I think that’s a positive. Americans, in the absence of law enforcement, will fight to defend themselves and their property (and vicariously, the property of others).

Stopping thievery, is, unto itself, a just cause.

I live in Canada, there’s surprisingly little pickpocketing here too, and we don’t have the same gun/weapon laws.

Like the Americans, we’ll straight up beat you to a pulp if you try some shit, and we’re very sorry about that… You motherfucker.

Hold up.

83% have a driver’s license but 88% have a car?

So 5% of Americans either have a car for the hell of it, or they drive without a license?

And there’s only 3% that are atheists? More people drive without a license than are atheists?

Excuse me?

If these numbers are correct, the US is more fucked than I thought.

My guess is hand/got holds for climbing up the cliff face. Basically an outdoor ladder.

I might be wrong

Almost all of mine are lightbulbs, because RGB.

- Full time sysadmin and it support guy.

Long live gaben.

Honestly, I’m worried for what might happen if steam ever becomes dependent on how happy shareholders are with the amount of money they can squeeze from their users.

A lot of things on steam are not cheap, but the platform itself is really really good.

Keep it up chaps.

Listen. Apple has a vested interest in you buying a new device. They “fix” your phone, it’ll be… What? Maybe $100? … They sell you a phone and it’s like 10x that.

Most people have so little fucks to give and so little free time to fuck around and find out, that they just shrug and go with it. Apple knows this. If they “can’t” (won’t) fix it, then it must not be able to be fixed anymore; the thoughts of a typical normie Apple user with more money than sense (or shits to give).

This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company. They treat their customers like ATMs. Just keep beating that horse until it stops making money.

If everyone simply replaced the batteries on their phones, not using Apple’s service (even when they’re willing to do the work), then they probably wouldn’t be worth a trillion dollars.

Since there’s enough NPCs out there giving them money to replace perfectly good devices with dead batteries, it will never change.

When you “trade in” your perfectly working phone for a new one, Apple suddenly absolutely can replace the battery, and they do, and then they sell your “unfixable” phone to the next schmuck, and make even more money.

I feel like this shit is so obvious that anyone who buys into the line “can’t be fixed” from Apple (or any other vendor), is insane, or mentally incapable of making rational decisions.

I fully accept that if I send my phone for service from the first party (in my case, Google), and they say it “can’t” be done, that’s not a hard no to fixing my stuff; that’s them refusing to serve me. I need to go somewhere else because I’ve been abandoned by the very people I put my trust into when I bought a device.

Crime against humanity, and a crime against the planet.

I’ve lived long enough to know that I need to have a system of: a place for everything and everything in its place.

… Now if I could only implement that, that’d be great…

This is always the case. Whenever you deal with any educational institution, they don’t want you to give them the right answer ever. They want you to give them the answer that they told you that you should give; whether it’s right or wrong

All fair. I’m not trying to say you’re doing it wrong at all, quite the opposite.

And yes, redundancy is nice, but it really depends on the importance of the data on the system and the budget.

To be blunt: if Lemmy.ca goes down for any length of time, that would suck for everyone here, but nobody will die, there won’t be any loss of profits or whatever… In business talk, the risk of what could be lost due to an outage is less than the cost of the hardware to prevent an outage.

I understand your position and an in warranty Dell server system isn’t cheap.

What you’re currently going is clearly working. So I don’t have any complaints.

There’s always the exceptions, but they’re rare, and getting more rare.

The vast majority of works are owned by a few major corporations, even smaller, more indie games often get published through a major studio, which then retains a good amount of the profit. Almost all media, TV and movies, is owned by one of a handful of companies. Music is largely the same.

It goes the same way for so many other things too. It’s not just games and media.

There are always going to be exceptions but on the whole, it’s vastly more likely/common that the people profiting from something is a large, faceless organization, which only answers to their shareholders.

To be fair, they’re going to see the movies in the theatre, so the characters in this comic don’t know what they’re in for yet.

The more important thing is that one of the people in the cartoon is much happier/more comfortable in the second frame…

Yeah, why the fuck not?

Obviously, something made in a specialized vehicle manufacturing plant will be better/more durable/whatever, but given the option between downloading a car vs spending a year’s salary to buy one… I’d rather download one.

Unless my wages get better (which they are not) or cars get cheaper (which they won’t), I’ll continue to have this opinion.

There’s a nontrivial number of cars that cost more than a house did in the 80’s and 90’s. So it’s entirely possible for someone to spend the same dollar value on their home, when purchasing it in the 90’s, as they do 25 years later, buying a house in the 2020’s.

Stupid.

The only damage that exists from piracy is to the copyright holders profits…

Since the copyright holder is usually a corporation that is owned by shareholders, the majority of which are richer than all of us combined, ask me if I give a shit and I will show you my field of shits to give, and you will see that it is barren.

Eat the rich. Or Luigi them… I don’t care.

I’m a sysadmin by day and… Only one host? And it needs 1TB of RAM? Seems excessive. Probably not though. IDK how optimized Lemmy is.

There’s a lot I could say here but I’ll limit myself to this: the proof is in the pudding. Lemmy.ca is working well. You all should be very proud of what you’ve done.

Pretty much all women should take this advice.

Being subtle will regularly, if not almost always be missed. Us dudes are too wrapped up in whatever dumb shit we’re thinking about to notice the subtlety. Grabbing my dick, definitely gets my attention. If you don’t know what to say, just grab a dick.

We’ll let you know if there’s any reason not to, but bluntly, few things are so important that they need to be finished before getting freaky.

Jokes on you. They just dilute the royalty payment among all the artists you’ve streamed, so Spotify’s cut isn’t really bring affected.

Fun right?

Well, I’m sure a human domicile would be a bit more robust than “alligator Alcatraz” so instead of 8 days, it might take more like… 8 weeks? To build something comparable for the homeless?

Depending on how complex each housing unit is (bathrooms/kitchens/whatever) possibly more or less. Idk.

But knowing that the world runs on capitalist dollars, there’s no profit in it. They can’t pay rent, they don’t have any money, and they would actively cost you money, either in property tax, water, power, and/or food… Not to mention any replacement costs for any fixtures or furniture that’s damaged/stolen.

Not saying the unhoused are thieves, but a nontrivial number of them are desperate, and desperate people do things that they otherwise wouldn’t consider doing.

In any case, the solution to the homeless “problem” (being that people are homeless at all) is not just housing, but also community services to get any drug users into their respective rehabilitation programs, and anyone willing and able to work, into job placements… Mental health services…

All of these things cost money and don’t yield any profits, so I understand why they’re not done. That doesn’t mean I’m ok with it not being done, it’s a shame that we’ve left a portion of the population to fend for themselves on the streets and we almost universally dehumanize them as less than a person because they’re homeless. They’re people. We should take care of them because they’re people.

No child left behind, but anyone post highschool that’s living on the streets, fuck them… I guess.

None of us did.

I didn’t get a say in whether or not to be born. I’m just here now and I have to deal with all of this shit.