Hey, this isn't where I parked my car.
nik282000
joined 2 years ago
They could easily set up a permanent library of ALL previous titles for sale along with emulators for each new console they release. Nintendo could re-sell you every game they have ever made every time they drop new hardware, but nope, just a big fuck you.
Someone set up us the bomb!
I was about 16 and made a Slax CD to get around my schools locked down WinNT/XP installs. After school I ran Ubuntu on an '06 Acer laptop for a while but later switched to W7 for gaming. When W10 launched with ads in the start menu I moved to Debian and have been totally happy since then.
Looks like you solved it but I moved from Google DNS to Namecheap and it works well. I use multiple subdomains and certbot without issue.
As of W10 I stopped trusting Windows. Having ads bundled into a >$200 OS shows me that being an OS is no longer the primary goal.
Previous to that I had been using Debian as a media server so the switch was pretty painless. I can play 90% of my Steam library on Linux, edit photos, edit videos, stream, browse, and do literally everything I used to do on Windows.
If you use strong passwords and keep an eye on your logs you are no less safe than any other public facing entity. I've had a bunch of services exposed since 2020 so far no one has even bothered to brute the basic auth on Apache (though bot nets take a run at SSH a few times a year).
I missed the first September but previous to the iPhone a large part of the web was individual forums/message boards, personally operated websites. Almost everyone online was there to talk to other people who share the same niche interests, or to share their hobbies on a dedicated website or their own personal site.
iPhones totally murdered most of that because phones encourage consumption over participation just by their nature, business caught on that there were millions of new users who did not know what they wanted and everything got turned into a revenue generation machine. Endless scrolling through formulaic content interspersed with ads.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
The last Eternal September was June of 2007. The iPhone gave an internet connection to users not because they wanted one and were interested in participating and contributing, but as an app. A way to passively consume online content for quick entertainment. Ever since then everything has been progressively forced towards app format, so that 99% of users don't ever meaningfully contribute in anyway. Upvote, downvote, "this" in the comments and then off to the next app.
You know this is gonna be a thing now. Like rule 34.5, if you can think it, there will be a Kickstarter of it.
There are no ethical billionaires. It is not possible to obtain that kind of economic power without consciously exploiting others.