So many firms with different rules, seemingly a law unto themselves. No way to appeal when they know they are already right.
They should not be able to impose the levels of fines they try to now. They should be spot checked from time to time to ensure they have processes in place to deal with people fairly.
Bowtie for the duck. Not for me though.
Birthdays late December/early January suck.
Everyone is busy, everywhere puts the prices up if you do manage to get people together and then there's the joint Xmas and birthday gifts, ugh.
Anon needs to get out to a all you can eat buffet, eat a good meal go home and sleep it off. Probably won't land them a partner but they'll get to try a bunch of foods and have a conversation starter for when they do meet up with someone.
For us no.
For Joe public yes.
It's all about the numbers, go after a few to scare the masses then give them a safe alternative.
If enshitification comes in to it and it starts to look better to pirate (shows/films disappearing, ads, bloat, needing 15 different subscriptions and so on) then piracy will increase again.
For me Netflix/Disney+/Prime have laid the foundation of no longer relying on Sky's overpriced satellite packages at least so there's a positive.
I can only imagine but doesn't make it less true.
Looks a little like David Mitchell, the British comedian. That's kinda scary in itself.
It's about making it easily available so it's more effort to pirate it. If it's available on a streaming service you already have or you can purchase it for not a lot then most people will take the easy way out and pay.
I think I've settled on a new 4k monitor to replace the pair of aging NEC screens I have.
I can never think of anything, which is worse as my birthday is in December too 😔
Vampire Survivors, Wreckfest, Slay the Princess, Hue.
I'll go plain old paracetamol which works for me most of the time. If that fails then ibuprofen would be my next choice.
Emulators have always existed alongside their consoles. That's to only way you get enough talent involved in a project like that. Difference is these days computers are fast enough to emulate the consoles much better and the architecture they use is a lot closer to what the PC is using anyway in a lot of cases, or at least a documented strain of ARM with a few custom tweaks.
The people working on the emulators are pioneers forging a path that takes a massive amount of time and effort. Trial and error, tweaking and ironing out the kinks can last years.
What about the 'American' companies that plonked their headquarters in Ireland for tax purposes?
Surely that makes them Irish for tarrif purposes?