I think they just made their post title the same as the linked article title, which generally seems to be the accepted “thing to do” on Lemmy. The OP also hasn’t said anything in the comments - seems like a lot of posts are just bots linking to maybe-relevant articles?

Considering the linked article is dated from the 4th, where it went from nearly 28 down to 23.40, that’s nearly 20% drop.

That’s a fun theory, but the discs have so little to do with most gaming these days anyway I think you are just as likely to get hosed due to some licensing or account bullshit with a disc as you are without. Seems less and less games work just from the disc every year.

It’s worse, that was when the industry realized we weren’t using our phones how they wanted, so they had to start cramming this shit in our cars and door bells and thermostats because they couldn’t reliably monitor the entire populace just through phones. We (corpos) need smart smoke alarms (surveillance devices), legally mandated in every room of the house, to keep us safe (monitored) 24/7.

Thank you for the info, I will look into it when I get home tonight.

Dumb question but… It says that patches were committed to mainline on April 1st. How would one know if their distro has already fixed this via updates or not? I run a rolling-release distro on my desktop and laptop, and usually update once every week (or two at most) so have already ran updates 2 or 3 times since the patch was deployed. Am I likely good? If I’m not, is running updates all I need to do to be good? How would I know?

I haven’t tried that but don’t think it would work because the system isn’t checking what browser is used and returning an error message, they have literally coded the web tools in such a way that when running in Firefox, it just doesn’t ever respond. If you try doing the same action in Opera, it literally crashes the entire browser. If you try to use Edge, the tab crashes. I’m not convinced they’ve done this on purpose, I think they just cobbled stuff together and only bothered testing on Chrome and called it good when it stopped crashing for them.

Lol, they don’t. We have some of the worst IT people… Most of our computers are still on Windows 10 and just haven’t been getting updates because they didn’t setup extended update support properly.

And then there is my company IT department wanting to forcibly uninstall anything that isn’t chrome because “chrome is the only secure option”. They literally made our company tools that are browser based just not work with anything that isn’t chrome to curb people trying to use other browsers. :(

That’s for your daily driver desktop right? Right??

The regulations also only cover consumer routers… I foresee more people getting racks installed in their house soon, lol.

They make it illegal to distribute, install, use, etc. They make it illegal to sell, distribute, build, etc. any printer that can run on Marlin (hoping to force manufacturers to block anyone installing non-oem firmware on the machines at all).

I’m not saying it’s reasonable or feasible, but the people making the laws clearly don’t know or care about any of that.

Edit - If they make enough stuff illegal, they don’t need to catch you breaking the law when they decide to arrest you. They just arrest you and then figure out which crimes you were committing.

Lithium can be a pretty metal, but I’m not sure it looks its best in this state.

That’s kind of what they already want to do, or are trying to do with this legislation. And the age verification stuff has no exception for open-source. The people behind this stuff absolutely want to kill any and all open source, both hardware and software.

I believe the entire goal of RepRap was to build a machine that could build all the parts needed to build another machine. Most of the parts for a lot of machines are either 3d printable or bog-standard off-the-shelf parts that could be used for millions of other things. I have a feeling the really scary target would be software, something similar to the draconian age-verification BS being run around.

Not sure about the California bill, but the similar shit out of Washington state does have language for subtractive manufacturing as well as additive. They basically are targeting any computer controlled manufacturing.

It all feels so obviously stupid when there are people on the internet selling partially complete metal parts with instructions for how to finish them completely unrestricted. They obviously aren’t worried about stopping the “ghost gun problem”, they are worried about people having the means of production and the right to repair things they own.

It has to be a butthole. That’s the popular current trend.

What does that have to do with anything here?? I don’t know about you, but my likeness is not permanently located in a public space…

Freedom of panorama (FoP) is a provision in the copyright laws of various jurisdictions that permits taking photographs and video footage and creating other images (such as paintings) of buildings and sometimes sculptures and other art works which are permanently located in a public space, without infringing on any copyright that may otherwise subsist in such works, and the publishing of such images.

Same scam as before, just made a lot easier by AI bullshit unfortunately.

does VoLTE work? Basically all carriers in the us use this and we knocked down all of the old tech towers. My understanding is the EU still has all the old towers up for just voice calls and don’t need VoLTE to work.

Quick web search suggests it is a “beta” feature at best currently :(