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[–] [email protected] 4 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

The shitty thing is that if margins are high enough only a very small minority of owners need to subscribe in order for them to break even and then we get stuck with it for eternity like SiriusXM being implanted into practically everything.

And of course there's no way to just 'opt out' of the hardware via trim levels. Shitty industry in general

[–] [email protected] 2 points 33 minutes ago

Yeah it's horrible, but I think it's made even worse because the premise and concept sounds like it'd make for a really great game. An open world sandbox of ass kicking, like Hell's Angels meets Fallout with a destructable/interactable environment. It's such a good idea but unfortunately Rockstar didn't pick up on it and we got this instead :-/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.

I remember binning DDR2 RAM on a test bench back in the day and Windows deactivated itself after about a dozen times lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

"Let's create a sleek and affordable 2 seater in a market practically devoid of coupes, but then we'll remove the pedals and steering wheel"

Yeah I can see why TSLA dropped on the news.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

fully autonomous

How about 'what the fuck is wrong with you?'

Tech bros reinvent the button smh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Weird thing for you to say to someone basically parroting the IPCC's concerns.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-14/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Why would a corporate entity move PP&E to a different country in light of the promise of increasingly favorable tax rates and the threat of tariffs? There's a reason why US and Ireland are havens. Those things are bolted down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (5 children)

What if a country that holds half the world's data centers decides to walk out of every global climate accord and start powering those bad boys with fracking due to isolationist trade policies? Won't amount to zero and in less than a month we find out how that ship is changing its heading

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (7 children)

You don't say.

Do you think the USA is incapable of a meaningful increase in global emissions? My original comment is implying the opposite

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (9 children)

That'd be contingent on lots of things, such as random clowns not sabotaging the EPA and selling rights to Federal lands

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

That image is of the bus so it probably requires a 'fleet' type purchase alongside a maintenance contract

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

They still exist as a corporate entity and I wouldn't consider it cruel or malevolent to wholly eradicate them through patent troll litigation. It'd be rich. They're still sitting on dubiously-gotten gains and it doesn't sit right with me that stakeholders will be able to clean out all the pocket change under the couch cushions and walk away

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