relativestranger

@relativestranger@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  just because one person you believe to be the keepers of the code says it’s ok. doesn’t mean it’s the correct person or all the persons permission is needed from, and modifying or distributing the code yourself is still quite risky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  reads like an old copypasta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the same tool that can… uh… ‘remove the waterMark’… yea, that’s it. can Also help keep your soon-to-be-abandoned windowS updated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i have a trial to cancel soon. betcha it’s still faster and easier to ask ddg ‘how to cancel prime’ than it is to find it solely via clicks on azn’s own site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they priced the new one too high, so now they’re raising the old one up so people (especially newcomers to the platform) will think it’s not so bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it wasn’t a terrible idea, just the implementations of it–in the efforts to extract maximum profits.