Yep, sure do.

keeps pirating

Let’s create millions of copies of BOTW and delete them so Nintendo loses a few billion.

Preservation is an invasive and destructive process. Recreating the experience of watching ‘The Daily Show’ in the 90s or early '00s is already impossible. Language and culture mildew and rot just like leather and wood.

EDIT: People don’t seem to understand what I’m talking about. Even the people who are responding in good faith seem confused. That’s on me. So I thought I’d try to clarify with an example.

Take the Mona Lisa. Perhaps one of the most preserved objects in history. It’s so well preserved that it’s impossible to see. Sure, you can look at it, but you won’t see it. Taking a picture of the painting is encouraged, but you can’t get a look at it in your camera roll either.

If you saw the actual painting hanging on a friend’s wall, your first thought would probably not be “what a masterpiece”, but “why didn’t they remove the default print that came with the frame”? If you go to Paris, you can wait in line to have the “Mona Lisa experience” but the painting you saw wasn’t hanging on the wall, what you’ll see is the Mona Lisa you brought with you.

(yes, I stole this example from ‘were in hell’ youtube channel)

Figured I’d make a copy. Who knows, the OP might change it in the future. Gotta preserve the past and all.

Yep, my shelf of DVDs of movies I loved growing up became 4TB of media on a Jellyfin server, cloned to a cold drive I leave in my closet.

Well there’s borrowing, but I feel that’s what we’re all already doing.

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All the more reason to buy their next system at V1.0 with 0 games.

…keep it in the box for a year and keep an eye on a hack hitting the news.

Joke’s on you, we all use btrfs with snapper.

We are very aware!

As much as any treaties and agreements made anywhere else, if I had to guess.

Hardly any. I feel two might be optimistic.

I imagine they’re still searching for the network despite not being able to reach anything, so maybe a local hack would be possible near the vehicle, but remotely? Idk.

My personal strategy to avoid this situation is to just not buy a car with those “features”. If I can’t know before I buy it, then I won’t bother to care to know. Keep your secrets, I’ll keep my $.

At some level, I’d put the blame of some of this on the consumer.

Something being a scam on some level should be the inherent suspicion of basically everything you intend to purchase. The chances a product is straightforward and trustworthy seem to be far less likely these days than the opposite.

If the data isn’t being paid for anymore, they can’t connect to anything at all. Is T-Mobile or Verizon or whoever expected to foot the bill ten years down for no reason? There may be some definitions of connecting I’m missing, but I reasoned a data connection over some sort of cellular network.

But then, if it’s some hidden proprietary magic on some unused bands, who knows?

My mom won’t stop continually trying to cure her type 1 diabetes with every conceivable bullshit product known to mankind, assured by God and stubbornness that it can be done. Most of it, she hides from her doctor.

This week it’s mushroom coffee. Last month it was CBD pills. Usually always from Facebook ads. I give her a lecture every time. She ignores it every time. It’s basically all she spends he money on and you can’t tell her not to. Sometimes it isn’t even an online product and I’ll find every salt container in the trash can.

we don’t eat salt anymore, it’s the problem

Then I have to wrestle all of it back out, explain the history of cooking from 2000 years to now and why is important then ask who on earth told her that.

Every. Single. Week and she falls for it every single time. Ugh.

He obviously doesn’t think anyone will do anything about it.

He’s right, they probably won’t.

Oddly enough, the cars will be more secure used since all of those online features will be defunct and abandoned for newer, more “advanced” shitware in ten years.

Continuing the tradition that buying used is always a good idea. Thank you, auto industry.

Two already tried.

(I know, I know)

Then your plan is kinda flawed from the start, eh?

They’ll strap him to a chair and sacrifice 1000 2fort snipers a day to keep him alive.

GoG is just as well. Epic, Ubishit, EA.

Take a look at all of them and take the best choice for yourself. No monopoly, here. Steam isn’t paying EA and Ubisoft to suck. They’d suck if Valve existed or not.

Steam isn’t the only choice for a gamer any more than a cheap Civic is the only choice for a poor college freshman.

He could do a lot worse.

that’s satire, right?.. right, guys?

Bro, look, there’s an open wifi network here now. Signal kinda sucks out here. Imma try it.

…it’s loading a login screen

they want my employee number

close it and never think about using it again