There was criminal colonies all over the British empire

A lot of rich Brits also colonised Australia after the basic infrastructure was there

I think it’s like most things, 1% are loud and the rest will accept it

They don’t license out their operating system to other companies or ever claimed it was open

They may be guilty of similar things, but not quite the same

Thought they were distinct, never mind me then

Wouldn’t that be tortoise crossing?

I haven’t had an optical drive in any computer or console or other device for many years at this point

I can understand the reasoning why people think this is a bad thing but it seems this is just where things were going anyway, vote with your wallet I guess

Personally I enjoyed the fact that for the casual consumer cheap windows laptops I would need to run malware scanners on for everyone I know were effectively replaced by iPads and iPhones

The moment other stores are introduced we will go back to the same nonsense, the older open options are still available, why isn’t that enough choice?

I don’t have that either

It’s a spectrum, but I seem to be on the see nothing in my mind end

I’ll always remember going to a rise against concert and scalpers outside were saying “tickets for rise against the machine”, they have no idea what they are selling

Well I got aphantasia, so I’ll stick with tv and films thanks

My current role gave me an ultra wide and a second monitor mounted vertically

Almost immediately turned off the second monitor, and the ultrawide I maintain my terminal in a more standard widescreen area

I really hate distractions outside my field of view

UK, a few chains tried it here but I imagine it was enough to drive people away so you don’t see it much anymore

I went to the US in 2024 and it was outrageous, every card terminal asked for it

I was under the impression it was just for sit down meals and not stuff like Starbucks or non food related things

I guess the point is that if you don’t have the disc then they can take it away from you

The way I see it is this has enabled companies to upgrade and rerelease games and keep them operational on newer hardware

They don’t know that yet, it’s like 4 months away from release

I have workmates who desperately try and make friends with people at work, I need to socialise with different people outside work

Would it be better if it was on a piece of cardboard with the code behind a scratch off section?

I’m sure they will survive

Guess we will see if GTA6 online fails due to not being in the unreal ecosystem

Will have to see where it goes

They seemed to have pretty good evidence of people breaking contracts first time around

Even the people making YouTube videos about it kind of disappeared as soon as the evidence came out