TheFogan

Exactly why on so many things it's like... even when it looks like they are getting it, they don't get it. Kind of like watching bluesky rising right now. Unless I'm majorly missing something here. It looks like it's kind of open and kind of federated...

Except in a form that no one can feasibly create their own node. One change in leadership or goals of leadership away, and it can turn into the same neo nazi trash that people are joining it to get away from.

I think the star trek transporter debate is more apt.

I mean if the game is in standard files on the phone... sftp server is more or or less enabled by default, or 1-2 commands to turn on in most linux distributions ("sudo systemctl enable sshd --now" would do it on distro's that don't have it on by default). and plenty of sftp clients available for ios and android. I've never used localsend, but it's pretty explicitly cross platform, snap is default on ubuntu based ones so in their examples it would install from the single command "snap install localsend".

Now running the game assuming it's a made for windows one, just requires wine to be installed. Which is default on some distro's, or a checkbox or single command to install on others, but unlikely to be a huge challenge.

I mean ethically it's kind of in the air. Personally I only recomend pirating when there isn't a viable FOSS alternative, and without very specific reasons IMO there's some nice linux distro's out there. Personally I feel so bogged down when forced to use windows for work or to help others etc... and these days you can run pretty much anything beyond certain online games that refuse to allow linux through their anti-cheat.

Now when it does come to software in general, I guess it depends on the view. IMO there's 3 categories that make a big difference there.

Software is bad/not worth the price: Well if you believe that why use it at all.

Software is good, worth the money but you are broke: Honestly on the whole I agree with pirating in these situations... however I would actually recomend buying it when your finances allow. You should want to support products that you use and help you.

software is good, but exploitative in methods: IE say adobe with their forced subscription models etc... To me that one makes the most sense and probably agree with you.

software is good, but their anti-piracy is stupid: IE a lot of good software programs, throw in anti-piracy measures that wreck the game. IE things that require you to always be connected to a server, that may be unreliable, to access resources that are on your computer. Yeah fuck those guys, definately pirate it.

No actually works on more. If you grind a human into a seive into salt water, pour the salt water into a busy walkway.

After forensics is done in there... the cleanup crew also organizes it into sponges, Mops... and all kinds of tools.

Bottom line, it's basically the exact same intentional misinterpretation that the right does with DEI.

IE what DEI actually calls for: Look for candidates everywhere, give a shot to them all regardless of race or background.

What they act like it is: "You have to pick the minority candidate no matter how underqualified he/she is".

Same concept as the left wants for our candidates. What we want isn't an auto force out the old guys... we want actual fair competitions that picks candidates by their actual abilities and skills, rather than just the assumption that the person who's had that seat for 30 years, should keep it over a new person that wants the job.

I kind of do and kind of don't... Trump is a useful idiot to putin, and maybe a few other groups pulling the actual strings. IMO vance is probably scarier in likelyness to be effective.

Unfortunately so far only republicans have the violent tendencies and willingness to die to make the attempts... and also they just aren't competent enough.

Wait, is this implying the heavy set man with the glass of water is dehydrated and malnourished?

Agreed, though also does need to be scaled with the time you are comparing to's essentials as well. IE land line phones were essential before we reached a point where cellphones are allowed to be used for similar services. But yeah fully agreed in modern times... Essential living cost should be

"Food"

"Rent/Housing"

"Utilities" (IE power/water/Sewage etc...)

"transportation"

"Internet + Celphone".

I think a further thing to point out in this math... is we'd also need to take into account average transportation and food expenses. Because while I'm not smart enough to do the math to calculate it out. On top of say housing relative to income doubling. Prices of necessities also need to be calculated out. If housing costs scaled with wages, but food cost doubled wages, that would still be a large factor on buying power.

actually waiting for that shoe to drop... Oz was announced way early on, but to my knowledge hasn't started the confirmation hearings right?