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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Music from Microsoft when they had the store and original DRM. They later shut it down and on newer Windows had no way to restore your DRM keys, so the music was useless/locked. Their support basically said "oh well". Eventually I got around the DRM by an ancient version of Roxio CD burner, somehow because it came out before MS DRM it just read the track and burned it to CD, there was no DRM checking I guess

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

My wife has been sick with a persistent respiratory infection for six weeks. I have a shoulder injury. We haven't been staying on top of the cleaning. We finally admitted that the house smells like one of those caves you age cheese in, and booked a cleaner to put it back in good shape so we can just maintain it going forwards.

Last night, at my wife's insistence, we tidied the house from top to bottom and wiped down the flat surfaces so the cleaner wouldn't arrive to a messy house. ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ

In her defence, she kinda saw the irony of it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Kerbal Space Program 2 as an Early Access game on Steam. Take Two poached developers those that worked on KSP 1 and then laid off the entirety of Intercept Games, the studio that they made for KSP 2. Even though it's not being worked on anymore, you can still get it on Steam for an eye-watering โ‚ฌ50, which was exactly what I paid (before the layoff happened, on day 2 of Early Access). This was after I had great experiences with other Early Access games like ULTRAKILL and Satifactory, so I thought that a company like Take Two wouldn't fuck the pooch that hard. It's playable, the graphics are neat, the music is very nice, and they did manage to add the science mode before it all went to shit, but I'm sad that the promised two other solar systems, planet colonization, resource extraction, automation and multiplayer will probably never be added. That is, unless someone else buys up the project and actually finishes it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I'm a driver I'm a winner, things are gonna change I can feel it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, every driver says that! I'll believe it when I see it! That's the same thing my video driver said.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Song lyrics, youngster.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I was young and didn't know how to say no....

Timeshare.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Did you get the TV at least?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Hmmm. I wouldn't exactly call it a waste of money (yet) but my current smartwatch. It's not bad or anything it's just.. not that useful. The fact that I have to charge it often, doesn't make it better

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I bought a smart watch and found it collecting dust. My new job is strongly against being on your phone while at work. Nothing against earbuds and a watch however. Now it takes me twice as long to send a text via my watch.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I feel exactly the same. I bought mine mostly for hiking and the battery isn't even lasting a whole hike. No tracking or anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I love my smartwatch, it usually holds charge for an entire day even with the screen on all the time. I think they stopped making them though, it is a Fossil smartwatch. I also like that it just looks like a normal watch at first glance.

By contrast, I have bought a tablet twice thinking I would love to have one, and then NEVER know what the hell to do with it. My phone is easier to carry around. :/

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