Because it’s like asking you for an ID to purchase alcohol. And you’re standing there with a full beard, some wrinkles in your skin and having an aged look. It’s insulting.

But I guess you wouldn’t know that because OMGVALVE!!

Oh no, I pissed off the angry little children and their alts. What won’t I do? :(

Oh, you’re welcome. I say as I’m not trudging through that whole blob of text.

I hate all age verification checks, I even hate Steam’s when they present me that dumb number drop list before I see a game’s store page based on its content. If you know my age, you don’t need to ever fucking ask me. If I’ve told you, with a straight face and no malicious intent that “I’m over 30” “I’m over 30” “I’m over 30” then STOP ASKING ME FOR MY AGE!!

Now something I don’t see some people talk about is that, there are people out there who have lied about their age. It’s nothing new. You’ve done it. I’ve done it. We’ve collectively been building a platform for this to eventually be coming and we’re paying some of that price.

With Discord going Public in March and this rolling out in March, it goes hand and hand.

The reality is, is that we’re going to be the only ones who care.

Everyone didn’t go from GMail to Proton or others. Everyone didn’t go from Reddit to Lemmy. Everyone didn’t go from Telegram to Signal. Everyone didn’t go from Twitter to Mastodon (Bluesky I guess works?)

This is going to be no different.

And Google will fold.

Blame the popularity of reaction videos, because they’re dumb in general for ever existing.

Welp, there you go. But, I never touch that shitty X platform and I don’t dare register an account there ever again to really care looking. Too much drama and cringe on that platform that has a sad stranglehold on many people’s lives.

Since it’s a Redditor and Redditor information is by default, to be taken with many levels of skepticism. I’m under the impression that this ‘criticism’ are probably in the form of people telling said Redditor that they’re a bullshitter.

I’ve done a quick search to find an image of this copy and I’m not surprised that I have not found it word for word. The only thing close that I’ve found was a letter he actually did write to Hollywood, back in 2012

So it’s likely that this Redditor, probably hashed up a made-up tweet image because it’s a common way to stir up bullshit, like any lowlife Redditor would want to do when they’re bored.

Oh and I ran a Google image search on this image and what came up? The Reddit post itself, go figure.

I stand corrected as someone actually pointed to the source.

Sorry bruh, but I don’t think you’ve taken a closer look at where the RAM prices have gone. Do you truly believe people have that much disposable income to continually upgrade entire machines on a regular basis?

People will ultimately build a system if it will suit their needs and purposes within budget. I don’t get what is there about that to get so complicated over.

What do you mean “they actually listened to the community”? If they’d listen to the community, there’d be NO AI whatsoever.

I had a double take on that number they’re asking for.

$13 Trillion? Geez, fucking greedy much? Not that they haven’t been greedy before, but we’re used to seeing millions and billions that are asked per track (technically they’d ask ridiculous sums of like $10,000 ~ even $100,000 per track in the past). But this just glaringly demonstrate how greedy these fucks really are and they just gotta tell everyone about it.

I still say it was dumb of Anna to bother with Spotify but I like the defiance of just not caring.

Everything is disposable. I don’t think you or the author who wrote that article has a clue. It’s a matter of getting things that’ll last longer than others do and making financially wise choices and purchasing decisions based on the needs of the moment.

Like, I’m not spending $5 on a toothbrush when you need to replace it every 30 days, I buy the cheapest toothbrush I can afford to replace it with since they’re all equally made. I will spend some more money on a computer component if I feel it will have a positive increment on my entire system. Replacing my entire system would just set me back big and it would make me waste the components that are already inside that are still good. Plus, if I decide to sell the old system, I’m not going to get a good value back.

The only thing I’ve yet to replace is the case. Why? Because it’s still serviceable to me.

I just don’t get this stupid logic where you have to replace the entire system. For what? just to be with the in-crowd of current technology trends? No thanks, I’ll build my PC based on what I want out of it.

I don’t fucking care.

It’s just one big event to see how much commercialization can be crammed down people’s throats. The Commercial Bowl isn’t too far away either.

Hope they’re happy with their $10 payout.

I only took part of one class action lawsuit and it was against Facebook. I still look back on that and feel a little regretful. I’m only one dude so I can’t possibly hope to take on Facebook solely in a court environment. I got $14 payout. But in doing so, means I can’t ever legally take action against them anyways.

So, don’t settle for this. Keep Google accountable.

I don’t think anyone should replace Linus Torvalds.

As is the essence of open source, Linux as a whole should fall to the community. The problem though is, there will come a point of disagreements with how things could go.

The only thing that’s being “damaged” is some executive’s plan to lobby or to buy their 5th home. Not to mention their fragile ego.

That’s 67 billion in USD for those curious.

I would say fake goods have more of an impact than piracy does. Come on now, how much more “research” do we need to disprove the “piracy causes lost sales!” claim?

No. I just got tired of dealing with virtual machines. I would’ve hoped that Wine by now would’ve allowed and accepted more 16-bit applications than just stopping at 32-bit.

Would you know if this works for 16-bit games? Like, I’d love to play the Hasbro cereal box games again. Yahtzee, Wheel of Fortune and all them. If so, that alone may just get me to join Linux Mint.

It should never even be questioned. Pedophilia will never be okay. Children cannot reasonably consent and if anyone thinks they do, don’t care to know what ‘grooming’ is or probably is a groomer to make a child believe that.