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Nintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdown
  • Microsoft can still remove all copies.

    Whereas another instance can't delete my account or comments from the instance I'm on. The most they could do is block it from theirs.

    E: no matter how much you downvote, it doesn't change the facts. GitHub is not Federated. It is owned and controlled by Microsoft. If you fork a GitHub project and host it on GitHub, Microsoft can take both down.

  • Starmer faces ‘total humiliation’ with Chagos deal on brink of collapse
  • The whole thing is quite unusual. The UK desperately trying to give up territory and the US not wanting it to happen because they have a shared military base there (which the prior UK/Mauritius deal agrees to lease back anyway).

    The most bizarre part of it is that Mauritius doesn't seem to really want it back. It is, after all, not worth much (especially if the UK/US are retaining their base for 99 years), and is over 1500km away.

    The only angle of it that makes sense why the US may be pissed off about it is that China could start trying to influence or pay off Mauritius, to spy, etc. to the detriment of the US/UK. Which tbf is very much something China would do.

    But why does the UK want rid of this territory so bad?

  • Spotify Disables Modified Apps, Users Unable To Access App
  • Yeah, then everyone stopped using it. Disc drives were on PCs for years after people stopped using them. People took the piss out of new systems with them. It'd be like laptops coming with 5.25" floppy readers.

    You're the one displaying a lack of thinking here.

  • Spotify Disables Modified Apps, Users Unable To Access App
  • Enshittified processor? What are you talking about? Processors are vastly better than they used to be, have much wider functionality, and they're cheaper than they used to be.

    Screens are so much better than they used to be that I feel like you're trolling. Do you want to go back to shitty smeary 16:9 768p TN panels with terrible accuracy, viewing angles, refresh rates, contrast, huge light bleed? Because I sure don't.

    PCs got rid of disc drives because nobody used them and they used up a huge amount of space.

    USB disc drives exist. They are cheap. There's nothing stopping you from using CDs.

  • Angela Merkel defends ties with Russia and blocking Ukraine from Nato
  • Merkel's side of the story never made much sense to me.

    Uncharitably you can say she didn't give a shit about Ukraine/anybody else and knowingly let Russia do as they like, so long as Germany got their gas deliveries.

    It was particularly annoying how she'd dismiss the UK/Poland/others as being misguided or Russophobic when they warned about Russia. As if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine in 2014 and used chemical weapons in the UK to assassinate someone.

    Charitably you can say she was living in a fantasy land where she believed being nice to Russia, trying to integrate them into the west, and give them a platform would be an effective way to transform them into a progressive, democratic society. I can accept that in the 90s, but by the late 2000s it was clear that wasn't happening.

    Neither of those are a good look.

  • [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers
  • Well yeah, even if you designed the most ergonomic thing that's ever been created, there will always be some it doesn't work for, because everybody is different.

    And when you go onto a popular forum and look for people who feel the same, you will find some, even if the vast majority find it comfortable.

    Reviews pretty much all said the deck is very ergonomic.

  • Windows is not free as in freedom
  • For what it's worth, if you want an office suite that's perhaps not as feature-rich as Libre Office, but has an appearance and UX like MS Office, as well as better compatibility with MS Office out of the box, there's always OnlyOffice.

    It's especially good if you're putting it on a parent's PC who's only used MS Office before.

  • ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers
  • Lol

    I've only had one ISP with excellent service, and it was a small family-run one. It was pretty expensive, too. The rest have ranged from "ok I guess" to "oh my god, I vow never to deal with these shitcunts again for the rest of my days".

    Besides, logically, if the ISPs really were a pleasure to deal with, then surely making it easy to switch would be welcomed, no? People would see how good your service is then switch to you.

    Curious. Almost like they're chatting complete and utter bollocks.

  • Māori painting fetches record price in NZ auction
  • The NZ$3.75m ($2.2m; $1.7m) sale

    Well that's just confusing. You'd assume that one of those is US dollars and the other one is.... Idk... Australian dollars?

    Checking the exchange rate, it turns out that it's a typo. The $1.7m should say £1.7m

  • Max getting progressively more drunk as he goes through his post-race interviews
  • Heineken is 5%, so a fairly normal strength. If anything, out of the global mass-market lagers, it's one of the stronger ones.

    You can definitely get drunk from Heineken, without much effort. It's not Carlsberg or Budweiser light.

  • where did it go

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