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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I like that analysis, thank you.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

You love to see it. It's wild how outright piracy has become a normal tool of international diplomacy.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

I am three liberals in a trench coat and I'm ready to vote right now.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

We're a citations-needed Citations Needed citations-needed fan forum.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

It's true. I am the only true leftist in this miserable sea of liberalism.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

We're like Bane "The Venom is the only thing keeping him alive" levels of irony poisoned here. Add almost 7 years of in-jokes, memes, obscure conspiracy theories, and thousands of emojis possum-party and I can only imagine this place is a nightmare to navigate for visitors.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

The 500-1k active Hexabarbearians are a plot to... uh... shit let me get back to you.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Check the lower right of this authentic vintage Frank terror meme. So many people just cannot accept how embarassingly sincere most of us are.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

That's awesome I didn't know htat.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

It's fucking bizarre people keep hammering on this when the US is engaged in, I cannot emphasize this enough, anti-trans genocide as defined in international law. Like bruh. Bruh. Clean up your own house.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Doing an actual communist revolution because we are just that committed to the bit.

We're method actors. I'm actually a neo-paleo-retro-Whig, but I took the job of being a communist crisis actor and I have integrity.

Lying on my deathbed in 2176, my life having been radically extended by medical research in a prohuman economic environment, My weakened eyes gaze out the window at the cities floating gently above the planet-wide food forest. I gather my descendents around me and croak out "It was all a prank, bro. It's just a prank. I'm not really a communist. I helped build 100$ of communist as a joke. Just for a laugh."

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submitted 1 year ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/technology@lemmy.ml

Seems like the next logical step. Most big games are always-online Games as a Service where your local storage is useless if the company server doesn't handshake. A lot of business and productivity software already requires subscriptions and is partially online. Every single fucking company wants to have an app on your phone so they can watch you in the bathroom. And there's talk that MSFT might start moving Windows off the PC entirely and in to the cloud.

I figure at some point it's in the shareholder's best interests to prohibit users from actually storing anything locally. Storage is really just stolen subscription revenue, when you think about it. Every time a user accesses something on a local drive they're stealing the chance for you to extort them in to paying a subscription fee.

What do think, too distopian? Back when tapes, CDs, MiniDiscs, all the old generations of data storage that you could write to at home were first circulating the media industries tried real, real hard to make them illegal to privately own. We've been fighting an escalating battle against digital (and analog I guess) IP regimes ever since then. Streaming has pretty much killed physical media afaik. I have no idea if blu-rays or DVDs are still printed for sale.

Idk, just a thought. Let me know what you think.

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