Yep. I buy every game I can on GOG.

SK Hynix has strong incentives to say this. It’s an unremarkable statement.

Nothing new. This is the same bullshit legal framework that underpins the entire software industry and extends back to the mid 90s. It’s just front-and-center in games now because the industry has transitioned from a growth industry to a mature one wherein producers need to extract more revenue per user and predictably enshittify their platforms to do so.

I’ve basically decided that I will not buy any game that I cannot play offline. If I do a buy game, I will also pirate it to ensure continued access. If I can’t pirate it, I won’t buy it.

Fuck em.

Fuck

I look forward to my private sector job being pretty much directly eliminated by stupid executive policy.

I’ll be more specific. The PRC (government) is an enemy to humanity in my view.

Good.

Americans are left with such a terrible, enshittified digital information economy that we must entertain even our enemies for alternatives.

Even if I agreed that such export controls were of significant strategic importance, I don’t think it’s worth applying extreme pressure to our allies to accomplish it. The notion that China can’t innovate becomes less true by the year.

The AI build out is an engineering disaster. China will catch up irrespective of what controls we apply to inhibit them. If we can’t out-compete them, then we lose.

It would probably be much easier to out-compete them if we weren’t actively destroying the greatest network of alliances in human history. We’re fucking morons.

Just don’t reply. Been doing it for years in both personal and work contexts.

I just don’t use AI at all for this. I only use it for formatting my code, auditing my code, and research (that I verify). I would never use it for communication.

In an economy that viscerally sucks already, this is just another body blow.

Good luck. At my shop, we extended from a 36-month refresh cycle to “when the hardware is no longer capable of running a supported operating system”.

SMBs can’t absorb these hardware costs.

No surprises there. They’re more difficult to drive and have bigger blind spots. Yet, Americans love them even when they don’t need the added space.

Literally the only thing I want from modern vehicles is blind spot cameras. And you could argue that’s not particularly modern since they’ve been available for over a decade.

Otherwise, today’s new vehicles are privacy dystopias and it’s becoming quite difficult to find a decent sedan for a midrange price. I have no interest in light trucks or SUVs.

In short, we’ll be sticking with my ICE 2012 Toyota Avalon and 2015 BMW until they stop running. I would like to buy an EV to pair with our solar panels and insulate myself from the whims of the bitch baby in the White House.

But I think I basically can’t do that without giving up my privacy.

Everything sucks.

Thanks for the clarification. I am relatively new to arch.

I think I’d be satisfied with just not allowing people to take over orphaned packages. That seems like a glaring attack vector and closing it would not harm the AUR in any way.

And yea, arch (and its derivatives) probably should not ship with AUR helpers pre-installed.

I realize that I am part of the problem. Unfortunately, I am not motivated to build anything in the tech sector atm. There is no sense of duty or redemption that could override the dread I feel for working in tech. Hopefully that fades with time. But for now, I think any future contributions that I make to society will be in other domains such as politics or social services.

I wasn’t bragging. I was stating reality and how my situation would be a lot more dire without financial autonomy. I feel for those who are not so fortunate and I don’t think it’s acceptable that we’re basically hollowing out the middle class.

Unbelievably naive.

I hear what you’re saying. But as of right now, I have no interest in any of it. The minute I start my workday, I’m already looking forward to turning everything off so I can go do something else. This whole digital information economy is repulsive to me.

I think I’m basically done after my current rig dies. I have no interest in being a peasant in some techno feudalist dystopia. Instead, I’ve been dedicating more time to reading books, writing, traveling, some retro gaming, and working around the house.

It’s enough for me.

These days, as a tech worker, I immediately log out at the end of my workday and shut everything down. I have no further interest. It’s not fun anymore. Frankly, I don’t think I can last until retirement in this space even if my job isn’t automated. I could retire today if I wanted to. But most people aren’t in that situation and I have no idea what I would do if I didn’t have the financial autonomy that I enjoy. And I got here–in part–by building parts of the platforms that harm us (social media). So that feels great.

We live in a dystopia. Everything fucking sucks.