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  • most universally acceptable video file formats?

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  • I like this idea. Stick in a portable video player in the usb too. Then you got a working combo all together.

  • steam vs gog, which game store to buy from?

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  • This is a bit complex because of the way people define own.

    Technically no one but the company who developed the games own the game.

    Publishers effectively own it as they usually monopolize the entire licensing control of the game.

    Gamers never own but merely have the license to play. This is true even with games from long time ago. While you do own the physical disk, you only license the data inside the disk.

    Some people may define ownership of a game by the fact that no one is going to take it away from you. In that way, gog does do that. Since you can download a DRM free version you can install as many times as you want for as along as you want.

  • Saudi Fund to Own Almost All of Electronic Arts After Buyout

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  • Yeah. If there's a Saudi that is rich enough to buy EA on a whim, he'd definitely think $1000 for a game is very cheap and don't understand what pricing issue exists.

  • Microsoft has blocked Massgrave's KMS38 activation method for Windows

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  • I would say give onlyoffice a try. It's not FOSS but does have free tier for home use and it's what I go to for non-main work computer. Beats libre imo.

  • How to remove 'anti-piracy' footers from complex PDFs?

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  • My best answer at this point would be that you need to make your own program to find and remove by content. Because no other manual pdf editor would reasonably have such a feature since it's so niche.

    Also vibe coding with AI tends to be very good for singular tasks like this.

    I wouldn't recommend converting the pdf to anything else since that would remove the layer info unless it's to more complicated formats like EPS, illustrator, etc.

  • [Jenny Gorelick] Co-Stars

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  • I would have no issue with vibrator usage, since that's a tool, not a person. But I don't think I want anyone else dunking on my gf while I make the alley-oop.

    From the emasculated male perspective, LeBron is the competitor, not your teammate.

  • How would I turn an old android phone into a music streaming server

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  • To properly do this the phone has to support it at hardware level. Pixel and iPhone have this feature but don't know about yours. There are apps like battery guru which will alert you, but you have to manually unplug at that point.

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  • Could've been just a greasy hand when it was off and not hot. The patina can then build differently there because of the residue.

  • How is it indeed

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  • This is why reading and writing is one of my lucid dreaming triggers. Don't need tops or other tokens like in Inception. Just try to read the same thing multiple times and it's different everytime in a dream, because you aren't actually reading, just hallucinating that you are.

  • Ha ha!

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  • My guess: It's a link. This news website likely will show other South Africa news if you click it.

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  • Payment processors don't know which game you bought. That's not the concern.

    Their concern is that the store they do business with provides services to content they deem inappropriate. Frankly, I'm surprised they allowed this much for so long given the past.

    Why credit card processors are puritans, I have no idea. But MC, Visa and PayPal have historically always been super anti-porn.

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  • Article states it's the cost of only the last and third subpoena. Since the first two were struck down in court already, they're arguing making the exact same request again for a third time afterwards is just waste of time for everyone.

  • I would still download a car if I could. 🚗

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  • Unauthorized reproduction or copyright infringements is more scary and dramatic than theft in some ways. Just look at the punishment for copyright infringement vs theft. One is waaaaaay more severe. It's almost akin to saying "You stole his life!" Instead of "you killed him!" Since severity of punishment for copyright infringements is pretty much up there with murder.

  • EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops

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  • I'd say it's like half meetings. and the other half is prepping for meetings. In office and out of office too, dinner, golf, etc. Small meetings like with the other C positions, mid level mgt, to large meetings like conferences. Pretty much from mid-size company and up, it's all just meetings. And when shit hits the fan, they get to decide on which shit tastes better.

    Types of meetings change too. Like if you want more cash, which companies usually do, you're on constant hunt for investment meetings and networking. And generally the entire time, various companies will try to approach your company (or you) to setup a meeting so they can say how wonderfully helpful their company is for your company. Sometimes you agree to those meetings and sometimes you don't. Again, even as a mid sized company, you likely get enough requests for meetings that you literally can't book all of them. So you get more C levels to delegate some of those meetings for you and then you have meetings with your C levels. And as you grow, you try to weed out less important ones. And you do that through... networking.

    Everything kinda keeps looping back to networking.

    Imagine you're playing CK3 or any grand strategy 4X game. Networking is like allies. You can just get whole bunch of allies to attacc other kingdoms even if you're weak. That's the power of networking. And every click of a button to do something is like a meeting. You want to build a fort? In CK3, click. In IRL, meeting.

  • ✓ {resolved by installing ublock} What's up with 1337x.to and so many redirects?

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  • It's the ad networks fault. And it's 1337x fault for using shitty ad network. But once you get into shadier and less commonly approved business, only options you have for ads are shitty networks that have nearly no ad vetting system. Which means sometimes you get shit like this happening.

  • North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever

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  • I would bet this is actually multiple people sharing IP.

    Many countries and ISPs that lack IPv4 pool many people under single public IP and then redistribute later to individual. Very rare at ISP level in NA but very common in SEA. Though VPNs also give the same effect. And there's probably no country in earth more lacking in IP assignments than North Korea. The entire country shares measly four of /24 assignments which means roughly 1024 IPs for the entire country including all of infrastructure equipments that need IP assignments.

    So likely a pool of people from NK show up under the same IP. They do physically connect through China entirely. But these few IP assignments that's assigned to NK should show up as NK instead of China.

    Speaking of VPNs, some VPN companies claim they have NK IP. Never tried myself, but if true people using that VPN and connecting to steam would also show up as a dot there. So they may not even be North Koreans.

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  • And then builders remove a third to save money. Resulting with just barely standing building.

  • Manga in Japanese?

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  • Mangajikan used to be THE place. Like supposedly even more traffic than Facebook in Japan. But they very recently got shut down. Like less than a week ago.

    You can look for possible future revival. Which they had briefly but dead again.

    I don't know any others. But you can search starting from that keyword.

  • “Piracy is piracy”: Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney in a Hollywood first

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