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2030: Come on, it’s just 50 bottle caps, it’s basically the price of a coffee.

He’s probably got a full copy of the Trump-Epstein files to hang over the orange Cheeto, and honestly Trump doesn’t actually care, he’s still looting everything from the American people either way

I’m perpetually tired and stuck in a loop. Full time job, and carer for a disabled parent.

It’s not easy, I do get frustrated, but I would not change it because it would make things worse for mum.

I have no doubt the training data includes drunk players, so yes!

Still more coherent than what the Orange Cheeto can actually manage these days

It’s gone downhill in some regards (enshittification for free accounts), but I’m still using Plex and plexamp for my audio setup. Works equivalent to a self hosted Spotify.

Should have gone with Danny DeVito.

At this point, only Amazon prime, and only because of the free shipping and prime gaming free games (I just ignore video and music) Everything else is either adblock (YouTube) or questionably acquired (yarr!).

They (companies offering streaming services) had their chance and got greedy, so stopped paying for Netflix and Spotify years ago.

Not a subscription service, but I do buy PC games on Steam, and the occasional bit of physical media.

Enshittification, just like with online services.

But Few Purchase Software (Bits, Frames, Packets, Segments)

I appreciate the joke and agree. At the same time, whatever mind is there is just… Not right

Trump doesn’t care about that. He cares about the optics and the opinion of the last person to speak with him. Nothing else even exists in his mind.

That’s kind of telling in itself to be honest. Services for most people these days mean subscription (or some kind of recurring cost). The nature of the overwhelming majority of businesses means they will be looking to increase profits. One extremely common way is to degrade the service you provide slightly. Increasing ads, lowering quality, etc.

One of the only exceptions I would say is Steam. But people could argue that Steam isn’t a true service because it’s closer to a store front, at that point you’re arguing semantics though.

There’s also self hosting a service to consider? How would that count in this instance. I self host a few things like nextcloud, Plex, and others. Yes it’s still a program and technically a service as well?

I had just finished high school and enrolled in TAFE (think vocational/skills training) studying a certificate III in IT, then certificate 4. Then in 2008 an advanced diploma in network security.

I’ve forgotten most of the specifics over time, but the core ideas I’ve picked up then and along the way have definitely helped in my current IT job.

Yes, but while one side can accept it, Turnip throws a tantrum

Please drink a verification laxative?

I’ll be interested to see how this differs from nextcloud AIO, which is what I currently run for my own stuff.

Honestly back when I was a kid this is how I thought games were made, every possible image of a game was already saved and according to your input it just loaded the next image.

I stopped thinking that with 3d games

In that case uwuntu for life.

I’ve put a few smart lights/switches/sensors/power points in at home. Definitely helps mum as we can have wireless switches for the lights, and motion sensors to turn the hallway lights on automatically as well.

For ALL of them, I make sure there is a manual control that will work as a backup regardless. Even if a smart light is “off” due to the motion sensor not detecting movement, all you need to do is turn the old regular light switch off then back on and the light will default to being back on.