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.

Nah, but if never stop talking about the absurdity of it all, we’ll start to think it’s the way things should be.

So why is this part of a budget? Why are they allowed to pass laws/regulations as a footnote to a budget.

Its insane, if I presented a budget for approval and it included footnotes adding in random unrelated policies I’d be laughed out of a job.

I’ll assume you brush your teeth at night, that helps a lot. If you also brush your teeth first thing in the morning, the taste will be gone. A mouthwash might also do the trick if you don’t want to brush immediately.

Or eat a fruit or something.

That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.

There’s all kind of dev work that needs to be done in industries that aren’t “tech first”, for example a industrial machine manufacture needs someone to program the robot arms and gui - ai doesn’t know how the brand new machine works.

Commercial buildings have all kinds of systems; lighting controllers, audio systems, HVAC, networks, security systems and so on. All of that needs both someone to program the device (and firmware support) and someone to physically deploy and integrate those systems.

It’s pretty hard to avoid corporate hell. Some people find success in smaller, well established, private companies. Less corporate nonsense, or at least HR knows your name and there’s no investors demanding a mass-layoff.

My suggestion is to find something where you’re on-staff for a company that exists outside of the “digital” realm.

Resources in The United States

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 9-8-8 https://988lifeline.org/

Veterans Crisis Line 9-8-8, Press 1 https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 https://www.crisistextline.org/

TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth) https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community) https://translifeline.org/

(copied from duckduckgo)

Not mentioned is 911, if you’re actively considering something call them too.

Put an indicator light on the glasses with a sensor to make sure it’s on from the nose bridge.

This is that part that’s missing, it’s more obvious when someone is holding their phone to record you. Phone’s should probably have an indicator too…

The cookie dough they use in cookie dough flavored things is safe to eat, mainly the raw egg is not there.

There’s no way they would purposely sell us anything with immediate health risk that can be easily pinned on them.

Also not all sushi is raw fish, some is cooked. Improperly handled raw fish can be very dangerous, so only eat it at places you trust (I.e maybe not the buffet or grocery sushi).

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The original “The Princess Bride” by S. Morgenstern

That second one is on HR - should have changed their name in the system.

I think a lot people crying about 8GB, are (or were) heavy windows users. They expect the os to take 4 of that, chrome to take 3 and only have 1GB left.

In reality any one who wants to game, use the ram for crazy data calculations, or do creative work professionally won’t be looking at the neo for reasons beyond the ram size.

(But yes, the non upgradable part sucks).

The performance of an m1 chips is still impressive for a “budget” laptop, and the built in finger warmer is nice when you leave the metal laptop out in the cold.

It’ll be good for someone, non-technical, who just needs a computer for the simple stuff in life. For a student it’ll be great, and when a class that wants them to edit a video or they need to “Photoshop” something - it will work for that. (Maybe not greatly, but it will work), you can’t say the same for a Chromebook.

The low ram is certainly a bummer and will hold it back, but with a properly optimized OS, it will probably fine for a few years.

The need for a dongle is just part the apple expirence, right? If you don’t want a dongle, go get a usbc to hdmi cable. Quite honestly, I’d love to see HDMI die out and be replaced with USBC, its a smaller connector and a good USBC cable can be used for other things too. Also if you’re hooking up a second display, chances are its a stationary setup and only having to plug in the 1 dongle for your “desk” is very helpful.

Yes, give it a robot arm to remove the cone. Or hire transformers for the job.

I’m pretty certain, but could be remembering wrong, they paused development when YouTube/Google was going nuts breaking adblock, which broke the extension. The dev eventually removed their adblock and made everything else work.