Andy and Bill’s law 2.0, let’s go

https://youtu.be/9tPecc6PUDU

Wouldn’t a wiki be all you need though? Most games and media communities have pretty well made ones maintained, and I’m sure checking categories on Bulbapedia would avoid any hallucination nonsense.

After reading about the ELIZA effect, I both learned how people are super susceptible to this, and just need to remember the core tenants of it to avoid getting affected:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

Feesh

If they broke LTSC editions for shits and giggles, I suppose. But that would make the people upstairs mad enough to actually take action on M$.

I mean the beauty is there’s probably a community or discord for that. A lot of fringe interests tend to have one brave group organizer to keep the conversation going.

Out of Cruel Space? That’s basically entirely based on the premise of “Human engineering was only limited to the biological/physical/rational laws of their own galaxy”

“Inner peace.”

-Master Shifu, Kung Fu Panda

Former education IT contractor, it’s majority chromebooks now, with physical books generally being either stationed inside classrooms or held in long-term storage “just in case”. (USA west coast classrooms)

The main issue is that Chromebooks, especially ones used for public schools, are largely “built to cost”, and are locked down with frustrating amounts of bloatware and software/network restrictions, and are usually beaten to shit by the previous year’s student body (about 40% of the chromebooks I looked at had to be sent to “reclamation” because they were not worth repairing nor were usable for spare parts).

When I was going to high school, I bought a second hand chromebook off eBay and installed a Linux distro (forget which one now), and it was an amazing experience, with a much easier time accessing materials and completing assignments compared to my peers. These machines really can be great, but if left to the school’s requirements for being “locked down”, and handled by careless people, they’re guaranteed to suck.

Backpack for me was a lot lighter in high school than middle school tho XD

So you’re saying 4chan was a trend-setter for geoguessr? XD

Don’t even need to do that. No immobilizer, you can just LPL the situation or hotwire.

Commodities tend to hold value pretty well, especially in poorer areas/nations, and if the operation is decentralized, the risks for the organizers is near zero.

If something is able to be easily taken with a plausible disguise or with low risk (the ol’ hard hat, safety vest and clipboard “security pass”, or just an unguarded jobsite) there will be opportunists.

For someone with greater skills, that’s low hanging fruit that’s not worth the risk of getting caught on camera, but the more desperate you are, the more risk you’re willing to accept.

Of course, taking cable in the first place is a dick move and will negatively impact the local area and utilities as a whole, so it’s a slap in the face for the entire community tbh. Some people don’t care though…

Branding and public image is a large part of currency circulation, as far as I’m aware. My first impression and instinctual thoughts on cryptocurrencies as a whole are vehicles for money-laundering and general fraud, even if there are examples to the contrary.

Same reason why the Russian ruble or the Chinese Yuan aren’t generally used as foreign reserve currencies for the majority of nations - too volatile, and histories of manipulation.

That’s fair. The ball is in Paypal’s court anyway, but I guess digital/prepaid gift cards could also be on the table as well.

For a lot of games, especially games with low budgets that don’t make physical distribution possible (most indies on PC), they’re reliant on digital distribution, and Steam is the place for the majority of PC gamers to obtain their library. Also generally speaking for PC, physical distribution (apart from pirated files and niche scenarios), is basically already dead.

As for the regional pricing issue, Steam/Valve already looks at IP and regional activity (say a NA user temporarily VPN’s into Ukraine for a cheap price and then kills the VPN and plays from an NA ip afterwards) to flag accounts and restrict them from purchasing games in the future or gifting them to others. Because of that, I don’t think an increased volume of gift cards would be the issue (stolen credit cards are far more of a headache for Valve).

Yeah, that seems to be the best option for people w/o credit cards. It was useful for me before I got mine.

Maybe it’s possible that they can make some sort of pre-paid card esque solution, rather than fixed amounts?

My provider unfortunately doesn’t, so I have to rely on PayPal as the proxy. I use USD, so I guess I won’t be too affected, but it is a bummer that I can’t seem to ditch them.

I actually think ramping up their gift card distribution to more countries might be more effective imo, since people have access to cash or payment systems at physical stores.

“Arrogant user gets hit with RCE in 2026 (or 2033 with IOT), claims ignorance of the consequences of being on an OS branch with no security updates”