https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc.

Is there any reward for the classroom stuff? I completely skipped it thinking it was all tutorial.

I don’t recall any choices that mattered. They are all fake choices like “Do you want to be rivals: yes/no” and choosing no just repeats the question.

I only singled out Arven because his character started out kind of bratty and my opinion of him flipped completely by the end of the game.

Sw/Sh were a real low point. They boiled the story down to “Let the adults handle it” and left you just running between gyms the entire game.

It’s honestly been too long since I’ve played the older games to judge their writing… but I did play Scarlet recently, and have to give props to Arven’s storyline. It is a shame the game is at Resident Evil 6 levels of unfocused, and brain-dead levels of easy.

because it’s a split from his normal monthly update video where he is supposed to be interacting with his channel members.

He’s already fighting the fight, no reason to give him more work. :P

I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.

Yeah, that’s plausible for sure given how humble Ross is… but for some reason I recall him saying quite early into the campaign (which I may be recalling incorrectly since it was almost a year ago, in many 2+ hour videos) that the EU had very strict political lobbying laws.

Receiving funds was a no-no, and even putting up a billboard would have ran foul of the rules and invalidated everything.

Didn’t Ross mention that taking donations could jeopardize the movement, since the EU has strict rules?

This combo even got rid of something that was ADB blocked in Android 14.

So one of the gotchas about stopped/disabled apps is that other apps can still call and launch them. I frequently saw my apps pop back up even after being disabled, since I used SuperFreezZ to monitor them. https://f-droid.org/packages/superfreeze.tool.android/

The alternative to that would be an ADB disable. IIRC it takes the app away from userspace completely. It doesn’t touch the system-level though, so a factory reset will bring it back.

If you can’t handle setting up ADB and it’s hoops, there is an app combo that can set up a bridge and run the ADB disable for you: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.samolego.canta/

I feel like Microsoft was their own enemy. They kept slicing off small portions of their market in pursuit of vendor lock-in. Now there is nobody left supporting them.

I wish it covered how they went from selling cards giving time for PS+, to requiring mismatched currency cards for PS+.

The real fun started with Android 12. Google introduced the ability for some preloaded apps to avoid being disabled and prevent ADB shell disable.

This is such bad news. I’m sympathetic to content creators who have to step on eggshells to please the algorithm/advertisers… But this?

Yeah, this is not that. We all know who this is for.

That’s the fun part. They come preinstalled!

Reminds me of the old Debian OpenSSL vulnerability that went unnoticed for 2 years… but it did eventually get noticed.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html

I tried so hard to get Debian working on my new build. Problem being: it’s a new build. Debian’s glacial pacing meant my hardware won’t see support for a while. I might try again when Trixie finally releases, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

So I guess my answer is… I’ll distro hop when stability & support reach equal levels.

The most I’ve heard is “They aren’t as bad as the sequels”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

I’ve always wanted to contribute to The Cutting Room Floor wiki but they hide registration behind a Discord server bot that will give the registration code.