DarienGS

joined 1 year ago
[–] DarienGS -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because he's still working on winning back the trust of the Jewish community.

[–] DarienGS 7 points 1 year ago

In the early days they did satirise current issues, but it mostly seemed to be through a lens of 31st-century technology or social conventions. Nowadays, the future setting often just feels like window dressing for a story that's really entirely about the present.

[–] DarienGS 1 points 1 year ago

Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?

[–] DarienGS 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While it's true that the imbeciles in our (UK) government have tried to implicitly outlaw E2EE, there are no restrictions on VPNs here.

[–] DarienGS -4 points 1 year ago

Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.

[–] DarienGS 3 points 1 year ago

They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.

[–] DarienGS 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's Amazon, dude. You may not like their business practices but it's a fair bet they're going to have something you want at a decent price.

[–] DarienGS 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're saying you can't buy to own anything... at Amazon?

[–] DarienGS 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they're probably taking some sort of loss.

[–] DarienGS -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

forced cloud spyware which at this point is the entire OS now

I mean, apart from...

[–] DarienGS 2 points 1 year ago

I came here to post exactly this. IIRC Matthew Smith said his playtesting rule was that, as long as he could successfully complete a room once, no matter how many attempts it took, it went in. Hardly surprising that doing the whole thing, even with infinite lives, was far beyond my eight-year-old self.

[–] DarienGS 3 points 1 year ago

Google doesn't track everything. The browser determines your interests locally; the only information shared with Google (and advertisers) is which broad topics you've recently shown an interest in.

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