eurodyne

An incredible Steam summer sale for the GOTY edition with all the DLCs. When fallout 4 first came out, it was pretty buggy, so regular updates for both the main game and all the DLC‘s was pretty crucial in the early years. I got sick of having to deal without them.

I miss shareware demos

I spent a good 8000 hours playing Fallout 4 before I bought it. Might have been the 5th Anniversary sale?

Also, it’s one of the few games I’ve ever actually paid for.

Unless it’s an ad, of course

By this logic, Windows is also a piracy tool. Ban that please.

I didn’t say it could. In fact, I really hope it can’t, lol.

I don’t see the difference between the two things you just described, no… except for the circuitousness of the path of the profit/value generation. The end result is the same.

But the argument you’re making also makes a huge amount of assumptions about the individual versus about engagement in piracy by society in general. On the micro scale versus the macro scale. Is piracy of a particular piece of media ethical as an individual versus is piracy of a particular piece of media ethical at scale. The crux of your argument seems to be the value generation of “word-of-mouth“. So now you’re just arguing a matter of degrees and pedagogy.

So you’re not really arguing about capitalism or piracy at all, now you’re arguing about passing undeserved value, and the methods by which that is done and how piracy is being co-opted via capitalism.

And what this whole argument really is about is whether or not you can separate the art from the artist and still appreciate a piece of work, even though you find the artist repulsive. And none of this has to do with piracy at all, but whether you can find a way to consume an artist work without endorsing the artist. where piracy comes into the conversation is whether or not that is an acceptable means to that end, and people will always disagree on that.

The whole “capitalism” chestnut isn’t a means to untangle that because piracy is, as I’ve said, mostly anti-capitalism, and isn’t self reliant on capitalism, so the logic of that argument doesn’t really work out. It’s mostly down to personal opinion, and there really isn’t any logic to that at all.

Piracy is anti-capitalism. And while it may cost you something to send a file over the Internet, it doesn’t necessarily cost me anything. And if capitalism is producing something and selling it for a profit, piracy is the opposite of that: taking a copy for free, regardless of the method. Thus: anti-capitalism

Just because of the method of piracy you happen to choose may cost you money doesn’t change those underlying facts. especially because it is perfectly possible to engage in piracy without engaging in capitalism whatsoever. just because in the example you have cited, you have chosen to commingle the two does not mean they cannot be mutually exclusive.

Not only is what you said definitely not true for a lot of different reasons, but if you’re gonna be this condescending, I don’t see why I should continue having a conversation with you.

Capitalism is going to happen regardless of piracy. HBO is going to make the show regardless of how many people pirate it.

HBO doesn’t need to know who downloaded, just how much people downloaded.

They don’t need to know either of those things

But privacy [sic] doesn’t cancel capitalism.

It kinda does, but that’s not really the point

There’s a bunch of flaws in your logic here, not the least of which is:

There is no ethical Harry Potter consumption within capitalism.

Piracy isn’t capitalism

Edit: let me be more clear–

You’re trying to resolve one ethical dilemma with another unresolved ethical dilemma: You’re trying to resolve: “Can one appreciate an artist’s work while acknowledging that the artist is detestable?” with the same logic as “Is digital piracy an ethical workaround to media capitalism?” and combine the two arguments into one solution: “Is it ethical to pirate Harry Potter media from HBO, even though I find both Rowling, HBO, and capitalism detestable?”

It’s like asking, “As a strict environmentalist, is it ethical to drive my EV to the market if I know I had to charge it from an energy grid powered by coal plant (that I had no choice but to use)?” Because no matter how much personal opinion and moral relativism enters the ethical calculus, there’s a logical breakdown at the crosspoint of systemics, when individual participation merges into participation at scale, how much your choice is actually a choice at all, how much your choice would make any difference, and on and on…

but before all of that, it doesn’t make any logical sense to even go down that path since trying to resolve one ethical dilemma with another - especially expecting a black-and-white answer - is just a bit silly.

Two other rather prophetic books from the mid-90s:

• (1995) - Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

• (1999) - Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say

Both books by Douglas Rushkoff, are basically a blueprint for how digital media and the Internet have been used to manipulate society and governments for the last 30 years.

My Plex server is running Fedora on a Sandy Bridge Intel chip. Would you like some benchmarks from that? Warning: it may catch fire… Lol.

Woohoo! Let’s go M4!

lol IKR?

Chrome? Is that some sort of computer program? I think I remember hearing about that a decade or two ago…

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who’s ever used it

Well, since this extension is also on GitHub, I can try to sync it up that way, and then do a little editing to try to get it to work.

Thanks for the tip!

Shows up as “unsupported” and doesn’t seem to work for me on gnome 50 😔

Every extension that did the whole “free-floating/pill-shaped” COSMIC-style top panel (and there was a number of them) — not a single one got updated for gnome 50.

Fortunately, gnome 51 will support top panel transparency, just like macOS. If I can’t make it look the way I want, at least I can just not look at it at all.

Asahi Linux

Oh, that’s nice

What extension gets you that rounded top panel and dock?