Because they’re P2P. Just watching is also distribution.

So yes, in reality, they’re sending legal threats asking for viewers to voluntarily pay fines to avoid being dragged to court.

Yep, documentation and a good base level default installation configuration/guide with minimal friction.

I’m perfectly willing to play around once I know at the basic level that the core flow is going to work for me. If it takes me digging through a stack of documentation (especially if it’s bad) to even get something to experiment with on my own system? I won’t bother.

The problem is that there’s a formula.

Games are supposed to progress over time, not just feel like annual copy pastes covered with RNG map spam.

“Don’t buy a game that ships with malware” is a perfectly correct decision, but it doesn’t address the fact that games are shipping with fucking malware.

Yeah, I really have no particular interest in taking my birthday off.

So I’m not big on most of what passes for self improvement material (I think the self help genre is almost entirely trash), but anyone who makes a habit out of trying to make themself better is moving the right way.

It’s worth noting that there will be people who hear the label and react badly, though.

I would argue that the short term pain is worse than hiding it and being with someone who doesn’t know you and can’t understand you, but I can’t promise it won’t be a dealbreaker for someone you really don’t want it to be, either.

The issue is behavior (which is the primary way most of that is diagnosed to begin with).

Acknowledging the behavior and making a deliberate attempt to prevent/improve it is something I would see as a positive sign compared to the behavior without the same steps. Getting a diagnosis (and some type of therapy) are a good thing.

If you consistently treat me badly, the label wouldn’t be why I left. If you make mistakes, but make the regular effort to be aware of them and improve, the label doesn’t matter either.

Because their market share is so bad that they can’t make their money back on their own hardware.

You don’t get a pass on this time until you fix this time by publicly terminating your relationship and paying all the costs you created, including lost business.

By authorizing them as a legal representative, their actions are your actions. Recovering from them is your issue, not the victim’s.

When you hire someone to act on your behalf, all of their actions are your fault. They are you.

I’m not saying this shouldn’t be a huge warning sign not to hire this company to everyone else. I’m saying the only possible way to not be the bad guy would have been a statement “we terminated our arrangement immediately and will pay all of the costs of our mistake”.

They did it on Funko’s behalf, at their direction.

It’s perfectly fine to also blame the partner, but Funko ultimately bears 100% of the responsibility for the actions they instigated.

Yes, it is?

Your rant doesn’t make sense. Asking for suggestions because you’re not OK with being spied on (especially when you’re perfectly willing to absorb the hosting costs yourself or pay for a service that isn’t hostile) is perfectly valid behavior.

I do this too often lol, but I’m going to leave Range by David Epstein here as a decent read on the subject.

He partly frames it as a direct criticism of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, but Gladwell goes pretty overboard on what the research says. (For the actual science, Peak is your alternative. K Anders Ericsson was involved with the actual research and doesn’t take liberties and wildly over-generalize what it says.)

Anyways, the highly specialized and the broad knowledge base viewpoints aren’t incompatible. Both have value.

Beautiful username for this post.

There is no actual logic to having time windows to access confiscated devices that are not ever going to be returned. Anything that’s not technology is completely unaffected by that silliness.

There’s no world where a legally confiscated physical object is held to the same standard.

I don’t see the issue here.

The seizure of the devices happened with appropriate warrants, the actual search was done with appropriate warrants, there’s apparently some weird time limit on the search warrant on a seized device, and some of the maintenance involved took place outside that weird time restriction.

The actual hacking of the device and the actual search of the contents of the device were with a warrant.

People are spending hours on the phone to get basic support or cancel their internet because they just enjoy the interaction so much.

See also Door in the Face, which is very similar and one of the ways anchoring is used in practice.

Apparently I phrased it badly because every vote on it is down lol.

So it’s probably my bad.