I know its not so easy but I wish people would just stop working for these shitty companies under abusive conditions. I understand people have to eat but there’s gotta be something that can be done.

Interesting, thank you for sharing. I’ll have to read more about how things changed over time.

I dont order anything, so I dont worry about porch pirates, has nothing to do with “blessings” whatever that refers to.

I dont like walking down the sidewalk and realizing I’m being filmed from someone’s doorstep, its unnecessary and invasive. I dont want people around me to feel like that, and all I would get by having cameras is the opportunity to prosecute someone from my community for a petty crime. Not interested in any of that.

Those were pre-installed on end user devices and were popular in workplaces? If you have any material to share I could read about that time period that would be helpful as well.

Not concerned about porch pirates at all, people shouldnt order stuff like this.

Thats fair, I know my point of view is on the more extreme end.

Maybe there’s a lot of rich kids out there who’s parents say yes to any request. I can’t imagine there are single player purchase “whales” like in multiplayer games.

Never said it would protect your shit, just that it likely would be better in the long run for everyone involved. Its not an easy problem to solve but I dont think we need to treat people poorly because of it. I understand if its just not possible to assume the financial risk though.

What was the other choice back then? I dont recall microsoft ever needing to compete for end users. Even now they barely have to put in an effort and are the most popular OS.

And then they have the balls to sell items in game that speed up the gameplay.

Neighbors can be people you dont well, you should still trust them anyways, because you’d want them to treat you the same.

If you have drug addicts regularly causing you problems, might do you some good to befriend them in some way or help them out, instead of secure your shit and avoid them more. They aren’t any different than you are.

To be honest china is more likely to come to their defense than american police are.

Hard agree. What does a video doorbell connected to the internet solve? I’m concerned that people dont trust their neighbors to this extent. Sort of a canary in the coal mine type thing.

This is the choice if you want to buy the equipment and it works out of the box. Its cheaper if you want to sort of build your own setup but requires more maintenance and setup.

Microsoft isn’t popular by choice. They can’t force people into shitty ecosystems if they have no reason to choose it to begin with. Microsoft was the only choice for decades, and will go down as the golden example of business monopoly.

Apple, amazon, google, all have their claws deeper in people because they make products people choose to use. They actually like the products, so the companies can slowly enshittify them and keep their users.

I think you should be good for the most part then! I know pcvr works with linux now too but it depends what distribution you use for how difficult it is to setup.

I imagine to some its sort of like gambling? Hard to say.

Well you both would be making assumptions about people wouldnt you?

Keep in mind quite a lot of online games have recently banned linux players, in case there’s an important game for you like that.

Solid.