I was actually hoping to see that as a defense. The principal thing that copy enforcement corps always cite is 'we downloaded a copy from their IP, thus they made a copy and distributed the work'.
If this works as a defense here then in effect they make direct download portals legal for the users at least.
Nearest Costco is about 45 minutes from me so while it looks like a decent replacement to Target, it's going to have be a bit more planned that just pop out for a quick thing.
Still sort of working on how to keep track of who all I need to avoid. It may only be a small amount but I'm a stubborn one when it comes to avoiding shops. The city pissed me off once so I refused to use their municipal beer shop for like a decade after.
That too, though I haven't had reason to go there just yet. Curious to see some stats over the year to see if there's a notable bump for them due to standing against the trend to kill DEI.
At the rate these chains are telling me to fuck off with my business and ignore them I'm gonna end up with nothing but farmer markets and crafts shows to shop at...
1: people getting lazy and just chucking everything into the generic bucket and the admins/global mods having a mess to deal with.
2: I'm the event of an ability to move content to another community other than the instance 'global' how do you deal with cross-instance moves? For example if the most prominent version of a comm is on one instance but a post gets put on another, the logical place would be to be on the more prominent community, but just dumping posts on another instance isn't going to be well received I would guess.
Got to wonder what some lawyer told them was going have them bent over to suddenly say Musk is just an advisor with no authority and try and erase things like this. I'm guessing we find out soon enough while Donnie tries to scramble to gaslight everyone about what he said before.
I'm kind of mixed on that depending on the game. In general I say I'd rather the kids play a game than watch a show because it's interactive rather than just pushing mush into their face.
The other side though is how so many games (most notoriously mobile ones) are so keyed into scratching those little itches to keep someone playing for way longer than should be healthy.
A lot of people using official channel emulators probably don't think of it as emulation. I have one of the original style PS3 systems where it had PS2 hardware to play the older games. Does that count as emulation or using an older system? Hard to say where one draws the line.
Can't say I've ever seen anyone defend the system in play, just recognizing that it exists and until it's changed in whatever means possible that playing the protest/spoiler is likely to make things worse.
Separate cancer phone that you only use on WiFi would be my guess, short of the oft cited switching banks. Alternate could be to put payments all on a card and only use the card issuer's site to make payments to them so you don't have to directly interact with the bank.
I've been doing prints for probably 10+ years now and have yet to make one of these. Cute as it is I never quite got why that became the defacto standard test.
Internet culture is a leaky thing. A major chunk of meme and comic formats where born in 4chan and they've been adopted virtually everywhere on the web despite coming from a place that takes a certain level of self hate to stomach for any length of time. Lemmy is functionally a clone of reddit right down to the logo similarity. Trying to claim that somehow it's a different unique corner of the web and exercise in futility.
Yes... but not really relevant to discussions of businesses not actively trying to completely crush the middle class here?