I’m fine with people continuing to do shit like this. Don’t profit off of it. Flood the entire internet with so much made up shit it waters down their brand into nothing.

That’s a slippery slope fantasy in and of itself but I would love to see it 😅

I do what any sane person does. I remove their stupid filter off their line outside of my house and plug it into the back of my TV for free.

They can’t stop the broadcast signal so when they turn off your cable they install the filter in the line. It’s about the size of a d cell battery.

Don’t be rooting around and touching lines or cables if you can’t tell the difference between a coax an rj45 and THHN #6. Two of those are safe and one of those could end your life if it’s live.

In tandem with my current settings. Adding a Firefox add on to spoof my user agent worked for me. I set it to random and disabled all the Firefox user agents.

Nothing. I didn’t buy it nor review bomb it. I watched the gameplay and scoffed at how yet again we were being spoon fed more mediocre Bethesda content.

The thing is, I want to love them. I used to be obsessed with the lore from Fallout and I’m embarrassed to admit how much time I spent playing ESO. It sucks but if I keep giving them my money I’m just basically saying “it’s okay you screwed me over”. If they really want my money again they have to shape up both their buggy software and their business practices.

More progress than “better at being a Bethesda game than Fo4”.

I was a die hard Bethesda fan prior to 76 and they need to do better than par to earn my favor back. They scorned me and my wallet isn’t going to forget that any time soon.

I’m not convinced. Where can I find these sex bots so I can test this theory… for science…

I’d bet dollars to donuts that a hedge fund has recently opened a short position. This stinks of corruption all the way through.

It’s not just the app. I’m sure the website is collecting obscene amounts of data as well.

When I’m finished I’m putting my game on GitHub so everyone can see it.

Sounds good to me. I don’t have a problem with less companies making shitty code that’s has proprietary access.

Hell yeah! I think the public should have the right to inspect any software at any time. If you want it to go into my computer I think I should know if your sloppy ass spaghetti code is going to open me up to security vulnerabilities.

My budget is only about one jillion dollars, so I hope you’re willing to negotiate 😅

I’d say that’s an accurate summary of my activities. It’s nice to plug in one usb and hit the buttons as needed. I hate fiddling around with it since micro SD cards are super easy to lose track of.

I’ve got a bunch of high capacity SD cards that i converted into little storage drives. I throw movies and tv shows I download onto them and it’s great for handing off to a friend or throwing into a device real quick.

I got these individual usb SD card readers but they get really hot if you leave them on all the time. So it’s nice to only turn it on when I need to read or write to them. The added security benefit is that when they are off you literally can’t hack them.

I just picked up a 7 port USB hub with I/O switches for each one. I got this for my backup drives. It’s also powered so that’s cool.

You can’t hack my personal shit if it’s not even turned on to begin with.

Correct, but this one absolutely is a flawed argument.

Linux is 2% and mac is higher but I don’t know that figure off the top of my head. The amount of users still on Windows XP is shockingly high overseas. In any case. There is no easy way to implement, enforce or otherwise enable compliance on this. Hard drives are a core functionality of a computer ecosystem and there is no way I can see local storage being disabled so a handful of cloud based software solutions can turn a bigger profit. It just causes way too many issues.

What about Linux? What about Mac? What if the user is using a “no longer supported” version of windows. Those won’t be getting updates.

This issue is extremely problematic and these are some of the variables that need consideration. Nothing is as simple as flipping a switch.

Just one highlight of how this is ridiculous and an obvious slippery slope fallacy.

How can you even legally enforce this? In the US you can’t just walk into someone’s house and start searching for hard drives. You need a warrant and probable cause. Since it’s likely going to be a misdemeanor this is highly unenforceable. Nobody is willingly going to let their home be searched by the police for the gain of some corporate shithead.

Also you can’t retroactively make all drives illegal, so older devices like floppy’s, tapes, CDs and other storage media. Where do they fall into this spectrum? You would have to specify a lot of what is considered legal local storage and what isn’t. It would be a litigious nightmare.