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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You can get alarms that you place under the mattress and they shake the entire bed

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She's the kind of person to kill two people in a car accident and then do a runner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Minetest. The game is way more open and customisable, and you can add in whatever rulesets you like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And how do they make their money?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Because hosting shit yourself isn't free, and most people aren't up for taking financial losses for their projects.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

To be more specific, you can, it's just an esoteric piece of shit mechanism that's way more complicated than it needs to be.

https://framedsc.com/GeneralGuides/steam_update_guide.htm

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232095313

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I know right?! I thought it would be a favourite!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

and the government would have to explain precisely why they decided to ban all Google services over a song about freedom.

They wouldn't explain shit. This is an authoritarian government we're talking about; they have near total control of what information gets to their populace.

More likely they'd just accuse Google of supporting terrorism, and make a show of raiding their offices and jailing their local executives.

I don’t think the people in charge would last long if that happened, considering how integral Google’s services are to many people’s lives.

This is China we're talking about. Chinese equivalents to nearly every big tech service are more than present and accounted for, even often preferred by the local populace. Hong Kong is a little different, but the CCP still exerts near total control there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Isn't that just execution by another name?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Eh, replace death with life-without-parole imprisonment and I'm onboard.

If you think about it, LWP is a far worse fate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (7 children)

It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.

Mind you, I wish we were that level of strict when it came to our data privacy laws.

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