That sounds like ea making an excuse for why they were voted worst company. I don’t doubt that they got those emails and letters but I doubt that was the major reason they got voted worst. That was a year they had a lot of gaming controversies
Sure, in this case it was rich idiots spending millions, they’re only upset that they missed the opportunity to pawn it off to another idiot first
Even still, they take 30% of a studio’s revenue which is a ridiculous amount that’s only possible through a near monopoly
They’re all con artists. The people buying them were trying to scam someone else.
No, it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s not a ponzi scheme, it’s just a good old fashioned investment scheme.
The benefit is that you could have a distributed marketplace. Instead of having monopolies like steam where one company accumulates a bunch of power they can abuse you could have multiple small companies band together to support a common standard of ownership so you could buy from any company and all the companies supporting the standard would respect it. You could also tie it to a legal contract so it’s actually enforceable.
Of course you could just do that with an centralized standard that’s backed by multiple companies too.
NFT buyers were also scammers since their intention was to sell it off to the next patsy
They weren’t even uniquely drawn, they just mr potato head combined a handful of components
Yeah, people need to post in a lemmy drama community or something, I’m sick of it and would like to read about something else.
Yup, they’re a big target and being a big target means more liability. Spreading the fediverse is good for us all. It means taking down piracy is like whack a mole.
Exactly. I don’t get why people are freaking out so much when it’s easy to create a new account and clients support multiple accounts anyways. Big instances are a big target so they need to protect themselves. On Reddit the piracy subs are neutered because they can’t link to anything. What’s good about the fediverse is you can have sub verses within it. It’s dumb to have your piracy account linked to your main account anyways.
They’re not just talking about piracy, they’re linking to it. There’s piracy subs on Reddit too and they’re allowed because they are very careful to only talk about it and not link to it, and they’re severely gimped because of that. What’s great about lemmy is that instances that are on with the risk can do so without having to follow anyone else’s rules and users can access it by simply having another account.
Yes, because it’s illegal. If you’re going to be the biggest host you’re a bigger target which means you need to be more careful. What’s good about the fediverse is that you have distributed instances so smaller ones can support things like piracy, and if a small one gets taken down there will be others in its place. The same game of whack a mole is what has allowed torrent tracker sites to exist. If there was one centralized torrent tracker site it would get shut down.
What the post says is exactly right. You’d be an idiot to have one account for your normal usage and piracy usage. In your normal usage you’ll inevitably leak personally identifiable information. Having multiple accounts and multiple instances is the exactly right thing to do to keep piracy alive.
It’s usable with photogimp, but Photoshop still has better tools and filters.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a driver issue in Linux where something straight up didn’t work, except for printers (but I’ve had printer issues with Windows and osx too, so that’s more a printer than an OS problem). I have had to find different drivers when I want some very specific feature though. Really most of my issues with Linux are just because I’m trying to do something complicated in the first place. If I had simple usage I don’t think I’d have any problems at all, vs Windows where sometimes it just randomly fucks itself up.
For obscure problems I actually find it easier to solve issues on Linux. The problem with Linux support isn’t that it isn’t out there, it’s that there’s so many variations that it’s hard to know which one is right for your setup. It’s the main reason why I stick with Ubuntu forks.
You could just use vs codium as a fully open source option.
It’s similar to chrome. Chrome is not open source, its base project chromium is. The VSCode distributable has closed source stuff on top which is mostly telemetry. There’s a purely open source build of VSCode called vscodium.
To really be successful you need to be curious enough to want to understand things at a deep level. With LLMs people who don’t really care well learn even less than before.
That’s not very reassuring