Hatred of Oracle predates “cancelling” by decades. Oracle is and has always been one of, if not the most disgusting and vicious companies in tech. They kill everything they touch.
If you need a political component, then Oracle = Larry Ellison, but Oracle hate predates and supercedes the American political slide into fascism.
MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.
I agree for “free to play” games, but not for the store. The idea is that if you use their store you might convert to a customer or start playing their “free to play” games like Fortnite. If you never do, then you are nothing but a cost center. The idea of “we have tons of customers” doesn’t really track either because articles like the one posted here shine the light on how non-sensical their giveaways are.
Another angle could be to get you into their store everytime you want to play your giveaway game. Maybe that way they can hook you with something else. That should not be a problem if you use apps.like Heroic Game Launcher and bypass the Epic app altogether to play your games.
Cool beans. Best of luck to you and your endeavors. Just don’t ask or incite others to do what you will not.
Run XP on a VM? Zunes were great.
Do you really believe that the sight of OP is terrifying enough to sow fear into the hearts of ex-military, likely war criminal, murderous mercenaries looking for an excuse to hurt people?
The sudden increase of big talk and calls for violence on Lemmy in the past few weeks is beyond cringey and is no better than the MAGA fucks on Xitter and Truth cosplaying as “Meal Team Six”. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want to be a “martyr for the cause” by taking out some billionaire or fascist, that’s your choice. Buy a rifle, a pistol, and a knife and go train. Just don’t get on the Internet and start trying to convince others to do what you are incapable or unwilling to do.
CONTEXT: I used to live in Fort Walton Beach, home of disproportionate number of “private security” guys. I have been part of the tech sector at the executive level for many years, and I currently live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; home of an unusually high number of billionaires. I have met a lot of private security guys on the job or at the bar. Do not confuse them with rent-a-cops.
What about their private security?
That logic only works if said users transition into paying customers. Epic wants you to either buy games from them or get hooked intonone of their “free” games like Fortnite. They do not profit at all by people redeeming and playing giveaways.
If you buy games from Epic you give Epic your money. If you redeem free games from Epic, you support the devs and cost Epic money. Win/Win.
As for Prime, if you have to pay for Prime for other reasons, you might as well as expensive a customer as possible. If you don’t have to have Prime, then I agree. Avoid it and Bezos can rot.
It bored me too and it was my first Civ. Which one do you recommend for a first timer? I also have a bunch of Anno and Tropico I got free or near free, so any recommendation for the genre would be appreciated.
The US could have negotiated and easily gotten that base at any point. The only reason to take this loud and aggressive tact is to make noise and distract.
They have no intention of taking over Greenland. It’s all bullshit to distract from the Epstein files, and it worked.
I didn’t want to assume requirements and OP specifically asked for no wifi/BT. If this is for a secure system then maybe a software disable might not be sufficient.
I am having an impossible time finding “N” (network) models in most consumer stores. It seems that they have all been replaced by “W” (wireless) models.
Do you mean hijacking? If so, any IOT device controlled via a webservice is very susceptible to lackluster security at the manufacturer level. If anyone is within signal range of your device, they can also hija it.
Do you mean being harmed in any way by the manufacturer? They are using the devices to collect and sell any and all possible data they can collect about you.
This community is about discussion about the Fediverse. This is equivalent to you posting this in a sub about PC repair or plumbing.
Ooof! You are absolutely right. Hopefully they use dedicated e-mail and contact information for their business.
Nutanix…oof. I deal with them every day. It isn’t their fault their shit can’t handle what we do, but it is their sales folk that constantly lie and misrepresent.
Wanna know one of rhe big reasons people hate Oracle so much? It’s their sales guys. They are awful. If that guy went from Oracle to Nutanix, that tells me that I cannot trust a single syllable out of their mouth.