Legal Eagle? Let’s french this up a bit and call him L’Eagle.

I would definitely want my door locked for that.

Maybe not your particular board, but platformio supports Linux for ages. I worked with that 6 years ago (on arch, btw).

But that’s a good thing. If everyone considers the status quo as final, no one would research anything. It’s fine to question stuff, if you at least follow scientific methodologies. Just saying “nah, I don’t buy it” and then leaning back doing nothing is just lazy, and not critical thinking.

If we only ever act on things we think we got 100% nailed down, we will either be as ignorant as these fools who locked Semmelweis away or we will stop doing anything at all, because realistically there is always a chance we got some seemingly basic understanding wrong.

The only intelligent thing is to work with a good mix of “what you know” paired with a sane amount of “critical thinking” and an assessment of potentially involved risks.

Covid was also an example (at least here in Germany). People fought against the invonvenience of having to wear masks or stay inside (or get vaccinated) because (as they said) we don’t know for certain how dangerous the illness really is and/or how effectice these measures are.

For me the calculation was simple: doing these measures and being wrong has far far less fatal consequences than being wrong and not doing these measures.

IMO the common sense part isn’t “oh right of course those are germs”, but following the observation that points to some correlation. They don’t have to know or understand the root cause to at least consider (or accept) that something is wrong.

But daddy…

Motion denied.

Sure, but the thing is: only a single person needs to break it temporarily in some way and this person can then leak the DRM free copy for everyone to consume.

That’s why DRM is such bullshit. It only ever punishes legitimate users. All others are unaffected.

Tell me which so I can develop a competing service and steal your userbase!

Or Battlestar Galactica. Create a new species, make them humanoid, make them sentient, and then treat them like shit. Great.

Remember that there were also big campaigns against tape recorders and VCR. They even managed to get VCR vendors to implement a feature that prevents users from skipping ads. So it’s not like it’s simply legal, the media corps were just not as successful in their lobbying as they are today.

Lemmy is the right place for sarcastic comments though.

So we could use a blockchain… (/s)

The stacking I know means if player 1 puts down a +4 and player 2 happens to have a +4 he can evade his penalty by stacking. If player 1 doesn’t have another +4 now he needs to draw the stacked 8 cards. If he had a +4, player 2 might now have to draw 12 instead, and so on.

Unless they are given. But typically in these constellations they aren’t.

That’s not easier than not needing a VPN in the first place.

Piracy has never been easier or safer or faster than it is now

What?! It was way easier and safer in the era of Napster, edonkey and emule. Easy discoverability and companies didn’t pay any attention yet. Since then it’s a cat and mouse game.

My point was: they likely have to pay for licensed music to the content mafia, so they cannot really offer anything without including music in the pricing.

Music might really be their main problem. Basically every video has some music in it. If not in the foreground, then in the background. Even game soundtracks in Let’s Plays are often under license. So the moment someone plays any such video, the content mafia comes around the corner with their baseball bats in hand collecting their tolls.

So I assume if they have to pay for music any way, they figured they might as well include a tailored music listening experience with Premium.