But pretty median number of them.

This is an already solved problem - EU did it in the past.

You’re right. This is just “SaaS”, “cloud APIs” approach turned to 11 - making some thing unavailable to everyone unless they agree to agree with any conditions you come up in the future. For example, if Github Copilot becomes genuinely and uniquely very useful, that’s bad for the software development industry over the entire world: it means that every single software dev company will have to pay “tax” to Microsoft.

How the fuck can people continue using the word “defense” to describe this?

These writeups never managed to to convince me me that I should not be able to modify any file on my device. If the system is not able to grant this access to me, and me only, while doing it securely, than it’s bad operating system, designed without my interests first on mind. I am absolutely sure that granting so-called “root access” can be done securely, as decades of almost-every-other-OS have shown.

There’s a horror movie about a couple harrased by kids during the stay at the lake. Might be right up your alley!

Aaa, the one temporarily featuring Hitler toaster ;)

Weeeell, there’s a school of though leaning towards the opinion that using VPS is still self-hosting ;)

This. The stuff OP hates in the games is added as the “endgame content” for people planning on spending half their lifetime in the game. That kind of “content” is generally not added to single-player-first games like those you mentioned.

Steve’s dead baby, Steve’s dead.

They are snake oil 🐍 🛢️

Well there’s a base load of the grid that can be effectively served by the non-variable power plants - or is this outdated approach?

You make it sound like the completely predictable power output of nuclear is a problem and unpredictable variation in output of the wind/solar is great.

I can’t be the only one that read “pom” as “porn”.

Bertrand, is that you?

You could also think this applies to all corporations in some degree. But no, there’s a fresh batch of bright eyed optimistic people out of school every year.

Sorry, but that’s irrelevant to “if it’s free…” implication. Those are just unrelated ways companies made suckers out of their customers.

“Let me tell you about my mother…”

And got fired for that??

In third panel those are the person’s arms ;)