delcake

joined 1 year ago
[–] delcake@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Apple: "I play Lawyer in attack position."

It's free for Apple honestly, just for unauthorized use of their trademark alone.

[–] delcake@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

That's kind of where I'm at with the whole idea too. Should we be in such a situation, it just moves all our existing questions about "What is reality and the universe?" up one meta-level to the theoretical actual reality. I doubt we would stop finding out as much as is possible about this layer, but we would be wholly unable apply our findings or assumptions to the true reality.

But even if that true reality remains forever unknowable, it at least sets what I would consider some "sensible" bounds on our universe. As things are now, I'm not sure if I'm more dumbfounded by the idea of an infinite universe or a finite one - both boggle the mind for different reasons.

[–] delcake@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I finished that one up last week and loved it! Might be my GotY, honestly.

[–] delcake@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After Unity's clarifications, I'm honestly kind of expecting the old "null-route the web address in the HOSTS file" to be a valid method to prevent their installer from phoning home to increment the counter. It's gonna be incredible if people start trying that just to frick with Unity.

The fact that we can even have this discussion should be proof enough to Unity that it's a complete non-starter of an idea to let user behavior influence the developer bottom-line.

[–] delcake@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I saw that a short while ago and actually laughed out loud. The only thing left is to get the popcorn ready I guess because this is going to be hilarious.

[–] delcake@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Nah, it's per device install. So unless you modify your PC enough to generate a different hardware fingerprint or go install a game on a fleet of laptops or something, most people won't be running up that counter too much.