Unironically I like that

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

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 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?

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?

Yes, but you said you were using Resolve for color grading. My understanding is you should still be able to use that on Linux, but I haven’t tried it yet myself.

If you’re willing to consider something not Wear OS, Garmin watches offer many of the same features and typically multiple days of battery life.

It’s not FOSS (IIRC) but I think Resolve is fully available on Linux?

People used to post Piped/Invidious links all the time, but that eventually became a problem because it meant the link often went to a different proxy than the one that might be a user’s preferred server, and it made it harder to copy the link for use with a preferred server. After some discussion, the consensus became that people should just post the YouTube URL as the main link so users could utilize the preferred proxy they likely already have configured, and then (optionally) include a Piped/Invidious link in the body text for those who don’t currently use a proxy but would like to try it.

I’ve sometimes wondered what life looks like for people after they get out of the industry and get older. Did your past career affect your future jobs? Was it something you told romantic partners? Did you ever tell family members, at the time or later? Were you ever worried about people finding out about your career? Sometimes you hear about all these people doing online work like Only Fans or similar, and while some are making lots of money, many presumably aren’t, and it leaves me wondering if in the future the ones who didn’t make it will feel like it was worth the effort.

I would like to have seen Montana.

What a great name!

I haven’t paid much attention, but I had some myCharge units I bought at Costco last year get recalled. I suspect a lot of these have cheap batteries from suppliers that don’t put much effort into consistent quality. That’s “okay” with alkaline batteries where the worst that happens is they leak and maybe ruin the device they were in. Have poor quality with a lithium battery and you get a fire or even explosion. I suspect with Anker or some of the other brand names at least you’ll actually get a recall if there’s a problem. A lot of the other no-name, fly-by-night brands on Amazon or elsewhere probably don’t even give you that.

Ah yes, Crenshaw’s Law in action

If it’s simply because the image hasn’t loaded the text often displays in a box in place of the image. If the person is visually impaired their screen reader can read the text out loud or display it in their Braille device.

In the old days web browsers would often display the alt text as a “tool tip” or little message that would appear on top of the image if you left your mouse over it, but this functionality was changed to the “title” attribute since the alt text is primarily for accessibility purposes and should be descriptive, not pointing out some feature in the image or making jokes.

I’ve long wondered about how that became a strong profanity