actually a success story of patents. The 800 lb gorilla’s of the industry never made as good of a keyboard, but if they could have copied BB’s superior design, they would have stomped them in a heartbeat.

  There’s a lot of shit about what happens for a dying company and selling patents and so forth that absolutely is scummy. Serious discussion needs to happen there, but calling for them to be abolished? That’s just naive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some things are more important.