Digital media means that there is an ongoing service behind it.

I could download my file and be done with it. If I throw away or damage my super fragile bluray I’m not entitled to a new copy. I don’t even need to be able to redownload (although it’s a nice service). It means there is an ongoing service behind it because they decide it and because they are afraid I will share with my friends - which is about as difficult as finding the media elsewhere online.

With no more cash coming in, the service goes bankrupt.

Same issue with physical media. Suddenly your expensive factory is idle, your employees don’t produce anything. We still get to buy movies and not rent them perpetually.

Why I don’t get is why they fight so hard to promote piracy though. It’s not enough that it’s free, it also has to be easier?

Nah. But attacking Jews who have no part in the genocide merely because they are Jews is.

Denmark. I bought something from the US. About 300 DKK. I had to pay for shipping. About 300 DKK. I had to pay the toll. I had to pay a mandatory 120 DKK fee for the postal service to charge the toll. I had to pay taxes on the fee. I had to pay taxes on the purchase. I had to pay taxes on the shipping.

In the end I paid about 1000 DKK for a 300 DKK package.

Lemmy.ml sucks. I really need to move on.

An Enermax keyboard has been my daily driver as a programmer for my career that started in 2007. It still works just fine and I still have no reason to change to something else. Lots of reasons not to, since I like the classic keyboard layout and the flat laptop keys.

I have a video game joke. It’s not done yet, but I’ll tell you anyway. The punchline will cost you extra though.

Who would have thought that a box of all things would be a useful cat repellant.

Then why use the label “Patriarchy”? It has a very specific meaning that I don’t feel applies to many western societies and definitely not to the sociatal structure and norms that we happen to live in, regardless of who is in charge. I think we agree on everything but the term.

I hate this way of putting it, especially because it puts the blame on a single gender. It’s not JUST men who shoehorn people into gender roles, we all do it.

It’s off putting to me and I tend to dismiss the entire thing because it basically says that men being bad also hurts men. Had it said that men also are victims of gender roles I would immediately agree, and I can’t imagine that I’m the only one who feels this way.

But… Rot is life?

I’m a software engineer too. I’ll tell you what changed. I have a kid. Daycare was shut down, but since both my wife and I can work from home we were expected to do just that. We got to spend a lot of time with the then two year old, but hardly saw each other except for the back of the head because one of us was always working. What was your corona project? Surviving, that’s what!

Why were the doors locked though? These people came expecting a horribly bland experience, but got LOTR instead! WIN!

Girls are people too!

Oh, he’ll just change the unit test if it fails.

Not the giant walking potato next to it?!

I don’t. Not much less either, I don’t interact much with social media. Not that I don’t want to, but I rarely have anything of worth to contribute. To make matters worse, Lemmy is mostly missing the communities that I’m interested in, of if they’re there, they have little engagement. On reddit it was a little better, and Facebook is just insane in comparison.

But mostly I don’t have anything to say, and if I do it’s mostly stupid. My primary means of helping Lemmy is to not interact (much).

So not Signal, or…?

On second thought, nevrmind.

But then how will I avoid breaking rules in the future?

That won’t be an issue.