Digital media means that there is an ongoing service behind it.

I could download my file and be done with it. If I throw away or damage my super fragile bluray I’m not entitled to a new copy. I don’t even need to be able to redownload (although it’s a nice service). It means there is an ongoing service behind it because they decide it and because they are afraid I will share with my friends - which is about as difficult as finding the media elsewhere online.

With no more cash coming in, the service goes bankrupt.

Same issue with physical media. Suddenly your expensive factory is idle, your employees don’t produce anything. We still get to buy movies and not rent them perpetually.

Why I don’t get is why they fight so hard to promote piracy though. It’s not enough that it’s free, it also has to be easier?

Nah. But attacking Jews who have no part in the genocide merely because they are Jews is.

I too came to the comments to look that up. It means poor, apparently.

Lemmy.ml sucks. I really need to move on.

I guess it was Mark Zuckerbergs lucky day then…

An Enermax keyboard has been my daily driver as a programmer for my career that started in 2007. It still works just fine and I still have no reason to change to something else. Lots of reasons not to, since I like the classic keyboard layout and the flat laptop keys.

Oh, so it’s not that she is a fan who happens to be large.

It’s also not that she is very fanatic about countries.

It’s that she’s moderately fond of large nations!

Who would have thought that a box of all things would be a useful cat repellant.

By that reasoning the nukes dropped over Japan is but an insignificant moment in history and of no importance what so ever.

I’m a software engineer too. I’ll tell you what changed. I have a kid. Daycare was shut down, but since both my wife and I can work from home we were expected to do just that. We got to spend a lot of time with the then two year old, but hardly saw each other except for the back of the head because one of us was always working. What was your corona project? Surviving, that’s what!

Oh, he’ll just change the unit test if it fails.

An AI tool was used to add an extra layer to the editing process for this story.

For crying out loud, stop that!

And OIL!

Well, neither is iso…

singular they/them has been in use for literally centuries

Even if has been in use since forever, a more appropriate word can be introduced now.

Why?

I’m chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.

I mostly listen on headphones during my workday. I very much prefer to listen on speakers though.

Honestly I think one of the bigger hurdles is the confusion about where to sign up. You have to choose an instance, preferably one that is “compatible” with you. But it hardly matters to the user because it’s all federated anyway. Just give me a server that will stay up.