What’s not true? That you represent most pirates? I don’t think you do, and I don’t think a sample size of 1 is indicative of anything.

I would also argue that pirating games to see if they are good, just further proves that you “would never have bought the product in the first place.”

Obviously there is some grey area here though, because one of us seems to be accounting for people that have ever played the game before, and the other is not. Buying sight-unseen vs pirating and THEN buying if it’s good, is of course two different things, the latter of which I was not accounting for in my definition of “pirate”.

I ask them. And I feel the same way myself

I agree, I think Adobe/MS have even said in the past that they would prefer people steal their software if the alternative means they would use a competitor instead.

except most pirates would never have bought the product in the first place… so is it really a loss for the company?

My understanding is that he was not “charged with terrorism”, but NY has a provision where they can use terrorist-like criteria as one of the ways a person can be charged with first-degree murder instead of something lesser.

If like me you were wondering if MS actually provided their own parsers for their Office file formats… they did not.

It seems to just be a bunch of random pyxyz 3rd-party support libraries all mashed together.

It’s usually a bad idea to connect to production servers to run one-off or maintenance commands

Bruh, I dev in prod

if only they were easier to use in non-KDE projects and didn’t have complex interdependencies on each other

Probably because there are many laptops where such cables do not work. I went through 4 different brands before I found one that worked on my macbook.

I think what ends up happening though is the number of people that actually end up seeing your content is so small it’s kinda pointless.

Seems like it becomes a situation of “which wind would you like to piss into.”

Sample size of 1 is not indicative of anything.

I think it greatly depends on where you live.

Post your location and I’m sure people will be quick to point out how overtly racist your area is, which is probably why people are too afraid to speak out.

Yes they have comparable CPUs from Zhaoxin, which is joint owned by VIA and Chinese government.

Russia also has Baikal.

They’re European, they don’t understand concepts like free speech, asset forfeiture or flexible job titles.

/s

And they’re arguably wrong a LOT. Not only that but everything is always black and white with them, there is no grey area or different perspectives possible.

As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.

Make no mistake though, their dogmatic, cosmically inflated, egotistical god complex is visible from space.

As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.

I think you’re both right. I think the non-stupid people with successful self-developed systems simply aren’t talked about, because they don’t get caught, because they’re not stupid.

Yea and if a nation-state knows your phone number, they can track your exact whereabouts in real-time. Let’s not pretend like we know better than them about what information matters :)

have you seen how people decide their vote?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI&t=2m22s