It’s a bit long but it does check out.

I used to pirate a lot when I was younger and didn’t have the money.

Now Epic Games and Amazon Games take care that I never have to buy games any more because they give them away for free. I only buy games if there’s a specific one I really want to play.

For the same reason I don’t need to pirate any more either, it’s just not worth the risk of catching malware or something, and there’s more than enough free games around.

But what I wanted to say is the alternative to piracy is playing free games, not paying for a game.

Again, it’s about shrinking chips, not shrinking phones. With smaller chips there is more space for other things like slightly larger batteries. Phone size is not dictated by chip size.

This. Running a country like a business is not good.

You aren’t wrong that the US is losing its appeal in general. But Trump is putting the breaks on hard right now.

It’s one thing to say “Well, US is kinda boring, nothing worth seeing there”, and it’s another thing fearing whether you will make it back home if you go there.

Even if the US was still the coolest place to be in 2025 (which it is certainly not), I would not consider booking a ticket. The fear of losing the money I invested in the trip in case they don’t let me in at the border would be enough to not go to the US, but being afraid that I might be detained or shipped to some random 3rd country because they don’t like my social media posts is certainly enough to make sure I’d never go there.

I heard North Korea is a pretty nice place to visit. Still not going there even if the trip was for free.

The analogy is that on the one hand you have a corporation where you know who they are, where you know which laws they are governed by, where you know how to file a privacy complaint, where you know who to sue in case something goes wrong. And you don’t trust them.

Instead you choose to trust some rando from the internet. Where anyone with a sane mind knows they will get screwed over.

I’'d argue changing who can see your data from either a large group to a smaller one or one you do trust vs one you do not trust precisely is protecting your privacy.

It’s always astounding to me that people put more trust in an intangible rando from the internet than into organizations governed by law. Like those people who don’t accept mainstream medicine but eat random supplements they imported from India by the kilogram.

Also FWIW you can host your VPN, you do not have to rely on a commercial VPN provider.

Sure you can. And where does that traffic go?

If you e.g. host a VPN in your home network and you connect to it from your phone, and then you use this connection to access the internet, then your traffic will just be visible to your home network’s ISP instead of your phone’s ISP.

Apart from maybe you, everyone knows that it’s currently legal. Why do you so urgently want to discuss it?

But ok, let’s catch you up to speed. It is currently legal. Everyone knows that. Do you want me to repeat it?

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With that out of the way, answer the question or go away.

It has nothing to do with hypotheticals but with goals. Do you do the same when you negotiate for your salary?

“Do you want a raise?” - “No, I don’t deal in hypotheticals. Understand how much I earn.” - “Ok, no raise for you.”

This can only be sarcasm.

I’ve seen it often enough that people are too dumb to read articles they post to understand that the article disproves their point.

But you are too dumb to even read the headline which already disproves your point.

The article is utter garbage and misunderstands dimensions.

The new strategy allows for pads to be closer together not for the whole thing to be flatter. It allows to shrink sideways, not in height.

It took me quite some time to figure it out!

Sure, the car is red, so it must sell for $100k.

It’s on the same level as the rest of your post. Pure lies, nothing else.

Username does check out.

You know what’s better than guesstimates and gut feelings?

Actual statistics: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10575677211036498

In adjusted 2020 USD, the economic yield from panhandling is most often  $2–$16 per hour, $20–$60 per day, and $200–$500 per month

Slightly less than your projected $45 for 8 hours a day.

Yes, he’s heard that from a reliable source on facebook and/or his drunk buddy.

His buddy is also able to make up any statistic he could need right on the spot.

Sure, starving is a much better way to go.

Now we only need someone to make a Linux handheld with an Nvidia GPU and then we’ll finally get some decent drivers for gaming laptops (which, sadly, are pretty much Nvidia-only).

I use a toilet for that.

As I said, it doesn’t protect, it changes who can see the data.

Your ISP might not be able to see it, but your VPN provider will instead. VPN providers are hardly ever under any kind of regulation, except those run by secret services, of which there are many.

And there are more than enough VPNs that sell customer data while claiming to be amazing for your privacy.

You keep ignoring the question. The question is not “is it legal” but “should it be legal”.

Because petitions are about changing laws. They are the process through which the population can ask for a law change.

I have no idea why you keep bringing up copyright. Copyright is not a magical “get out of jail free” card that excempts you from following the law. It literally has nothing to do with the discussion at hand, same as whether this is legal right now or not. Your comments are constantly offtopic.

1: that’s offtopic. Neither does anyone advocate for buyers purchasing the copyright, nor does the copyrhight give the copyright owner unmitigated power to do whatever they want (aka disregard laws).

What the petition asks for is that people actually own their licensed copy and that ownership of the copy is treated the same as ownership of any other copy of any IP. For example, if you own a book, you too own a licensed copy of the book. This means that e.g. the copyright owner cannot legally stop you from reselling the copy (and believe me, they tried. But laws were enacted to stop that).

The owner of a book also doesn’t have the right to unilaterally revoke your license to the book. They legally cannot put fine print somewhere into the book that dicdates that you have to return the book when they ask you to or anything like that.

The petition asks the same for games:

• Publishers need to be legally stopped from limiting the buyers from using the copy they bought.

2: That is discussed in the petition as well. I recommend that you read the petition before commenting about it.

Isn’t that the same statement twice?