Remote start of any kind is a luxury and it’s wild to me that someone would defend internet car controls as any way important or even desirable. That’s what I’m talking about. Physical keys work totally fine and add like two seconds of time to the process.

It’s a good thing we invented remote start at the same time as the car itself, I can’t imagine the horror of only operating a motor vehicle I’m next to (let alone touching)

They have to believe in meritocracy, that wealth isn’t intrinsically tied to exploitation and a long history of classism.

Some of us never left.

Dude’s a Christian Zionist.

Or. Or. And hear me out on this: participate in society.

Off power grid maybe, imagine the nightmare of urban well-digging or apartment septic tanks.

What, and take any responsibility for the Commons?

You should never expect privacy in someone else’s car.

Racism.

Which suck if you have windows higher than your head. Pullstring can be ten feet long and work just fine.

The two strings is so that you can keep them level when one side inevitably wears slightly longer than the other.

This is a web forum, not an academic journal. Fuck off with the grammar policing.

And while we’re at it, get fucked Pearson and other scummy textbook publishers!

How is that meaningfully different from “the camera generated”? Both result in a full image from a single input.

Taping off the radio didn’t kill the music industry, neither did Napster. Adobe did perfectly fine while small artists were using pirated copies of Photoshop. Sharing DRM-free software isn’t going to bring about the apocalypse. It’s already been happening for decades.

Providing a convenient storefront and launcher is enough for most customers if they think the price is fair. Gating multi-player, or achievements, or even hats behind some kind of proof of payment is going to catch a lot of people who might otherwise get a free copy.

“You can’t stop regular digital items from being copied and distributed for free, it’s simply not possible.”

Yes, good, stop trying. Accept that some people are going to pirate. Fighting this just makes the user experience worse for everyone else.

Steam is the worst acceptable format, is what I’m saying. Licenses and DRM are a thing we should move past not embrace.

I’ll simplify: I don’t want that future. Steam is currently acceptable because they provide a low-impact market, I think their 30% cut is reasonable, and offline mode is adequate. If that changes I’m done. GOG also exists and is a preferable model, but the experience isn’t as polished.

I don’t care if sales drop a bit, the early success of stuff like netflix and spotify and steam proves that most people will happily pay a reasonable price for access rather than pirate. It’s only a “problem” for the capitalists and fuck em.

Sure. Digital “ownership” is like trying to put a round peg in a square hole, it’s applying rules and concepts to a fundamentally different thing. As long as it comes along with a tip culture for creators or some kind of guaranteed income.