If there is DRM, you’re only renting it. You may be renting it until further notice for a one-off payment, but your lease could be unilaterally revoked at any time. The supplier framing your lease as a purchase is at the very least being misleading.
Add some curry powder and bean sprouts and you’re halfway to Singapore noodles
In Germany, this could be a success
With some VPNs (Mullvad and NordVPN to name two) you can use your own clients by downloading lists of VPN relays and whatever authentication credentials the protocol uses. Though if you use the official client, it often has options beyond the protocol, such as selecting multiple hops (i.e. entering at one relay and exiting from another), disguising your traffic as another protocol (useful if you’re somewhere where VPN traffic is blocked) or padding traffic to a constant size to prevent profiling (i.e. by comparing to known video streams).
I could have done with that when Disco Elysium was on sale.
Wait for someone to crack the bootloader and then someone to get a Linux/BSD working on it and/or code up a bare-metal web view/SDL/uxn/PICO-8 that runs on it. That way, when the App Store stops supporting OS versions that run on it, it can still be reused as generic hardware.
Cooper Black’s cool, right?
Except that you’re not entering code. You’re not even mapping out algorithms or data structures or reasoning about tradeoffs, as that’s for dirty-handed peasants. You’re constantly supervising and arguing with an army of industrious yet dim-witted sorcerers’ apprentices. Your voice is a lump hammer that you’re trying to hammer a large structure you’re above needing to understand into the shape it’s meant to be in, with each blow moving a lump randomly, and your mental capacity is fully occupied with forming and refining folk theories about how the mechanised idiots you command actually think.
Firefox is fashtech now?
IIRC, an ultra-orthodox Jewish passenger tried something similar on an El Al flight a few years ago, and made the news.
* sad kiwi noises *
We’re living in a golden age of vibe-coded fairy-gifts, marvels appear hourly which are not the product of any human mind. They may do more or less what’s promised, though may blow up in weird and random ways or have stupid bugs, inefficiencies or security holes that no thinking author would have signed off on. Eventually, like all fairy gold, they turn to straw: if they don’t fall apart under use, there’s no way to update or improve a dense blob of LLM-extruded code when specs or requirements change, so you just throw when away and implore the LLM fae to send a new one.
You could do that, though unless you have a bunch of Windows 98 PCs you wish to use the official client software on, you may as well host an XMPP server instead. It’s open, actively being developed, and while the majority of people haven’t heard of it, this is also the case with AIM these days (at best, middle-aged people will have memories of using it when they were teenagers, and be surprised that it still sort of exists).
It’s the Terrorist Special Olympics all over again
They don’t have raccoons or baby alligators in Thailand, it seems
They’re two completely different species. The one with the O is North American, and the other is Australian. They only got the same name because people are lazy.
Looks like AI slop to me.
Dad picked it up after retiring at the end of a long career. Shooting zombies sounded more fun than fishing.
Are they going to upgrade the name as well?