Steam, too. It was originally unpopular DRM for Half-Life 2. It had a broken offline mode that could only be selected when already online. It had no meaningful customer service and people permanently lost their accounts with no avenue for appeal (and probably no human even involved).
Prisoners: “We’re being sexually abused.”
IOF: “Of course we sexually abuse prisoners, want to see the videos?”
Israelis: “We’ll shut down the country to protest our rights to sexually abuse prisoners.”
Pretty much the only people on the planet that pretend to not know this are the ones writing the blank checks to arms manufacturers.
Realistically, I don’t think there’s much online browsing you can do with 2GB of RAM. The websites themselves will be as much of a bottleneck as the browser.
What a terribly written article.
So it’s bricking an external piece of cheating hardware and not users’ actual PCs, or…?
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Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.
Kobo is also really easy to sideload books on to, so you can, you know, just get them from wherever…
By allowing oligarchs to continue owning the means of production (and wealth, control of the state, etc.), whereas workers will have lost labor to withhold.
The oligarchs will give us just enough UBI to not riot. It’s going to be used as a bribe to keep them in power. That’s my issue with calls for UBI; they permanently entrench class dynamics. Our only (peaceful) leverage as workers to improve our conditions is to withhold our labor. If AI actually succeeds in mass unemployment, we lose that and we’ll be forever at their mercy.
Hot take, but this whole AI thing kinda sucks.