jqubed @ jqubed @lemmy.world

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It would be a big, expensive case, and as there are well-funded organisations that rely on the precedent not being set against them in both directions, both sides would get interested third parties funding their legal fees. No one wants that, so Nintendo stick to claiming emulators are illegal on their website

I would assume particularly that no one who has big interests there wants it to go to court because once there’s a ruling and a precedent is set it becomes much harder to change if you’re on the losing side. So, for example, if game publishers lost and it was clearly ruled legal that consumers have a right to make software work with hardware that the software was never intended for, that would make it much harder for publishers to fight emulators without some additional problem like trademark infringement. The advice I’ve heard is unless you can be absolutely certain how a judge will rule, you want to avoid going to court because strange and unexpected things can happen in a courtroom that can be very bad for you.

Never heard of such a thing, but there’s a lot of video trends I don’t understand already

CD-R works better in my car and Discman

You would’ve had to pay for the call itself, but probably only if you had to make a long-distance call. I think by that time local numbers were pretty universally unlimited minutes, but long distance was 25¢/minute or more. I was too young to be buying phone service myself, then, but remember TV ads promoting 25¢ or 10¢ or something like that as a good deal. Around 2003 when I was first living on my own I used to buy prepaid calling cards to call home and those got me as low as 3¢/minute, and that was a bargain.

I seem to remember our first disks/discs coming in with 5 free hours. That might’ve even been included with a Packard Bell we bought.

I think it peaked around 6 months, then got better and the teeth less sharp. But we definitely got a “teenager” closer to 2-3 years.

I think the fix was to put a limit on the script, just have it run a couple times, the same as it would during the day, not just keep going until it gets stopped.

I’ve seen hiring ads referring to them as McJobs

I don’t think I’ve spent a dime on Epic but have a nice little collection going there. I have spent a reasonable amount at GoG and have a nice collection there, too.

And at those prices I’ve bought it at least twice

Is the photo missing for everyone?

I think the bug and the cost were not that the cost was different at that time of day, but that by running at night without worry of interruption her script ran multiple times doing upload after upload after upload. If it had been during the day they would only have a few succeed because the line would get interrupted or couldn’t be used. Maybe during the day they’d only succeed on 3-5 calls but at night the script was making 50, 60, maybe even 70 calls.

Yes, normally Neutral Good but will go Chaotic Good if the corral is empty or pretty much empty. I’m lawful good if I only have a free things or there is no corral, but in those cases I try to avoid bringing the cart back to the car.

I’d be more inclined to think teenagers took it for hijinks, but I’m not familiar with the neighborhood where you found it, of course

Spent the past couple weeks in France visiting my wife’s family, and was surprised that most of the stores had the coin locks but were not using them, as in they had all been disconnected so you didn’t need to use a coin to release them. I think the only store we needed coins at was E.Leclerc.

Do you have some sort of anchor back “home” that takes care of any basic mail for you?

Do you think you’ll ever “settle” in any of the countries you visit and make that your new home, at least for a few years?

Going off your username you might be a young woman, around 19? Have you ever felt unsafe traveling? I had an acquaintance from high school who did something similar in the mid-/late-’00s and said people often asked about her safety, especially when she passed through countries with a more misogynistic reputation, but said she never encountered any threatening situation.

How often have people paid for your flights or similarly expensive transportation?

I think the old plastic rings have been banned in some states. For cans I’ve mostly seen beer cans now coming in a thicker but more widely recyclable ring. Sometimes they come in paperboard boxes like the larger packs do and suspect that’s where the industry is moving. I’ve still seen something like the old rings come with soda in plastic bottles. Really not sure why they haven’t changed.