The magic power here is read/write media, which most forms of drm (including on physical media) prevent.

Cold storage is fantastic but nothing beats RAID style duplication and fault tolerance. It consumes hardware but it keeps the data. We can keep data alive beyond the lifespan of any given medium, only because we can losslessly copy it.

I file this as prioritizing streamlining the flow of money over meaningful user agency.

Ownership and personal agency are becoming more and more countercultural as people naturally fight against our very real cyberpunk dystopia, even if that’s not how everyone knows to frame it. But people will fight to be people.

The tech industry has been essentially successful in misleading people about the stability and quality tech can offer and conditioning them to understand constant exploitation as the price of digitization. This has made people turn against digitization.

We have trained people to associate digital formats with being exploited.

Besides the aesthetics being far better, why do people pine for media without spending $6.99 per month- er, $9.99 per month- wait, $11.99 per month- hold up, $14.99 per month-

The Quiet Things on Steam Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing togethe...

You can wishlist the game here, if you want to help the devs out: store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/...

RAGE

I will keep re-recommending this every time someone comes up with a new way to rearrange the two logos

Another day, another bundle! ⌛ Stories you'll want to try again and again!

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is now in a bundle with In Stars and Time! Time loops, choices, and trying again and again and again!

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my computer already has age verification. it's me. I'm the age verification. my kids ask me to use the computer. it's locked otherwise.

this is bullshit and we all know it's bullshit. it's capitalist and authoritarian nonsense.

You couldn't put this art in an actual adult game because you'd get blacklisted for having a character with "child-like proportions"

anubis is in fact cringe but for other reasons not stated
the real filter would be to just have the anime catgirl present at all times on the linux kernel website

SUPER DEBT! - The Roguelike where EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY! An unrelenting horror themed bullet-hell roguelike where EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY, and I mean EVERYTHING.

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I won’t allow my history to be erased stash.giovanh.com/Prove%20I%20...

I won’t allow my history to be erased stash.giovanh.com/Prove%20I%20...

Yes but unlike those fake fans out there I have the track

I’m very upset I can’t find the original music video because it was truly insane. It had the plot of the DJ Crazy Timez video and he did some kind of smoothing on his face that made the whole thing look like bad AI in 2018.

I just do not have the time to fall into this rabbit hole before bed but something bad happened here

Okay, so I was going to go with "I would even try being a lesbian" from (gay man?) Ray Isaac's "Prove I Love Ya (Pride Version)", but it looks like he's done a HARD pivot to (unorthodox) Christian pop and totally purged his entire pop music career and all the videos from every record

I really want to find the music video because I remember my first thought being that this guy looks like living AI, and that was in 2018

montana I owe you an apology I wasn't really familiar with your game

please play these

Let them eat block parties In February, at the “Music Industry Summit” — the conclusion to San Francisco Music Week, another Lurie project — I watched as the mayor strode to the stage at the Swedish American Music Hall. There, before an audience of struggling artists, engineers, and small venue staff, he triumphantly reported that the last summer of concerts in Golden Gate Park resulted in “$150 million worth of economic impact,” and that, according to new data, “our independent music venues generate $1.4 billion in economic impact annually.” Lurie paused for applause. “That’s because of all of you in this room.” We clapped dutifully, but the people in that room did not need to be reassured that they had contributed to $1.4 billion in “economic impact.” They would have preferred to hear that any of their favorite clubs might exist next year. The people in that room could use health insurance — and they might be able to afford it if Lurie’s billionaire buddies were taxed appropriately; say, with a one-time 5% excise tax on net worth exceeding $1 billion to save Medi-Cal. But hey, that sentiment doesn’t make for great social media content.

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"Your Windows update is complete. See 5 of the latest features"

The first new feature: "the big clock is back"

MICROSOFT:

WE UPDATED WINDOWS! Big update, a HUGE deal. Some absolutely massive changes coming your way, this is going to fundamentally change everything you think you know about computers.

Let's get into it with our first major feature of this new incredible toolset. Hope you're sitting down:

I have decided to become one of those open source guys motivated by hate

i was a teenage exocolonist is a game i love soooo much. this bundle is the "Stories You'll Want to Try Again and Again" bundle, but really it's the "timeloops make you gay" bundle

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same, girl

anthropic "service animal" tier where instead of servers claude ferrets each packet to its destination manually