Digital media means that there is an ongoing service behind it.

I could download my file and be done with it. If I throw away or damage my super fragile bluray I’m not entitled to a new copy. I don’t even need to be able to redownload (although it’s a nice service). It means there is an ongoing service behind it because they decide it and because they are afraid I will share with my friends - which is about as difficult as finding the media elsewhere online.

With no more cash coming in, the service goes bankrupt.

Same issue with physical media. Suddenly your expensive factory is idle, your employees don’t produce anything. We still get to buy movies and not rent them perpetually.

Why I don’t get is why they fight so hard to promote piracy though. It’s not enough that it’s free, it also has to be easier?

Nah. But attacking Jews who have no part in the genocide merely because they are Jews is.

Denmark. I bought something from the US. About 300 DKK. I had to pay for shipping. About 300 DKK. I had to pay the toll. I had to pay a mandatory 120 DKK fee for the postal service to charge the toll. I had to pay taxes on the fee. I had to pay taxes on the purchase. I had to pay taxes on the shipping.

In the end I paid about 1000 DKK for a 300 DKK package.

I have a video game joke. It’s not done yet, but I’ll tell you anyway. The punchline will cost you extra though.

Not sure if lemme.ee has the same ridiculous filter as lemmy.ms lemmy.ml or if some kind of slur starting with r was employed. I assume it’s the former, but I don’t think other instances have that filter on…

Who would have thought that a box of all things would be a useful cat repellant.

I’m a software engineer too. I’ll tell you what changed. I have a kid. Daycare was shut down, but since both my wife and I can work from home we were expected to do just that. We got to spend a lot of time with the then two year old, but hardly saw each other except for the back of the head because one of us was always working. What was your corona project? Surviving, that’s what!

Oh, he’ll just change the unit test if it fails.

An AI tool was used to add an extra layer to the editing process for this story.

For crying out loud, stop that!

I don’t. Not much less either, I don’t interact much with social media. Not that I don’t want to, but I rarely have anything of worth to contribute. To make matters worse, Lemmy is mostly missing the communities that I’m interested in, of if they’re there, they have little engagement. On reddit it was a little better, and Facebook is just insane in comparison.

But mostly I don’t have anything to say, and if I do it’s mostly stupid. My primary means of helping Lemmy is to not interact (much).

So not Signal, or…?

On second thought, nevrmind.

And OIL!

But then how will I avoid breaking rules in the future?

That won’t be an issue.

My only argument I can come up with is that other people have friends, so $25 will be less than going to the cinema because they don’t have to pay that price for each person watching. It’s still ridiculously expensive though.

Denmark just got all houses reevaluated by the government and this actually fits right in!

They’ll offer 7 years, and a new phone if you use it for the duration. Then after two years they’ll go “nah, never mind” and drop it altogether.

I don’t think Musk qualifies, being South African though.

Or a HURD.