While their intentions are good, this will unfortunately probably lead to them losing their last two domain names.

There should be an option to turn it all off for those who don’t want to be spied on though.

Also, features like remote start could be implemented to function over a local network rather than needing to connect to the internet at all.

With streaming companies owning the content, buying DVDs is just another way of financially supporting the same companies for worse quality.

Even when one piracy platform is taken down, there are new ones launched in their place. Nothing guarantees that DVDs will continue to be produced in perpetuity, just as digital copies of video games are progressively becoming less and less prevalent.

None of the benefits existed before the EU existed. Countries economically benefit from joining the EU due to those novel benefits, but in absence of them, countries otherwise don’t lose anything they had already by not joining.

Not interested if it’s on .ml.

By that argument, the EU would be ‘punishing’ countries for not joining in the first place. EU membership comes with benefits and obligations; countries can choose to leave to avoid the obligations, but the benefits only come as a result of fulfilling them.

Valve is definitely the best and the most innovative, particularly in contrast to Epic’s attempt to bribe their way to success and intentionally ignoring Linux, but even the best have their faults.

The link would embed better if you used the direct URL rather than the Google redirect.

Potential evidence being destroyed just by giving the Internet access to it.

Wine can be set up in a similar way, but Valve’s default setup is designed to for use with Steam first and foremost.

A bigger issue is that the Steam Deck touchpads don’t work without Steam being open. A more open approach would have been to write independent driver software for the touchpads.

Valve’s far and away better than Nintendo, but has still designed the Steam Deck to be heavily reliant upon Steam to function. The Steam Deck is priced in a way that anticipates increased consumer usage of Steam, but in isolation of Steam, it would be more usable as a Linux PC if it were more software-agnostic.

Valve’s better than Epic Games, but they still have every incentive to keep users in their ecosystem with DRM. To that end, the Steam Deck’s Proton compatibility layer and touchpad driver are integrated into Steam, rather than functioning independently of it.

Using the Steam Deck is possible without buying any games on Steam, but making Steam the core part of the distribution inherently encourages its usage.

Edit: I like the Steam Deck, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to point out the aspects of the platform designed to encourage the use of Steam.

There’s understandably strategic reasons for undercounting losses, but actual Ukrainian army deaths are sadly about twice as high.

Thankfully, approximately three Russian soldiers have been killed for every Ukrainian soldier.

The extent of transphobia in the UK is disgusting.

Any remnant of Copilot left anywhere on the operating system is still a loss for the user and their privacy. Microsoft still wants user data, so they’re not going to be getting rid of Copilot any time soon.

He’s crazy, and therefore doing more harm than good in advocating for piracy.

Improving webapp functionality rather than stuffing more and more AI down our throats, for instance.

.org, .se, and .in were revoked as a result of the Spotify announcement, unfortunately. .li and .pm are left.

1.5 million websites that, whether obscure or not, deserve to be indexed no less than the many obscure GitHub pages that Microsoft is sure to index.

The Associated Press shouldn’t take their ‘glitch’ claims at face value.

Some things I’ve tried getting before (typically 2160p television episodes) were only readily available as DDL files (missing from easily accessible private trackers like TorrentLeech), for which Real-Debrid is useful.