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[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 110 points 11 hours ago (21 children)

I... want to see that 9 kg necklace. I mean, sounds like it's just a big-ass chain, but if so, how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

What does it mean?

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jaywalking as a concept is so weird to me. Don't live in the US, that's probably why.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

They do. They do not care. It's part of the problem.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

No. Carbon offsetting is a scam and does not do shit for the environment.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago

Yes, you almost got it. Well done. I'll leave you with that.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, the point is that just because you pirated it, it doesn't mean you would have paid for the content if there were no way to pirate it.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

Hell no. Too much drama.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You basically wrote what I did, but from a different viewpoint.

Your example with the cinema is also a typical apple and oranges example comparing a digital distribution with a physical service. Yes, when you sneak into a cinema the cinema provider is losing revenue because you take a seat someone else might have paid for. So at some point the cinema is full and cannot accommodate any more people that paid which would prompt the provider to check tickets.

There is no such scenario for digital distribution. You are not taking anyone's space. The provider can sell their product infinitely often. You even already pay for the traffic you cause with your internet connection. It is a very different situation but is always equated because online piracy is of course the worst problem ever.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

"The pay-TV provider suffered damage in the millions as a result," the ZCB announced without providing further details. The content providers speak of high revenue losses due to piracy on an "industrial scale".

Natürlich. Jeder hätte auf jeden Fall das legale Angebot abonniert, gäbe es da nicht diesen illegalen Service. Klar, macht Sinn. Gibt auf keinen Fall die Möglichkeit, dass die Leute dann einfach nichts abonnieren, natürlich nicht, nein.

Edit: sorry, didn't realise this might be an English community. Just wrote sarcastically that obviously everyone who subscribed to the illegal service will now certainly go for the legal alternative. Which is why it totally makes sense to mark these as lost revenue. Absolutely not possible that people might just no subscribe to the legal service, nope.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago

Surprise, banks also pull disgusting shit. Who would have thought about that.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry! It'll come back at a different time, under a different name, with less announcements around it.

 

I've been thinking about organising my growing library a bit, mostly to mark games I consider as completed.

But also to mark games I played but lost interest in, or games I've finished together with my kids instead of myself alone.

I started doing that in Steam but as I added games via GOG or Epic Games store, or emulators, Steam and would lose their tags (or rather their belonging to a collection) as soon as I uninstalled them.

Also if as a bonus the system could suggest new games based on what I finished or maybe based on ratings I give, that would be nice but not necessary.

Is there any straightforward solution to use? Either general something device-independent or specifically on the Steamdeck locally. Can also selfhost software if there is anything good.

How are you all doing that?

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