I don’t have access to Twitter’s balance sheet, but I’d wager a guess that they’re on financial life support in the short term, and they’ve got a stage 4 cancer diagnosis in the long term.

The only thing Twitter has going for them over a competitor like Mastodon or Threads, is their name. And Musk has made sure their name is covered in shit and mud.

Twitter was doomed before Musk bought them, and they’re super doomed now.

You’re missing the point.

Pornography addiction is a real thing.

I don’t think citronella actually does anything.

If she is gone … What will the community do then?

I think Empress disappearing would be a net-positive for the cracking scene.

If there is nobody cracking the latest releases, the pressure will mount for new crackers to enter the scene. And perhaps we’ll get a new generation of crackers that bring some competition back into the space.

There’s also a lot of money involved in pirated games, with shops in poorer countries selling cracked games for pennies on the dollar to people who would otherwise be unable to afford, or even download the latest games.

So it’s my opinion that denuvo cracking will never go away, it’ll just evolve over time, like it has since the beginning.

It’s not that they’re obsessive over social media, they’re just used to being able to simply look up general information about people online through social media sites. And if you don’t present anything for them to find, it often encourages further digging.

But you do you, I’m not trying to change your mind.

You need to delete “cookies and site data” for your browser in order to resume using your Lemmy account.

I think this is a problem for people who are unaware of the hack or how to fix their account, since they’ll just think Lemmy is broken, and lose interest.

This is a great thing, but mass adoption should still be refrained from

Mass adoption would be great as long as it happens naturally over time, and not a result of the “we must grow” mentality of Silicon Valley.

Like Reddit, the massive “default” areas would be fairly low quality, with the culture being a reflection of the broader population. But the smaller specialized communities would be beacons of light for people looking for nuanced conversation.

With the way the fediverse is structured, the negative aspects of mass adoption would be simpler to avoid, simply by curating an instance to show content from the communities you’re interested in.

I can’t think of a better omen for the future of the free internet, than to have most people using a FOSS social media site as their primary online hub. It would certainly be better than allowing all online communication to be controlled by a handful of billionaires with goals that are harmful to society.

But again, this needs to happen naturally, by virtue of Lemmy just being a great place to share content, and without the goal of simply making the most money possible.

I have thought that way before.

But nowadays I have a different perspective. I’ve got everything I need to be happy, and that’s enough for me.

You’re not going to be obsessing over all your career achievements on your deathbed, you’re just going to wish you had spent more time with loved ones.

Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can’t find any trace of you online. And if they really care, they’ll dig harder to find that time where you declared bankruptcy, or you got arrested for public intoxication, or where someone deep in your past said something negative about you, and that’s all that will stick in your mind when they think of you.

For me personally, having a simple, but relatively barren social media presence is worth it to avoid the persistent diggers, who will find something about you if they don’t see anything public.

And besides, everything about most of us is already stored in Apple or Google’s datacenters. There’s no hiding from the deeply intrusive data collection those companies do. So having some simple information out in the open is likely better for privacy in some ways.

If you disagree with my take, that’s fine, I just wanted to give another perspective.

u/AngryBeaverBeaver : OP, why do you even bother posting here when 90% of replies are bots?

OP : I’m sorry, but as an AI language model…

That’s definitely the smart way to buy laptops.

I just wanted to remind people that Framework’s pricing is competitive in the segment they are targeting.

Personally I’m with you, buying a 1-2 year old premium machine can save up to 75% off the new retail price, while still getting most of the latest features.

Even in relatively corruption-free countries, there are often shadow mechanisms the governments uses to decide who they charge with a crime.

Prosecutors can just say they don’t have a case, or they can fumble the case purposefully in the initial stages to give credence to the “no case” idea.

We don’t have to look any further than how police charge themselves to see how the laws don’t fairly apply to everyone. And a simple google search will reveal that Sweden is not immune to police corruption, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

“Disobeying police orders”, which is what Thunberg was charged with, is one of those catch-all laws that are purposefully vague in a way that allows police total discretion over how to enforce it.

I guarantee in this case that calls were made all the way up the top of the Swedish government before police decided what to do here.

Basically, my point is that there are so many strings to pull, even in developed countries, that it’s often possible to suss out the motivations of the administration just by examining how charges proceed.

What this says about Thunberg getting charged for her actions? Probably nothing significant. Sweden cannot allow activists to freely disrupt their economic infrastructure, especially those involving energy. So they charge her as “normal” regardless of her celebrity status. Though they will be very careful to do everything by the book with so many eyes on the case.

It detects if you’re idle and refreshes the page?

That’s some horrible attention hacking bullshit.

I’m 100% going to find another instance if I see any content from that nightmare. I’m not on Twitter, or Facebook, for a reason.

I pay a few bucks a month for access to a giant plex share.

It’s worth it to just, watch stuff, basically anything, instead of fiddling around with different apps and subscriptions and all that.

I’d happily pay a lot more for the same legal service, but it doesn’t exist.

Studios, if you want my money, make everything available in one spot for a reasonable price. Or, continue your bastardization of everything, and I’ll just keep watching your stuff anyway.

I was gonna say the same thing but then I saw the 2200-something upvotes.

This community is doomed to be exactly like the low effort meme sub r/piracy if people keep upvoting this lazy content.

Maybe if you spec them out.

But it’s like $1000 for the midrange model with the latest hardware, which is in line with the competition.

And the first upgrade you do will end up saving money, since you won’t have to replace the whole laptop.

You make a good point.

Under the Castle Doctrine laws in my state, if Zuckerberg walked into my house without being invited then I could start blastin.

I’ll post the legalese mumbo jumbo on my door to keep him out, like he’s a vampire.

I don’t think anyone would even notice next to the garbage that’s already served by default on Reddit.

Motherland if I’m not mistaken.

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