_bcron_

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[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The shitty thing is that if margins are high enough only a very small minority of owners need to subscribe in order for them to break even and then we get stuck with it for eternity like SiriusXM being implanted into practically everything.

And of course there's no way to just 'opt out' of the hardware via trim levels. Shitty industry in general

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah it's horrible, but I think it's made even worse because the premise and concept sounds like it'd make for a really great game. An open world sandbox of ass kicking, like Hell's Angels meets Fallout with a destructable/interactable environment. It's such a good idea but unfortunately Rockstar didn't pick up on it and we got this instead :-/

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.

I remember binning DDR2 RAM on a test bench back in the day and Windows deactivated itself after about a dozen times lol

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

fully autonomous

How about 'what the fuck is wrong with you?'

Tech bros reinvent the button smh

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Weird thing for you to say to someone basically parroting the IPCC's concerns.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-14/

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

Why would a corporate entity move PP&E to a different country in light of the promise of increasingly favorable tax rates and the threat of tariffs? There's a reason why US and Ireland are havens. Those things are bolted down

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

What if a country that holds half the world's data centers decides to walk out of every global climate accord and start powering those bad boys with fracking due to isolationist trade policies? Won't amount to zero and in less than a month we find out how that ship is changing its heading

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (7 children)

You don't say.

Do you think the USA is incapable of a meaningful increase in global emissions? My original comment is implying the opposite

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (9 children)

That'd be contingent on lots of things, such as random clowns not sabotaging the EPA and selling rights to Federal lands

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

That image is of the bus so it probably requires a 'fleet' type purchase alongside a maintenance contract

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

They still exist as a corporate entity and I wouldn't consider it cruel or malevolent to wholly eradicate them through patent troll litigation. It'd be rich. They're still sitting on dubiously-gotten gains and it doesn't sit right with me that stakeholders will be able to clean out all the pocket change under the couch cushions and walk away

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

The existence of two earlier US patents, 6,584,071 and 6,680,933 for router technology developed by Nortel Networks and Lucent in the 1990s convinced the jury that Sable's '919 patent should never have been granted.

It'd be hilariously awesome if Nortel and Lucent took wind of this and decided to bleed Sable dry in court

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