jonathan

Not true. For example, an EU resident (citizen is the wrong group) purchasing in the US is not covered by EU law.

Residency and place of purchase is what matters, citizenship has nothing to do with it.

I think you’re sort of right. It’s not simply because they’re popular, it’s because the popularity means they get inescapable radio play. Over time you resent it more and more.

I’m not sure you understand how IQ tests work. By their nature they need to have questions of varying difficulty so you can capture a broad spectrum of intelligence.

That would be my guess too, it’s rotating and changing size in a linear sequence.

They rotate them across different SSIDs to make it harder to track you. in a residential setup they should basically never rotate.

The only thing you need to know going in: Jerry Bruckheimer

I think all they can really say is it’s not on the near horizon, but every public company will enshittify at some point. I can’t see a future where the investors will be OK for anything but going public or an acquisition by a public company. It’s just a question of when, and when they start to turn the screw.

I’m not sensitive to either issue, but I’m glad for those that are!

So many of the games I want to play run on Linux now, I no longer have a Windows install available to play this with EAs incompatible anti-cheat. It’s a pity, but I’m not going back.

Flatpaks don’t use system libraries.

I ditched air cooling because of the sound of the fans ramping up and down whenever I did anything briefly intensive, like installing a package.

Have you seen America lately?

He had the car parked up because the registration expired. wtf is he doing driving before he fixed that? No way that dude had the car parked up for 3 years and owns no other cars.

And then you find out they fill the lobbies with bots for your first few games.

“If AI does the menial jobs, that leaves more time for humans to pursue the arts!”

Reality: LLMs creating AI slop and putting artists out of work.

I wouldn’t be too hopeful that the humans get to do the enjoyable work.