echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh they do, at a great expense, and the committee writes a very long detailed document about why their idea is pants on head crazy, which of course they don't like, so they ignore the committee and then they do it anyway.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 3 hours ago

But the game publishers already had licence, and if they didn't have a licence then their beef is with the publishers not the storefront.

Anyway I've bought GTA V from physical brick and mortar stores in the past, so are they going to start suing the brick and mortar stores as well?

Hopefully they lose this case because copyright law is an absolute joke. It hasn't been fit for purpose for about 20 years.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I probably wouldn't recommend getting an Apple II

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 9 hours ago

The last place I saw it as an option was on the framework website.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 13 hours ago

EA makes the best games when the executives get out of the way. Some developers took all of the assets that they had from Battlefront 2 (which was a gorgeous piece of crap) and made one of the best Star Wars flight sims I've ever seen.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 13 hours ago

That's not good from a player standpoint that seems to suggest that there isn't going to be any updates which is probably why they went the CCG route.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In my experience people who know a little about computers are more dangerous than the ones who know nothing.

I've had people come into the repair shop who've uninstalled programs they don't recognise and then it turns out that the programs they don't recognise was the graphics driver. A complete novice would just have not gone into the program list to begin with.

Do schools even teach basic computing anymore, when I was at school we got taught how to program and I feel like that's not done anymore.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

That's like saying that everyone should become an electrician. It's just not a practical expectation.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 16 hours ago

Although in fairness Windows is not being particularly reliable in that regard as of late.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

You can buy computers without an operating system installed on it but most consumers barely understand what a computer is and would think that a computer without an operating system was broken. So there never was much of a market and then Microsoft came along and paid the OEMs to install Windows.

Quite a few website will let you untick the windows 11 licence if you want to go your own way.

Unfortunately the Linux market is so fragmented that your average user is overwhelmed. This is not helped by the Linux community who in a general rule are not particularly accommodating towards novices.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Your American trolley skills are insufficient. You'll be overwhelmed by it and just spin around in place.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago

This whole drowned forests off the coast of the UK and I also believe New Zealand has something similar. That whole region is basically just a drowned continent with a few mountains sticking up, forming islands.

 

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