It might be that bad. Most ‘damage’ (as publishers see it) comes from distribution, not the download itself. Depending on how they acquired the books, it might be not be much of a problem.

Just waiting for the first decision made because of AI hallucinations.

With this government? You might get disappeared to a black site because a LLM “decided” that you probably are a terrorist…

I hope everyone always calls ICE on them, whenever someone notices these rich immigrants.

Even if they don’t take them into custody, wasting both their time would be a good start.

Yes, I think a lot of Americans are not aware that there are official travel warnings against going to the United States and for good reasons.

It’s an elder scrolls game… It’s going to be modded into … Oblivion

And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

How the hell are we supposed to install it without a Internet connection? I worked in a company that was so hard on security that only certified machines were allowed access to the net, so virtual machines were not allowed to access the LAN and therefore the Internet. Generally not a problem as we just used them to test software on different OS versions, so no Internet required.

This change disallows all offline installs. What is their gain? Are they that keen on our data or are they planning to use the connection to a Microsoft account for something even worse than just selling personal information? I could think of a few reasons and none are nice…

Tech could make our life easier, if only the fruits of increased efficiency would go towards us all instead of the few rich people at the top.

And after the dialogue: a extremely hard boss fight. No saving while in dialogue or in combat.

Of course mandatory to advance the story.

It’s not enough, but better than nothing. The minimum one could do. And now he will neither follow this or any other agreement against climate change.

Well it helps, but if you live under an oligarchy they will find ways to stop uncontrolled social media.

You have to address the root of the problem or you will ultimately fail as soon as you get big enough to be a problem.