IIRC, ZWave costs the manufacturer a license to use and they must meet certain quality guidelines.

In the end this results in higher quality products, but there’s an overhead.

Are you thinking of Tor?

You are trying to use Excel like a database and that’s not its job. Use Access for that, if you must stick within the Office ecosystem

Like 99% of laptops and desktops sold come with a Windows Home license. Those are OEM deals but they’re also screwing those customers

Security through obscurity is hammered into newbies as being bad because it’s often a “quicker and easier” solution and we don’t want anyone thinking they could just do that and be done with it.

You have to learn the proper way to do it; obscurity only buys you time. Maybe.

🙄it’s not from T-Mobile, it’s a forgery. And, unless the letters are actually cake, we can infer that “fake” in this case means just that.

Please spare us the reddit pedantry. There are much more intelligent discussions to be had around this topic without avoiding it entirely to inject some grammar nitpicking.

And pay a 4th party to go around removing you from data broker lists, is the expectation

EA is gonna get Private Equity’d, I guarantee it ™️

What will really shift your thinking is finding out that they have done this to almost all the hospitals in the United States, which is part of the reason healthcare costs have skyrocketed.

Hospitals need more to pay their leases, health insurers need to pay more to feed the hospitals machine, premiums go way up/more services restricted/more cost share (copay etc)

If you think it’s shitty that consumers can’t own anything anymore, they stole your wellbeing services while you were bitching about how little is still on Netflix these days

Does the term “venture capitalist” refer to these types of activities? I thought that was more about funding startups (like in Silly Con Valley) and this was more private equity holders.

Or are they two sides of the same card?

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We’d have renewable-powered trains that have trackside turbines to recoup some of the wind generated by the train’s drag, and we’d also have the fastest WiFi the world has ever seen

Trump has wanted to destroy the United States since we captured Epstein in 2011 and shut down the best of his trafficking ring. It was never the same after that and that’s why he was suddenly so outspoken about Obama.

Take away a narcissist’s toys and they’ll just vow revenge at all costs. He doesn’t care that he’s destroying millions of lives - we took away his favorite thing; underaged “playmates”.

The rest of them are just assholes who think they can get rich and in some cases, have.

Also the original Deus Ex is not easy for non-techie games to just pick up and play. Unless you own old hardware (collector nerds) or you can negotiate the jank on modern hardware (techie nerds) then many old titles are just not accessible.

I think a game like Deus Ex that people still talk about as a classic deserve remasters.

And who knows, maybe Deus Ex has to look like shit in order to be itself? It’s not supposed to be a remake; a remaster just means 1) works on modern hardware, with modern controllers/OSes and 2) most if not all game mechanics, plot lines, level designs, etc feel and play as they originally did, with the exception that there might be some bug fixes or QoL changes to prevent things that are universally agreed upon as being bad/unnecessary.

What I’m getting at is - is it Deus Ex if it doesn’t look janky and weird?

Not that I’m trying to criticize you for it, but we all should have been on that a long time ago

You act like America is the only place in the world where tech is being used for mass surveillance.

Your own governments are doing it to you too, whether or not it’s legal.

Wake up, they don’t give a single fuck about you.

The controversy was about a pull request being submitted that changed documentation to have gender-neutral pronouns, and there was some back and forth with the lead dev about not making “political” statements. Also lead dev is German and apparently (just what I have been told) in German the male pronouns are used when making gender-neutral references; so that muddied the waters of the back and forth - he may have assumed he was doing intended grammar in English and others may have assumed he was fighting against inclusivity (which as been going around a lot lately, in case that was not obvious…)

As far as I know it was eventually straightened out and the changes were implemented

Just remember that from his perspective, you are arguing against grammatical rules that are at the core of his communication experience due to his first language being German.‘so perhaps his initial reaction was confusion because he didn’t understand the angle - he thought he was being inclusive? Maybe?

I dunno I’m probably playin devil’s advocate without all the information here; I’ve just been resisting making jokes connecting grammatical pedantry to Germany the whole time.

I think that highly depends on the client you use:

But I see your point

She is not defending herself. She is attacking. She is funding hate groups with money.

Fuck Joanne and her stupid wizard world. It’s all built on ideas of imperialism apologia anyway