Ad block is NOT piracy. And use Ublock Origin.

Doesn’t Kasa phone home to China?

Based on my experience working in a call center, I wouldn’t call it unnecessary. People are fucked up.

Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.

Steve did it with Newegg. Tech Jesus has balls when gamers/enthusiasts are getting screwed.

Ironically, that is why I wanted Stadia to succeed. It would have forced many game companies to consider Linux.

But Google screwed the pooch.

Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.

Way back in the day, my best friend had a family friend that owned a computer software store. He rented games and gave us copies of the latest and greatest copy programs with a wink-wink and a nudge-nudge.

Remember, no business is required to tell the truth. Had a pipeline go through my backyard and you would not believe the lies that company told. Glad I lawyered up instead of believing the lies.

Only if you sold it. Back when cassette tapes first came out, the mystic music industry sued, and the Supreme Court ruled it fair use. So VHS tapes were under the same umbrella. We wouldn’t get that same ruling now.

Holy hell, that was one hell of an autocorrect on mobile.

It the same mechanism. They can do it, they just don’t want to.

It’s the 90s webguru all over again!

They can. I buy and gift games to my son all the time.

Including cell calling?

That info can go stale quickly as content licensing changes. I’ve ran into that plenty.

There are still plenty of good deals in streaming if you have shifted to on-demand. If you want live TV or sports, they’re out to gouge the fuck out of you. Luckily my Wife came around to on-demand only and an antenna. Of course, they’re trying hard to take away the antenna option from everyone with ATSC 3.0.

I’ve seen this before in the 90s. The companies that forced out the best, highest paid staff always suffered.

This is going to be a pyric victory like when they sued Google where they won, but then the traffic and views dropped through the floor.

Attacking piracy AND competition in one fell swoop! Capitalism!

My best comment ever in Reddit was describing Lord of the Rings as programming.