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[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

What software is good for document layout anyway? Something with PDFs?

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, I can immediately see how that would be so much worse. Thank the gods that I was born after cigarettes started to be banned in public areas.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's kinda morphed into a pinwheel, which still sorta makes sense as pinwheels have been a staple of photo and camera advertising for their bright colours and rapid movement.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

GNU isn't punchy though; as soon as any punchy word get's associated with them, people will use that word instead, and we'll just get GNU/Thermite or GNU/Abson or something.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

See that's more realistic. Sneaking off to walmart is still a bit of a stretch in sprawl-hell, but I can see how a cheap locally available phone might make it's way into anyone's hands, especially as a hand-me-down.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Piracy has always been a distribution issue. There are definitely greedy lazy people who will always want more for less, but the organized effort required for piracy only happens when fair access is impossible.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

And buying that requires knowledge of amazon, knowledge of what phone is useful, knowledge to avoid a scam or faulty product, an email address, a credit card, and a device to order from.

Children are surprisingly clever and have all the time in the world, but they aren't professional pen-testers and don't have the experience needed to use online services before having access to them.

It's far more likely they get a hand-me-down device from a friend and keep it at school, especially if they know such a thing would be confiscated immediately upon discovery. Preventing this interaction would require control over the child's life nearing Amish levels, or prison levels.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Boost also has yet to implement spoiler tags.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wait until you need nested commas, those lists won't delineate themselves!

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago

It's like a pressure wave! The boat is gone, but the wake is still causing you problems.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago

Eh, it's pretty trans-adjacent, same wheelhouse.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

See, you need all the supporting systems for that as well. You can't just buy a computer game and start playing, you also need a motherboard, a CPU, a CPU cooler, a PSU, a network card, at least one drive, some RAM, a bunch of cables, a case, the OS, probably a router and ISP hookup, the electrical outlet and mains power hookup, a shelter for the delicate electronic parts, likely property to build the shelter on, and all the rest of the society BS.

Now to be fair, most people already have electrified housing and probably an internet connection, and many places make a computer a single item purchase, but no one has the systems to bring about a Star Trek style system yet, and even the people who want to build them disagree on how. Building them is also probably going to be quite painful if Star Trek is anything to go by.

Although, perhaps there's a alien civilization out there that's done all this already that you can buy a colonization/uplift from. That might reasonably be a short if expensive order.

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