Don’t forget the “major” version increment that breaks “lifetime”.

• Oh, you’re mistaken. The license is for the lifetime of version 32. To use version 33 you must upgrade. But no rush, you have until version 33.1 before we activate the kill switch.

Tell that to the kids and pets that got run over because they were in a blind spot, backup cameras help to prevent that.

I completely understand not wanting the whole suite of modern safety features, I hate most them too, but they do save lives. If you don’t drive that much, then they shouldn’t bother you if they are there. Most can be turned off anyway. If you’re that desperate to not have a rear cam, just tape over it, but please don’t.

Even the “cheap”, sub $30k new cars come with a lot of the safety features standard now. (Based on general internet rumblings), a used 2018-2022 higher trim car will probably be the sweet spot between having some of the safety features (that can be turned off), physical AC controls, and not having the ads and giant tablet screens. Personally, I wouldn’t go any older than 2020 unless you find something well taken care of. A 2018 model year would have be released summer 2017, 9 years ago.

I get not wanting the internal camera and telemetry crap, but not wanting the other stuff puts you in the same group of people that opposed seat belts when they first became mandatory for cars.

Backup cams, lane warnings, blind spot detection, and auto breaking are all incredible advancements that have significantly improved vehicle saftey.

The features I don’t like are things that take total control of the car like auto pilot, lane merging, auto park, or lane correction. It should not fight you trying to avoid something on the road. A little beep to say, “hey you’re leaving the lane” is okay, a little beep to remind you to keep your eyes on the road is theoretically okay (but we all know the massive privacy concerns with that one.)

And to answer your question, yes you can get still cars with less of those features. Often the more advanced automation features are sold as an add-ons package or at higher trim level. Unfortunately, comforts like heated seats or motorized trunks are part of the same package, there is no getting one with out the other.

I still use Simple note.

While I’d prefer one that isn’t owned by the same people as WordPress and not sync to their cloud, it is open source and free. I figure it beats Google or MS notes, and don’t have to manage syncing all the files. No AI nonsense either (at least for now)

Easy for shopping lists and jotting stuff down, there’s an app for all the major OSs. I definitely don’t trust it for anything important or sensitive.

…yes, I definitely read your entire post and repeated exactly what you said for fun.

Why have an extension for this?

On Firefox (desktop and mobile) you can easily add it as your default search engine. It can be done in Vivaldi too (not sure if its a chrome default or Vivaldi addition).

They could just have a 1 paragraph guide telling you how to do it.

I hope you saved what you could from that exchange, as well the attempts to contact them. If they ever notice, their AI mistake will become your problem to deal with, (and the kind of news story to end up on a Steve Lehto video).

If that happened to me, I’d have a chat with my bank, “please help me return this money to where it came from, it was payed in error. They have no way to contact a human and I don’t want them to accuse me of fraud down the line”.

Hypothetical bullshit on what could happen;

July 1st, after a whole bunch of panic buys, "we’ve listened to community feedback and re-evaluated our pricing to be more in line with our community values. We are happy to announce a lifetime $300 Plex Subscriptions, it comes with an industry leading 2 year of Plex Pass at no cost.

Hey don’t lump me in with those whiny clowns! I’m a whiny clown in a clown suit. Damn foreigners making extremely generalized assumptions about us /s

Unfortunately, that’s probably not gonna happen without some new hardware.

You could setup a wire guard at the router (can you setup tail scale on a router? idk). If she’s renting the ISP router, replacing that could save a 100+ a year, depending on how much the isp is scamming her for it.

or you could repurpose a minipc/nuc from bay and set up a jellyfin streaming box with tailscale.

If you have the extra hardware, you could also setup a local server with her jellyfin and use wiregaurd/tailscale to remotely connect to it and run backup/sync during off-hours.

Is it time block headlines with “quiet”? Its like AI decided that word gets the most clicks and its showing up everywhere.

Well, there’s a big difference between “knowing” something and knowing something (i.e proof your intuition is right).

Because what Bamboo has done is screw over existing customers. People want their printers back to the way they baught it. They shouldn’t have to throw their printers in the trash because the manufacture decided to changed the conditions.

If you buy a car with heated seats and 3 years later, the manufacture decided to disable your heated seats unless you paid a subscription, you’d be pretty upset.

We should make cars with same break as the saw stop.

It’ll be fun to watch.

I mean…if it stops the exploitation of the “stars”, that’s a net positive. There’s some horror stories out there.

Someone will probably find a massive vulnerability that affects every version of windows, because why not?

Accountable advertisers? In this economy?

Its gonna have to be case specific. -which as you said, is why it’s not so easy to make law.

If a Taylor Swift doppelganger started claiming to be Taylor Swift and making a scene, then sure the real one should be able to shut that down.

If the doppelganger started her own music career with her own name and music, then Taylor Swift can’t do shit.

If the doppelganger is somehow artificially created (computer generated or elaborate makeup/costume) than it does not have the same rights, and can be shutdown (unless its falls into the parody category, but even then it should be obviously not real).

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.