It’s a mix, and not necessarily limited to older laptops.

You want to stay up to date with security updates as much as possible. Feature updates are not as important, especially if you want the least bugs.

On windows you can defer security and feature updates separately, I typically set 1 week for security and 1 year for feature updates (Assuming they haven’t changed that option again). That’s been enough for me to dodge the data-deleting updates.

For Linux, I don’t think it’s separated as a quick user option so cleanly. You can install the LTS (Long Term Support) version of your distro. The maintainers of that will do security/bug fixes as needed and slowly push feature updates when they are very well tested.

I agree, if an IP is abandoned then someone else should be allowed to do something with it.

For this post I was talking about the game that was already made and distributed, not just the idea or characters.

I’ll use Mario Kart 1 for example, if Nintendo doesn’t sell that game anymore, then the game is made publicly available.

If the IP is still in use that A) doesn’t exclude Mario Kart 1 form becoming available, B) doesn’t allow competitors to sell modern Mario Kart games (trademark) and C) prevents someone from taking a 30 year old game and just reselling it on their store.

IPs are much more messy to handle, as it’s less a final product and more of a concept. Creative rights should stay with the creative people not a publisher.

If Nintendo decides to drop Mario, but the actual creator of Mario still wants to work with a different publisher, they should be able to do that before the IP becomes freely available for anyone to take over.

I like it. If the publisher no longer sells/supports the full game as purchased, then they no longer to get to complain about people pirating it.

I don’t like instantly throwing it public domain, that’s the wrong license to use. I think Creative Common CC BY-NC-SA would be more appropriate. (Credit the original, no commercial use, and any modified/redistributed version must follow same license).

This will prevent xbox from taking all the old PlayStation games, stealing an emulator, and selling them under game pass to people that don’t know those games are freely available.

I’d also add the game must be available as an individual 1-time purchase. If it’s only available as a bundle or subscription service (like game pass), that doesn’t count.

Likes other says it’s a spectrum.

Think about how a leg issue can be different;

• some people might walk perfectly normal but it starts to hurt after 5 min and they can’t lift too much.
• some might have a limp.
• some might need a cane.
• some might need a wheelchair but can still walk a few feet.
• some might wheelchair and not be able to walk.
• some might not a leg
• some might not have either legs

No matter what it is, it’s still a disability, just are some are more of a struggle than others.

Autism has a spectrum too, the problem is somewhere in the brain so we can’t see it like we can see a cane or missing leg. Things like asthma or color blindness are disabilities too, but we can’t see those either.

Nah, but if never stop talking about the absurdity of it all, we’ll start to think it’s the way things should be.

So why is this part of a budget? Why are they allowed to pass laws/regulations as a footnote to a budget.

Its insane, if I presented a budget for approval and it included footnotes adding in random unrelated policies I’d be laughed out of a job.

I’ll assume you brush your teeth at night, that helps a lot. If you also brush your teeth first thing in the morning, the taste will be gone. A mouthwash might also do the trick if you don’t want to brush immediately.

Or eat a fruit or something.

That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.

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There’s all kind of dev work that needs to be done in industries that aren’t “tech first”, for example a industrial machine manufacture needs someone to program the robot arms and gui - ai doesn’t know how the brand new machine works.

Commercial buildings have all kinds of systems; lighting controllers, audio systems, HVAC, networks, security systems and so on. All of that needs both someone to program the device (and firmware support) and someone to physically deploy and integrate those systems.

It’s pretty hard to avoid corporate hell. Some people find success in smaller, well established, private companies. Less corporate nonsense, or at least HR knows your name and there’s no investors demanding a mass-layoff.

My suggestion is to find something where you’re on-staff for a company that exists outside of the “digital” realm.

Resources in The United States

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 9-8-8 https://988lifeline.org/

Veterans Crisis Line 9-8-8, Press 1 https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 https://www.crisistextline.org/

TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth) https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community) https://translifeline.org/

(copied from duckduckgo)

Not mentioned is 911, if you’re actively considering something call them too.

Well that script was ran on enough other computers, so the magic algorithm decided if everyone else ran it, it must be fine.

Put an indicator light on the glasses with a sensor to make sure it’s on from the nose bridge.

This is that part that’s missing, it’s more obvious when someone is holding their phone to record you. Phone’s should probably have an indicator too…

The cookie dough they use in cookie dough flavored things is safe to eat, mainly the raw egg is not there.

There’s no way they would purposely sell us anything with immediate health risk that can be easily pinned on them.

Also not all sushi is raw fish, some is cooked. Improperly handled raw fish can be very dangerous, so only eat it at places you trust (I.e maybe not the buffet or grocery sushi).

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Same here… But in my defense the guy that runs the corner store near me has one, and Apu from Simpsons comes to mind too (the two have completely different accect btw

The original “The Princess Bride” by S. Morgenstern