It’s about as dangerous as using IE in the old days, or Edge in administrator mode.

That doesn’t account for the frustration and confusion, the time wasted troubleshooting, the loss of property and time spent replacing it, the consumer trust violations, and the destruction of private property. They should face criminal charges for destruction of private property. By “they” I mean the executives who created and mandated this idea. Then they should be required to pay pain and suffering to each affected user at a rate of $100 per hour, with 5-10 hours assumed, and then have to replace the controllers they broke. Not give money to replace them, they should be required to immediately ship a new controller of the same type that they broke. Anything else is just lip-service, and a nice check for some random law firm.

It’s not even that. That’s like a rounding error for them. They won’t even notice.

Cancel and demand a refund. Also tell them that they’re poop faces and have poop for faces.

I have tried to out-crazy them, but crazy has gone beyond my ability in the last few years.

8 was a tragedy of Titanic proportions.

That all sounds fun to me except for the wet and windy part.

Which turns into coffee grounds when it hits the bed?

The best place to start is talking to people you know and checking if they have the in with any good jobs. Then if that doesn’t work, apply directly for jobs you find by checking with individual companies, ideally speaking with the hiring manager first. Jobs listed on job boards are really difficult to get. You’re up against everyone, and they have filters that accidentally discard a lot of qualified candidates.

Why would a Borg need such perfect breasts? Not that I’m complaining…

I don’t want to change anyone’s mind anymore. I’m so tired of trying. I just want them to STFU and believe their wacko shit in private like the good old days.

I had to cut it out of my life in 2020. I was so stressed out that my memory was bad, I wasn’t eating, and I was sleeping like four hours max per night. I have seen no reason to add it back. If something important happens, it makes its way into everything, so I find out. I don’t need to know every little stupid thing some stupid person says on Twitter 50 times a day, or every time some politician makes some terrible decision that hurts Americans. Neither of those things are news, they’re business as usual, but they’re treated as breaking news by people and news organizations. I’m much happier under my rock.

Since when do you need to be sober for IT work? I figured you are a doctor or something.

Idk if it’s just because I have completely removed myself from the news cycle, but I haven’t heard anything about NYE this year, not even from friends and family on Facebook. I think everyone is just like “meh”.

Gosh dang it. I’m not ready for a whole new year. I was just getting used to this one.

I guess I like prehistoric the best from an artistic perspective, but none of them effectively convey the size and power of the balrog.

There’s a huge difference though with physical media. Yeah, you don’t own the movie, but you own the DVD that it’s stored on. They’re not going to come into your house and take the DVD back. Once you have it, it’s yours forever. When you “buy” something hosted on a corporate server, you can lose it if they don’t want to host it anymore, as evidenced by this Sony thing, or if they go out of business.

It’s not nebulous. You cannot own digital entertainment unless it is on physical media. You are buying a license to be able to view it whenever you want, as long as they have it available, and don’t change their terms of service. They say in their terms of service that they can change it whenever they want. There’s nothing we can do about it except not buy it in the first place. Their asses are covered quite well with that 60 page document they make you accept. They had a team of high powered lawyers write that thing, knowing that most people will never read it. They conditioned people to accepting the ToS without reading it by pushing ToS acceptance on meaningless things in the early days of software. Everyone became accustomed to just clicking okay, but now it actually does matter, and we still just click okay.

This one is easy to answer. With one word. “YES”

Gary Larson certainly was.