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Banzai51 , (edited ) to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Billy, yes!!
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Ad block is NOT piracy. And use Ublock Origin.

Banzai51 , to homeassistant in In-wall light switch recommendations
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Doesn't Kasa phone home to China?

Banzai51 , to Technology in Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year
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Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.

Banzai51 , to Politics in A Majority of Voters Backing Biden Are Mostly Motivated by Stopping Trump — Poll
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One of these guys is promising to go dictator, eliminate democracy, and seek retribution against those that "wronged" him. Not hard to see why so many are committed to voting against him.

This poll isn't the knock against Biden that many think it is.

Banzai51 , to Linux Gaming in Steve with GN Considering Linux
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Ironically, that is why I wanted Stadia to succeed. It would have forced many game companies to consider Linux.

But Google screwed the pooch.

Banzai51 , to Technology in Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
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Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.

Banzai51 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Was this considered 'piracy' back in the day?
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Way back in the day, my best friend had a family friend that owned a computer software store. He rented games and gave us copies of the latest and greatest copy programs with a wink-wink and a nudge-nudge.

Banzai51 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Was this considered 'piracy' back in the day?
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Remember, no business is required to tell the truth. Had a pipeline go through my backyard and you would not believe the lies that company told. Glad I lawyered up instead of believing the lies.

Banzai51 , (edited ) to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Was this considered 'piracy' back in the day?
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Only if you sold it. Back when cassette tapes first came out, the mystic music industry sued, and the Supreme Court ruled it fair use. So VHS tapes were under the same umbrella. We wouldn't get that same ruling now.

Holy hell, that was one hell of an autocorrect on mobile.

Banzai51 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die
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It the same mechanism. They can do it, they just don't want to.

Banzai51 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die
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They can. I buy and gift games to my son all the time.

Banzai51 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking
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That info can go stale quickly as content licensing changes. I've ran into that plenty.

Banzai51 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking
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There are still plenty of good deals in streaming if you have shifted to on-demand. If you want live TV or sports, they're out to gouge the fuck out of you. Luckily my Wife came around to on-demand only and an antenna. Of course, they're trying hard to take away the antenna option from everyone with ATSC 3.0.

Banzai51 , to Politics in Democrats, Contempt Will Not Win You the Election
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Republicans can be dismissive, hold the left in contempt, threaten to murder us, but hey Hillary looks like an intellectual that won't put up with stupid people, this is a Democrat problem. Fucking "journalism."

Banzai51 , to Technology in Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away
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I've seen this before in the 90s. The companies that forced out the best, highest paid staff always suffered.

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