ZapBeebz_

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[–] ZapBeebz_ 22 points 4 days ago (8 children)

This is more permanent than it could be...instead of being able to be undone via executive order, it would take an incredibly rare and twisted court ruling or an act of Congress. Neither is that unlikely, however repealing it won't be unilateral, and that means it'll take time and political capital.

[–] ZapBeebz_ 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There are a lot of things about the steam deck I respect, including that the only difference in price points is down to available storage, not performance. It really makes the device so much more accessible

[–] ZapBeebz_ 1 points 5 days ago

Don't forget the (in)healthy amount of racism too.

[–] ZapBeebz_ 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was incredibly mad before I realized I was reading George Soros, not George Santos. Now I'm only kinda mad

[–] ZapBeebz_ 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this really sidestepping sanctions? My understanding of the sanctions is that they're less about us not wanting China to use them, and more about us not wanting China to get their hands on the physical cards so they can reverse engineer them/fully own the computation done with them. Overseas rentals seems like the intended direction for them to go, because they can still use the computation power, but don't have the physical hardware (plus they could lose all access to the datacenters in case of war).

[–] ZapBeebz_ 11 points 1 week ago

Cancel culture only really is a thing when the person on the receiving end is capable of feeling the tiniest shred of embarrassment/remorse for what they've done (not being caught). People fade into obscurity when they get "cancelled" because the massive outcry from the public convinces them they can't ignore that what they're doing is wrong anymore. In the case of most fascist hucksters (as well as Mr Beast), they are incapable of seeing that what they've done is wrong, so they can never be convinced of the need to stop

[–] ZapBeebz_ -1 points 1 week ago

If there's one thing this guarantees, it's that Peelon has some guy in India remotely driving that Tesla

[–] ZapBeebz_ 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can tell right now this show is a flop because it's been out nearly a month and this is literally the first time I've heard of it. Nothing in the run up to release, nothing in nearly a month since.

[–] ZapBeebz_ 43 points 2 weeks ago

Given that NATO mandates 2% GDP on defence, they're pulling their weight. Estonia is not a large country, so $1.5B goes a lot further there than in larger nations.

[–] ZapBeebz_ 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When my grandmother passed, my grandfather took most of her books to her favorite local buy/sell/trade bookstore and got a pile of store credit for my brother and I. It took us over a decade to spend it all, and we probably only had $300 or $400 in that account to start with. But the store sold most books for less than $5. Amazon is out here charging $25 for a 40 year-old book as an ebook, and there's no equivalent to buy/sell/trade secondhand bookstores in the ebook space.

[–] ZapBeebz_ 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The method I used actually (currently) doesn't require a physical Kindle. I just had to download a specific version of Kindle for PC (Version 2.3.70682) and was able to quickly and easily use the Calibre extension to remove the DRM.

I'm not super confident it'll always work, so I'm not planning on buying more books from Amazon, but it's a good solution to pull my existing library into the ePub world.

[–] ZapBeebz_ 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's basically my attitude. As usual, piracy is a service problem.

 

There are so many gems in this one, least of which are the bathrooms.

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