Dookieman12

Can’t think of any that started with 2, but there are many examples of sequels making their way to the states masquerading as the first title in a series.

Shadow Tower released on PS1 in Japan only. Shadow Tower 2 was released in Japan on PS2, but when it was released in America, it was just called “Shadow Tower” since no one had heard of the first one.

Not a 2, but there was Clayfighters 63 and 1/3. But that was just a play on the “[Name] 64” naming convention that N64 games commonly used.

Mandatory insurance without proper payouts is just a government-sponsored extortion scheme. It’s paying “protection” to mob goons who will smash up your store anyway because they want more from now on; same energy.

Nice rage bait

It’s not a problem. “Ghost gun” refers to any gun without a serial number, whether it was manufactured without one or simply scratched off. Even under that exceedingly broad definition, these unserialized firearms represent less than 0.1% of all guns in existence.

3D printers aren’t the only way to make a gun. Traditional tooling also works.

Manufacturing guns for personal use is completely legal in most US jurisdictions.

It’s already illegal to manufacture and distribute or sell guns without a license.

“Ghost guns” are a boogeyman invented to sell more surveillance.

Gosh, if only it were illegal to manufacture and sell weapons without a license, then we wouldn’t need all this.

Sloppy investigative work, really. Did they ever even stop to consider the possibility that the trailer simply just did that?

I would expect lots of pushback from corpos on this because it wouldn’t implement tracking dots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

Agreed. To expand on that, I have zero sympathy for anyone who complains about the worldwide rise of fascism while still participating in corporate-owned social media or shopping at Amazon/Temu as anything other than a last resort for essential items.

Like, who do they think is funding all these fascists and where exactly do they think all the money comes from?

Corpos gonna corpo. Anyone who’s seen how meta operates could have and should have expected this. Plus, these are a luxury. Nobody “needs” these to live.

Meta is shitty for doing this but I’m still having a really hard time feeling bad for any of the buyers.

It’s not even that sophisticated. A hearing aid works by directly stimulating the small bones in the ear. This is just a pair of earbuds with audio passthrough and a volume knob

So, even more extra steps for even less functionality, got it.

It only saves your sanity if you have a full AMD build. Otherwise, you better be an IT pro or have the time and inclination to do a lot of learning. Nvidia drivers are notoriously problematic with Linux

Cloud engineer here. I’m going to do my best to provide an adequate explanation without getting bogged down in technical details. As such, some of the following may be simplified or missing details for brevity.

Short answer: Yes.

Medium answer: You CAN, but the better question is, “what would the tradeoff be?”

Long answer: JavaScript was born from a need to have page changes occur client-side. This has some benefits. The main ones are client-side control of page rendering (helps with accessibility), server-side performance, and asynchronous page changes.

The benefit to client-side rendering is that the site host only needs to worry about the content of their site; how it appears to the user is controlled by the user. So, if a user needs high-contrast colors, they can do that on their own; they don’t need to rely on the host to program that functionality.

Next, performance. If no page updates can occur client-side, they must occur server-side, which demands much higher performance from the hosting server. Rendering a page requires a lot more compute than simply transmitting the HTML code and letting the browser figure it out.

Finally, possibly the biggest benefit to JS is the ability to perform asynchronous updates to the page you’re viewing. This is when the browser communicates with the server and updates the page without refreshing the page.

So, depending on the use case, it can be done. For simple, static sites with low traffic and adequate server performance, it’s fine to do. But, the more sophisticated you want the site to be, depending on exactly what you want to do, it may not possible. I don’t think an online store or secure web portal would be possible, for example.

My prediction is: There will be a settlement. Neither party will admit wrongdoing. The settlement money will go to the lawyers. The corporations’ right to manipulate the market will be enshrined.