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Interesting. I’ll have to look for that. I don’t believe I’ve actually seen the prompt yet.

Goddammit… Right after I got the lifetime pass…

Ooooh. I see now.

I can’t provide a solution to a drm issue here.

I think Calibre can convert en masse. May be mistaken.

https://calibre-ebook.com/download

Can’t wait till they get the ability to decrypt all the shit we’ve been sending over signal. Shits gonna get real interesting.

They’re just storing that shit up, waiting for the day…

It’ll be a bloodbath.

“Studies published in the 1990s concluded that D.A.R.E. had little to no effectiveness in preventing drug use in elementary, middle, or high school students, and may actually lead to increased drug use.” https://www.britannica.com/procon/DARE-Drug-Abuse-Resistance-Education-debate

Never tried. I’m a ps guy now, but the point is that there shouldn’t be region codes to begin with.

Anywhere I’ve ever seen a region code to be changeable you only get to change it a certain number of times before you get stuck in a region. This is why you’ll find TBD players that have been firmware flashed to be regionless.

Uh, we kinda tricked rocks into thinking using lightening and learned to use rocks to make AI…

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They’re the Disney of gaming, really.

So, this is a basic security principle. If the system of access is too “secure” or too inconvenient, people will create workarounds.

Need keys for all the doors every second of every day? You’ll find duct tape on all the latches.

Password is 15 characters and changes every 60 days? You’re going to find post-its under keyboards.

Spread all digital content across 8 streaming providers that cost about $180/y? Torrent time.

Nintendo wants to brick users for trying to play an out of region game they paid for? They’ll never pay again and will reverse engineering your shit out of spite.

Same thing we saw with the music industry utterly failing to embrace internet distribution. Limewire and bearshare are their fucking lunch.

When will they learn to just make access easy? People, generally, would rather pay than pirate but when you start making shit difficult, nobody wants to play your games anymore and you see massive losses.

Meet your customers where they’re at!

There’s another way to egg?

Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.

Sphynx of black quartz, JUDGE MY VOW!

Funny, I experimented with DDG, and they gave me a wikiHow with instructions on how to spend your final days if you know you’re dying. I guess the search engine makes all the difference.

Better question. When does reddit run out of real users.

Lol. I apparently got really fn lost. Hahahah. Thanks for the heads up.

Correct. I did follow up today and read some more sources and it sounds like it’s not quite as simple a story, but the dependence on the US military seems to be a significant issue. I found a better article with a more nuanced take here if you’re interested in that sort of thing: https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/10/f-35-kill-switch-myth/

My understanding is that that plane needs to “call home” daily or it won’t work.

I couldn’t find the article, but found a more recent one that basically agrees with you, except on the whole replacement of the computer systems. That plane took so long to complete and had so many problems, im betting it’s easier to design a new plane rather than reverse engineer this one but that’s neither here nor there.

I think the largest issue is the over-dependence on the US military across the board which as you mentioned, we see playing out in the Ukraine already.

Do you think the EU has what it takes to rebuild fast enough to stand up for themselves alone?

I hope so. I’m not informed enough to know.

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