Any tips on finding someone who does component level repair? I have an old-ish laptop (7 years?) and the only issue is the USB C charger seems to be losing connection. If I flip the charger it works fine, so I think the solder just needs to be reflowed.

I think it would take an experienced person <30 min to fix. It’s almost not worth it though since it’s so old, but I’d be willing to pay $50-100 if it makes charging work better.

That’s a lot more than wallowing in despair will get you.

But yeah, don’t have kids if you’re depressed, they’ll just add a bunch more obligations and expenses, which will deepen whatever problems you have. Do have kids if you find happiness in seeing others succeed through your mentorship.

Here’s the interpretation by the US copyright office in their FAQ:

Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution.

The enumerated rights of copyright owners are detailed in Title 17, section 106, with exceptions (e.g. fair use) described through section 122. The relevant portion is:

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

My understanding is that the copyright office is using 1&3 in their interpretation. So my understanding is that Meta is violating copyright by downloading copies of copyrighted work if their use doesn’t fall under the fair use claims.

And what’s with those legs on SMB2? He’s clearly on some kind of drugs.

Ah, makes sense. If you attend public school for even just a week at anything from 4th grade and up, you’ll know what sex is.

I highly doubt the consequences of Dennis Richie not existing. Yes, his work was foundational, but he didn’t do it on his own, and if he wasn’t around, someone else would’ve filled in.

The same is true for Steve Jobs. In fact, most of his contribution was being a jerk to people so his ideas won. He had a clear vision, but his internal implementation was… iffy.

Well, they’re often cheaper and easier to rip. I ha e a bluray reader w/ Libredrive flashed, but not everyone has that.

It could be a good one, you don’t know the details.

Exactly. That will have to be proved in court, and just making something available for anyone to use as they please is not “working with Russian hackers.” They would need to prove actual collusion to make the malware-ridden version more accessible.

Downloading is absolutely illegal, it’s just not really enforced because you need to prove criminal intent. You’re still accessing copyrighted material without a license, which is a copyright violation.

Distribution has much higher penalties and is more likely to push people to buying (harder to find copies = potentially more legal sales), so that’s where enforcement is focused.

That depends, is the pedophile a high profile person or a creepy poor person?

on paper

It’s making them less rich only if you assume pirated copies would’ve been sales. That’s generally not the case, and piracy can often increase sales by pirates recommending things to people who will actually buy.

With libredrive flashed on your player. Let the player decrypt for you, and then copy the decrypted stream, no need to break any encryption…

Watch him as he goes.

That’s really too bad, and really highlights the importance of being upfront about expectations.

Wait, so her saying what you both already wanted somehow made things worse? That doesn’t make sense, surely a “Perfect! I don’t want romance to get in the way of the friendship we have.” would’ve kept things as they were?

Making it clear what the boundaries of the relationship are should make things better, not worse.

Exactly what I’m trying to teach my kids.

When playing with people, the goal is for them to want to play with you again, not just to win. Put the worst people on your team and teach them to be better, and go after the better players on the other team, leaving the worse players to your teammates. Or as you said, goof off a bit, or give yourself handicaps (e.g. have to “tag up” to your base between kills, can only use one weapon, etc).

If everyone goes home happy, then it’s a success. Leave the fierce competition for tournaments.

no one ever explained to her what sex actually is.

I have a hard time believing this. 10s on any porn site would make that connection clear, and you could ask pretty much any 12yo and they’ll know what sex is mechanically, even if they’ve never looked at porn or had a sex ed class.

Regardless, I agree wholeheartedly that we need better sex ed and access to contraception and protection against STDs. People, especially kids, are really good at making justifications and convincing themselves they what they want to do isn’t technically the thing they’re not supposed to do.

E.g.: under the new guidelines by Mozilla you’re not allowed to bookmark pornhub

I’m gonna need some evidence for that.

The only thing that’s “worse” about Firefox’s TOS IMO is that it gives them the right to “sell” your data, which seems to mostly apply to their business deals with advertisers (e.g. Google search and Pocket). Google doesn’t need that because they are the advertiser.

With Firefox, you can disable Pocket and change the search engine and you’re probably good. With chrome, you can’t really get away from it, especially since you can’t install an effective ad blocker anymore.

Brave’s TOS are better, but I only use them as a backup because I believe strongly in alternative rendering engines. For that reason I still recommend Firefox, though with an asterisk that they should consider a fork if they don’t want to disable defaults.

Oh, absolutely. I tell everyone to not have kids, knowing that those who should have kids will just ignore me and have them anyway.

My point is just that a lot of motivation in my life comes from my obligations for my kids. It’s similar to having pets, but a lot more extreme.