And like other time-limited services outside entertainment, the duration should be made clear. I’d personally like something as clear and blunt as:

"We guarantee access for at least X months/years after paying the license.

After service is suspended we will release all information and code necessary to set up a private server or otherwise restore function."

And for the worst kind:

"We make no guarantees of access duration, and can revoke your access immediately after paying the license.

After service is suspended we will not release information or code necessary to set up a private server or otherwise restore function."

Ideally the last type dies out completely, or becomes exceedingly rare.

These always online, server-dependent, licence-limited games are very unlike what we used to deal with; Books, DVDs, CDs, and other games on disk/cartridge or with a simple download that you can keep and use for as long as you live as long as they’re still stored and in readable condition.

They’re very different, and should be treated like it.

There should be a very clear visual difference when looking at the box or store page of a game that is made to simply last as long as you keep the code stored, and a game that won’t. A consistent warning design. Maybe two color codes.

I just think that broadly, I should be the one making decisions. Not you, with your dumbass lead poisoned brain.

I think you’re unreasonable, would vote against your own interest, and I’ll instead just change your life the way I see fit. Because I’m reasonable. I’m smarter and better than you.

Not voting wasn’t productive

You’re a motherfucker with your human rights violating humor. Also, dads are motherfuckers. Also, the user who thought you were theirs shouldn’t get back in contact with a dad that would subject a stranger to that kind of humor.

Your dad is a real motherfucker, Lally.

If my advice means anything, don’t get reunited.

I’m from Estonian Lemmy, and I’m not even Estonian!

They struggled to understand “Covid bereaved” I’m guessing. Might’ve triggered a flood of frustration that temporarily shut down their faculties and made the entire title difficult for them.

This place really loves slop from random garbage sources, we’ll share anything with a URL.

Read your quote and my comment again, genius.

Yeah okay, so it sounds like he’s the kind of guy who’ll build a framework, or most of it, and won’t ever really become capable of hosting a lot of videos at a watchable quality.

Technically he’ll probably have built something basically functional the community could rally behind and get going. But that won’t happen, because the people who care about the Fediverse are few, insufficiently resourceful, and most importantly don’t care about shorts.

People really don’t seem to appreciate that descendants of Europeans took up arms and pens and fight and argued to end slavery. Of course, slavery is ongoing right now. Including in the United States at a small scale. It never ended. We didn’t really want to completely end it. We still believe in the idea of slavery, just not generalized enslavement of entire ethnic groups.

Regardless of that, the slaves almost never freed themselves. They never got to a point where them or their descendants got to dictate the terms.

Yeah I don’t get the drama with this one. Unless you’re some disappointed investor.

For me, with no stake in this, it’s fun. A bit weird and bad, but I’ve seen worse stuff. I feel like someone tried to do something interesting with that “Bird that wants to be a Plane” video.

In my mind I pictured the bird as Sora/GPT and the plane as the theorized incredible and perfect general AI behemoth.

Imagining the current AI as dumb, incapable and small. Not really able to understand the plane, only sort of, in it’s little bird way.

1TB is incredibly low, wow.

Why do we give companies the power to do things we don’t agree with?

Nursing/Kindergarten or something? Isn’t that about that high?

I mean it still works for getting attention, but it’s not exactly respectable and there are some people who really don’t like them.

You really think these entitled assholes should be handed hundreds of thousands of £££ just because they got sick?

Stop taking my rich friend’s money!

The simple fact is that Muslims have made themselves very dislikable.

A majority is either disinterested in their wellbeing and waiting to see the far right make their move, or actively wanting to cause harm and joining the far right and preparing to make their move.

There are comparably few left who are actively protective of Muslims.

If action had been taken sooner or is taken soon to exile antagonistic immigrants from their host countries, the far right wave may be mitigated. The ethical arguments underpinning current immigration policy are not supported by democratic consensus.

Few Eastern and Southern Europeans give a shit, Northern Europeans are all in, way more votes per capita. Sweden rallying together a whopping 0.13% of the country.