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There is a Defcon talk on libraries and the threat they face from government and capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJT6_OcY_dc

Archive.org is the largest digital library, a very new concept, that I know of and they are constantly being sued.

Tinfoil Hat Time

I’m pretty sure Pokemon Go was used, successfully, by law enforcement to look for the bodies of missing people.

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pokemon-go-body-river-wyoming-leads-woman/

• https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/pokemon-go-player-finds-dead-body-in-new-hampshire-park/520-6577bd86-9e2d-4dbd-8f6c-de828dcf297e

• https://laist.com/news/pokemon-go-body

• https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/man-playing-pokemon-go-finds-dead-body-nashua-nh/

• https://mashable.com/article/pokemon-go-dead-body-discovered

• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-dead-body-pokemon-go-20160715-snap-story.html

• https://www.10news.com/news/pokemon-go-players-discover-body-at-marian-bear-memorial-park

• https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/wyoming-teen-finds-dead-body-while-playing-pokemon-go/523-47e3fd94-be65-40bd-a201-6507ffcc0a52

• https://www.ksat.com/news/2016/08/26/pokemon-go-players-find-mans-body-in-new-braunfels-cemetery/

And the list goes on.

When the game was new I suspect that law enforcement were asked to provide lists of areas they would like to search but did not have the time or manpower to cover, and that these areas were used as points of interest in the game.

There is also the fact that the CEO of pokemon go’s developer/publisher was partly funded by the CIA when his company was building what would end up being Google Maps. I would be surprised if he didn’t keep a few contacts in the government given his career.

Maybe I’m paranoid, maybe a boom of people wandering around aimlessly would have found just as many bodies.

If libraries did not exist and you purposed them today, you would be labeled a pirate and likely used into oblivion by the 3 or 4 massive companies that “own” all media. It’s not strange that there is an overlap in the tools needed to preserve media in a robust, distributed way, and the tools used to distribute movies, music, and books.

It means stop using, investing in, pumping up the fucking AI bubble.

Personal computing is gonna be set back a decade because people are too lazy to write their own documents or make a 30 second search.

Sooo don’t buy in. Steam, Itch and GoG have covered all my gaming needs for a decade. Why look anywhere else?

I have an Xbox 360 controller that has been awesome, takes AA batteries.

Switched 10 years ago. Nearly everything anyone does on a desktop/laptop is browser based lately and while I missed a few Windows exclusive applications there was always a reasonable alterative.

My only regret is not trying harder to make the switch in the 00’s, I would have been ahead of the game and could have used it as a career path.

Bruh, install HL2, they added commentary!

The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.

FAFO. If you don’t want to control your computer then you wont have control over your computer.

You know what doesn’t have onedrive? Every other OS.

They come with W11 but I wouldn’t say users are forced to use it. My first boot is always into the Debian netinstaller.

The TPM2 requirement is purely to drum up sales for hardware vendors and ensure that they keep bundling Windows with their machines.

Making shareholders happy by increasing profits and padding the CEO’s ego Theft and corruption certainly is.

And the whole thing where they are trying to dial back rights for everyone but rich white men.

I have a single W10 machine left and that’s only for VR, everything else is Debian and I couldn’t be happier. It only does what I tell it to, updates never break stuff, the Debian repository has literally everything I need.

The 20min a week I spend on W11 PCs at work has only cemented in my mind how much I do not want to deal with that shit.

I have an android phone and hate every second of it. Next time I get a new phone it’s getting GraphineOS on day one.

So much for my Steam Machine plans.

Welp, enjoy your rootkits and privacy violations.

Daily Debian since 2015, zero regrets.

Looks fun but Windows only is a dealbreaker.

No on hates their own fans more than Nintendo. Pirate everything they sell.

Wait, this ISN’T an Onion article?

Why the hell would Plex get you banned?

Gatekeeping, pixel peeping, number wank. Play on hardware you can afford, don’t let some guy with affiliate links tell you that you are gaming wrong.

If the game is genuinely fun, no, it’s all wank. I still use an HDD and the load times are long but not long enough to justify buying more stuff.

Oh no, anyway.

Data collection subsidized ewaste machines.

I doubt the quality of your work.

FATALITY!

A decade ago you tried Linux and it was hard, try again or butt out. Windows has become even more of a privacy violating, data snorting, market manipulating whore in that time and it will not stop.

I’ll bet they roll out subscription based drivers before you make a legitimate atempt.

Is it all in your browser, because pretty much everything is a web app now.

sometiems you do see stuff you didn’t want to without seeking it out

I certainly didn’t want to see you on the internet today but I’m not calling to cancel Lemmy.

The reason I know about incest games existing on steam is because it showed up on my recommendations or something once, without me actively seeking it out.

Only if you clicked the little checkbox to enable sexually explicit games to be recommended.

I guess just don’t see how they’d think “ok we got rid of the rape and incest, now let’s go Nazi on everything else”

It doesn’t have to be full Nazi, a right wing CEO could decide that all trans content is immoral and should not be sold. This wingnut Australian group already has their sights set on non-hetero games.

so why should people have to see that on their computers in the first place?

You don’t have to see anything online, (unless you are on a mind rotting infinite scroll). When you want to see something or play a game you have to actively seek it out.

This issue is that once there is a precedent set for payment processors manipulating markets they wont stop. Just like the zombies on tiktok that say “un-alive” because they thin the word “died” will have them kicked off the internet, publishers and developers will get nervous that their game may not sit well with a payment processor for some reason like religion, racial heritage, or opinions on sexual orientation and gender, and they will be unable to sell their game.

This content occurs in the Bible, should it also be banned from sale?

Yes.

Crypto was supposed to do this but it’s too fractured and volatile now.

Fuuuuuck Nintendo. No one hates their fans more than Nintendo.

They are bricking brand new consoles, locking their USB ports to approved hardware, charging for the tech demo that would customarily be free on an $800 device. And that’s just this year.

Test it out on an old PC, you gotta have one hanging around the house. After a couple of weeks you’ll wonder how you got anything done without it.

And so you spend hours tweaking the UI only to have it nuked by an update. If you’re gonna rice your desktop, run Linux!

I read a long time ago that delays had to be added to desktop UIs because users didn’t think the computer was “working” if it responded in a single video frame. Maybe the M$ LLM read that too and took it to heart.