One question:

"On your first computer, how did you open a program?

Load “*”,8,1 ✅

program.exe ✅

Double click the icon ✅

“Program? Is that like an app?” ❌

Wasn’t that also the name of a Microsoft Surface device? 🤔

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

https://youtu.be/ekg45ub8bsk

Weird, I recently bought that same phone and did not have that problem. Why?

“Do you want to transfer your files from another device?”

No.

Just no. I don’t need your help, I can do this myself. Previous phone is backed up to my NAS, I can restore what I want from there.

I see a new phone as an opportunity to leave stuff behind. It’s on the NAS if I REALLY need it.

It’s definitely a shitty hardware thing.

“Now updating, please wait!”

I mean, technically not “down” but not exactly usable either. 😉

Fiber gear is a little different and I’d rather deal with this than the bullshit data caps and price hike games with Comcast. 😉

The dodgy WiFi gear from my fiber provider requires a hard re-set at least once a week. I had to do that just today.

And when your Internet goes down, you can’t even work locally.

Genius!

I’m sure CoPilot in the cloud already took that into account though and goes off on all sorts of tangents with the user disconnected.

What could possibly go wrong?

Youtube link so you can get to the transcript and such:

https://youtu.be/NU040CTdJI0

Sega hired a junk removal company to get rid of dev kits and cartridges as eWaste.

Instead, they sold it to the guy who got raided.

Sega accuses him of buying stolen material.

“Holographic Storage” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Storage_System

Oh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!

Can it really be an infringement if there’s no physical source though? That’s the question.

Say someone does an online comic strip, I download the images, re-format them for print, and sell a print version.

There is no physical version to bootleg, the only reason a physical copy exists at all is because I put the time and effort into making one.

Same with the “Calvin peeing on things” car stickers. King Features and Bill Watterson could absolutely produce those themselves, but don’t. Watterson refuses to license the character for anything.

At the same time, they also haven’t gone after the people who are producing them.

For gaming, lets say you have a title region locked to Japan but someone sells an unlocked pirated version.

Should they be able to sue for a product variant they very well could make but are choosing not to?

There’s the whole “no harm” rule, if they aren’t being harmed by selling to people who are not and never will be their customers…

No, but they shouldn’t be allowed to sue for physical piracy on products they do not produce physically.

If someone goes to the trouble of designing and printing box and disc art for a product the rights holder won’t do, that’s a problem on the rights holder side.

There’s a demand for physical, fill it, and make the pirate product irrelevant.

“Since Amazon has never released some of these Prime Video series on DVD…”

It’s almost as if the answer were right there…