trafficnab

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[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As the distance between two species widens, viable (ie, not sterile) offspring become rarer and rarer (although not impossible), so there would be a biological incentive not to "waste time" banging something that looks too different from yourself

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah but I don't think the average smash and grab thief is going to be smart enough to recognize the potential value of the data on the laptop, they're just going to pawn the thing off as quickly as possible

Anyone smart enough to want the data probably doesn't need to smash a window, they'll just access the data remotely when the computer is on and the drive is unencrypted

So even then, it only protects you from the very narrow overlap of thieves who are dumb enough to need to break into cars for a living, but smart enough to harvest data off of stolen laptops

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

I still stand by full disk encryption accomplishing almost nothing for the average user but separating them from their own files

If you don't have data on your PC that someone might be willing to kill you for, you probably don't need it, and Microsoft enabling it by default for Win11 installs is crazy

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Correct, the entire concept of physically backed digital lending is being threatened, and many physical libraries contracted with IA to digitize their books and then facilitate digitally lending their physical copies to their patrons

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry sweaty, but saying anything bad about authoritarian governments (aside from Israel) is xenophobia, you're clearly just suffering from transnationalism and were born in the wrong country

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

I appreciate skibidi toilet, it's good to know that even across generations, children still yearn for stupid gmod videos

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is true and public knowledge though as I said (details seen here in the "Steam Key Rules and Guidelines" section), if anything Valve is giving devs a lot of leeway by allowing them to do that at all, not only are they giving up their 30% cut but are also then distributing and committing to updating those copies of the game for free

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This suit seems to just be vaguely, "30% is too high", along with requiring that DLC for a game bought on Steam also be bought on Steam, it was the Wolfire case back in 2021 that alleged they're not allowed to sell their game for cheaper on other platforms

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

As far as I know, this only applies to Steam keys: developers are allowed to generate Steam keys for free to sell on their website (Valve does not get 30% of these sales either) with the restriction being they cannot be cheaper than the price on Steam

I don't think there's ever actually been any proof that Valve disallows selling games for cheaper elsewhere as long as you're not selling those freely generated Steam keys

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Why would NATO have any say in if they accept or not? What would the threat be if they do, they stop providing them with arms and ammunition? Surely, if Russia is indeed so benevolent, Ukraine wouldn't need them going forward in this hypothetical peace?

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry but most people don't read Pravda

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

"But you see, hohol, if you just let me win the war, then there will be peace!"

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