Not until proven guilty. Don’t you remember the US legal motto? No, not the one about different sets of rules for rich people. The one about innocent until proven guilty.
I had t9 on lock back in the day. Write and send a message without having to look at my phone at all. Sure, there was no internet on there, but that tiny Nokia would stay charged for like 5 days and survive a 20 foot drop on cement without a case.
Fun fact: they would NOT survive being dropped into a gallon of polyurethane floor finish :-(
As always, the paying user has the worst experience. “Purchase” a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done....
I’m 40 and grew up gaming. Your mom is probably younger and also grew up around games. Online gaming has been a thing since the 90’s. Your parents aren’t like my parents were. They won’t call your Playstation a Nintendo.
Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....
Not true at all. You’re thinking the past 20 years instead of the past 35 years. Windows was already “the” OS around the world well before you could just pirate a copy online. They cut deals and made sure if you bought a pc it has windows on it. They made sure the countries you speak of had dirt cheap cd keys without piracy. Microsoft in the late 80s/90s had a lot of moving parts that went into making sure the only OS you’d be using was windows. Even after they got in trouble in 1992-94 and in 2000-2001.
Piracy or not. Windows was almost anyone’s only choice.
Well sure, but now that spot could be in bed or a recliner. I do almost all my gaming with a steamdeck, now. Busy adult life requires this convenient bit of gaming hardware.
Oh man. In 1997 a sweet looking car Called a Plymouth Prowler came out and little tween me made my aim name, email, and eventually ebay name Prowler1234 (numbers changed).
I never thought about how totally sketch it was to be on aim and in forums with the screen name Prowler. Lol
You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life? (lemmy.world)
If you like pina coladas, you might also like walks in the rain (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. (www.bloomberg.com)
It's just a coffee (startrek.website)
the fuckgraph (mander.xyz)
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Thank the EU there’s a prominent “Reject” button nowadays (sh.itjust.works)
Bad dog (lemmy.world)
That rare 1/5 (lemmy.zip)
Legal shit posting (lemmy.world)
Your ads dont work here, brand! (lemmy.world)
Can't outsmart your teacher (telegra.ph)
Why do it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries (www.playstation.com)
As always, the paying user has the worst experience. “Purchase” a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done....
Me posting something on Lemmy then immediately checking the upvotes (lemmy.world)
It really be like that sometimes
What nice vibes (startrek.website)
Based KDE 🗿 (lemmy.ml)
Impossible (telegra.ph)
The whole situation sickens me (slrpnk.net)
Pizza Party (lemmy.today)
no window (feddit.de)
Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy
Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....
It's coming. (lemmy.world)
Does cyber-bullying work ? (lemmy.ml)
I was around during the stone age of the internet (slrpnk.net)
I remember getting AOL CDs in my box of apple jacks