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I find this annoying. I have three different 8bitdo controllers hanging around my house. I have the original 8bitdo sn30 pro, the pro plus, and the pro 2. After I bought the pro 2 they came out with the Xbox variant. The difference between the pro 2 regular and the pro 2 Xbox variant? The additional rear buttons on the Xbox variant work and are mappable in steam os. Where the ones on the original pro 2 are not. Do both of these controllers have the ultimate software? Yes. But unfortunately one of them doesn't contain the hardware to make those physical buttons work as physically and programbaly different than the other buttons on the controller.

I can buy this. I could by the Xbox variant pro 2. But I don't want to have to keep buying essentially the same controller to get functionality it should have had in the first place.

It's already got ai summaries of the news articles that show up there for me and I'm about to disable it just because of that.

They're upset about your use of UBO. They are actively targeting users who have it enabled. That's why it's trying to force you to sign in.

For what it's worth, I second the others. Don't disable Ublock Origin. Try a different YouTube front end if you have to. Google can kick rocks with them s nonsense.

Are you also using something like ubo?

I already covered the fact that it depends on the country in my first comment.

I'm arguing that the person who bought the used game has no control whatsoever over the fact that a backup copy of that game cartridge had been created.

If you so much as lend out your copy of a game they can brick the system that the copy was leant to? That's what you're arguing here. Because that's the conclusion of "you have to retain ownership". The conclusion is that that somehow makes it okay to harm a third party you can't even prove did anything wrong.

Say I lend my copy of a game to my kid? I'm still the owner. I still have the cartridge. This is what I'm talking about. Nintendo doesn't know that the law was broken just because you inserted a mig cartridge into your console. They don't know that the law was broken when the game cartridge is inserted into another switch.

But they are acting as if they do know and are actively detrimentally affecting their customers as a result and they don't care. That's not okay.

Because not everyone has a bank account. Some people get paid via a cash card or similar (as an alternative to paper checks or direct deposit if they don't have a bank account). This allows them to pay in alternate ways. But additionally all trouble calls/maintenance requests are done through that same portal. I signed my lease through it.

It's legal. Even if you sell on the product after the fact. There's no accounting for whether or not you kept your backup. They don't know what happened to the file. Perhaps you sold the entire console, games and all. Perhaps you lost the physical cartridge and someone else found it and sold it. The point is, Nintendo shouldn't be allowed to brick a physical device just because they feel like someone might have violated the law. They aren't judge and jury.

My new rent portal is one of these sites. Can't just not pay rent because I don't like chromium browsers.

The federal government leaked my PII including my social security number in 2015.

I'm aware (my mother works in healthcare, specifically with patient PII), of both the laws and regulations involved. But what I'm saying is, this is not going to stop them from excusing their behavior and there's not enough states to oppose them in the long run.

This is what happens when we allow idiots who don't have any critical thinking skills to elect an idiot intent on tearing the system apart to the highest office in the land. Twice.

There's laws against this administration firing or laying off GI's. There's laws that should have prevented the firing of whole government agencies. There's laws in place that are supposed to be protecting our information from DOGE. Those laws have been sparingly enforced, and are constantly under threat because the orange idiot had more than one term to stack court appointed judges and legislators.

Even when this administration isn't doing that they're doing so many illegal acts at one time that our justice system couldn't keep up even without people working against it from the inside. They're speed running fascism over here.

Thiel and the rest of the crony bunch are going to continue to develop Palantir to "adhere to the laws and regulations in place" while taking advantage of the fact that AI isn't really being regulated at all and most of the people holding public office don't have a good understanding of what it is, let alone what dangers it presents even without PII involved.

If you think they care about privacy laws, I think I could probably find a bridge to sell you.

I would argue that this should already have been part of your media literacy "talk" that you were having with children who have access to the Internet.

1. Generative AI LLM's spread a lot of misinformation but misinformation was already readily available on the internet before the LLM's became so prolific.
2. LLM's allow for a much faster development and proliferation of slop, but slop was already there on the internet before LLM's of this caliber existed.
3. If your children can't understand that the internet is not just a collection of facts then you are failing as a parent. People (including children) should know that they can't believe everything they see on the internet, and for various reasons. This is part of teaching critical thinking skills and it should be taught at a young age.

I recently heard that some countries have media literacy as part of the curriculum in their schools and it makes for an incredibly media literate populace even in the wake of AI LLM's being shoehorned into everything and all the slop that has become so prevalent.

You might not have the skills to teach your kid photo or video editing or such, but you have the skills to at least go "assume that the internet is lying to you and verify all sources".

Listen. I don't disagree with you. But 2 things. 1. The government used to have people in it that would uphold such restrictions on access. Lots of those people have been culled by the current administration. 2. The government didn't need a reason to input your data into a computer program for access when they switched over from paper files. They didn't need a reason when they switched to a more "universal" health data management system as the technology evolved. And they will say that this is just another evolution of that technology. So in essence they already have their "reason" and they already have people in place who will let them get away with it.

The short answer is there's a good chunk of Americans on some form of Medicaid (regardless of what name it wears) and in exchange for healthcare provided by the government, they give access of their medical PII to the government because the government is their healthcare insurance provider.