implying Google has customer service

I don’t think that actually is a Free Software license, an open source license, or any kind of license for that matter, so much as a vague statement of intent

You don’t need to crack anything, pirate your ebooks (I’ve recently had good results from annas-archive.org for fiction books) and send them to kindle as personal documents.

Corporations are not people, no matter what the Supreme Court says.

no

I feel like there’s probably significant overlap between the people who kept it from filling up with swastikas and the people who left for lemmy

Studios want to hire actors for a single day’s pay then use their image in whatever “AI” generated horrors they feel like forever

If you’re gonna read a long ass novel about the coming climate catastrophe it should be Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Neckbuds have all the disadvantages of wired and wireless headphones at the same time. You have the battery life and imperfect connection of Bluetooth plus you still have wires to get caught on things and pull the buds out of your ears.

The only game journalist I trust is James Stephanie Sterling and Denuvo sure as shit isn’t sending them a copy

Laptop and Chromebook are two very different things. A laptop is sufficient for any use case that doesn’t demand GPU power, but if you’re ever considering buying a “gaming” laptop, don’t. You can get a cheap laptop and a decent gaming desktop for the same price and they’ll last you longer and run better.

A Chromebook is just walled garden bullshit.

Iain M. Banks’ Culture

Try it, you’ll like it

Games are free on PC, or at least very cheap if you insist on actually purchasing them

That’s a problem that will solve itself as instances and communities grow and mature.

If you want to get really pedantic, none of the three completely different arthropods commonly called daddy longlegs are true bugs. True bugs are the order Hemiptera while crane flies are in Diptera and cellar spiders and harvestmen aren’t insects at all.

Also, Opiliones don’t produce silk and don’t make webs, but Pholcidae do.

the ! addressing allows you to post a link that anybody can click to get their instance’s version of the community link. So for example, [email protected] posted anywhere on lemmy becomes a link to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] for me, but the exact same link is a link to https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected] for you

rookie numbers

also use firefox

Could also be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones?useskin=vector which aren’t spiders but still are arachnids and have 8 legs, or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly?useskin=vector which are not arachnids at all, but insects and have 6 legs. All 3 different groups are called daddy longlegs.

Silicon Valley is fundamentally incapable of understanding cautionary tales.