mister_newbie

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mister_newbie ,

I think the larger content creators will push back against this, precisely due to the timestamp issue.

mister_newbie ,

The other issue is that people who plan to retire at x year will fucking riot if it turn into y year. I'm one of them.

mister_newbie ,

No but content owners could directly DMCA stuff that's hosted on usenet, they just don't.

They absolutely do, which is why the vast, vast majority of content is obfuscated, necessitating the use of indexers.

mister_newbie ,

Bought a car seat for my toddler. Opened it, manufactured date was 4 years ago! That is, it would EXPIRE in 4mo.

So, I go to return it, and the returns counter guy said they don't take care seat returns and that it's not defective! Got absolutely nowhere with him, ended up having to go to a different location and the person there had kids and understood the issue. Ugh.

mister_newbie ,

Yes. And using an expired seat with your child is against the law (and obviously unsafe), and the fine isn't small.

mister_newbie ,

Depends on the seat. I've bought some that lasted 10yrs (previous kid). The one in this instance was a 5yr cheaper one.

mister_newbie , (edited )

I'm using Tuxedo OS. Based off Ubuntu, but without snaps, and using a up-to-date KDE desktop environment. I don't like Cinnamon.

mister_newbie ,

Early-mid 90s.

The latter years of the NES, the entirety of the 16-bit console era (SNES/Megadrive ["Genesis"]), the golden age of PC adventure games & the dawn of multimedia (CD-ROM based games & talkies).

Just before the release of Doom, where FPS took over; and the PSX/N64, where (bad) 3D was teh hotness; is where it's at for me – likely why I love my MiSTer FPGA so much.

Amazon Prime's NHL deal breaches cable TV's last line of defence: live sports ( www.cbc.ca )

For years, cable TV has bled viewers and subscribers to streaming giants like Netflix, Apple and Amazon. Now, those same companies are vying to stream live sports, one of the last lines of defence when it comes to audiences paying big bucks for traditional cable packages....

mister_newbie ,

The leagues won't survive if paywalls go up. Watching your team "for free" via OTA broadcast TV is how they got so big in the first place. CBC's HNIC was huge. More and more, if there are barriers to watching something, many people prior just won't bother.

mister_newbie ,

You assume, incorrectly, that people will always care about said professional teams/sports.

A lot of the "care" is in the communal activity of watching a game together with one's mates. Take the convenience of that away, and people will find something else to do.

mister_newbie ,

There's precedent: MLB Lockout. No ball games on TV, people found other things to do.

It took years to recover.

mister_newbie ,

Highly highly recommend Nobara over Mint if you're primarily going to be gaming. It's a fork of Fedora by Glorious Eggshell Eggroll (the guy behind Proton-GE), who himself works for Redhat.

It. just. works.

v40 should be out within a week or two of Fedora 40 dropping on the 23rd.

Edit: Wrong Egg-thing

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