I work with binary every day or a notation of it, don’t worry

Wait… what

They didn’t just lose, their king pissed of the Europeans so much they felt it necessary to stomp them in to the ground

Other countries call it soccer (Australia and New Zealand) but don’t get the grief Americans get as we are not playing most sports with ourselves to be special

It’s a shortened word for “Association Football” and it is used in the UK as a term frequently enough

It’s because it’s played on foot, rather than horseback like many early sports

But close

Many sports are called football as they have a common origin (and probably because they are played on foot rather than horseback)

Can we just leave it at that for both sides?

There was criminal colonies all over the British empire

A lot of rich Brits also colonised Australia after the basic infrastructure was there

I think it’s like most things, 1% are loud and the rest will accept it

They don’t license out their operating system to other companies or ever claimed it was open

They may be guilty of similar things, but not quite the same

I haven’t had an optical drive in any computer or console or other device for many years at this point

I can understand the reasoning why people think this is a bad thing but it seems this is just where things were going anyway, vote with your wallet I guess

Personally I enjoyed the fact that for the casual consumer cheap windows laptops I would need to run malware scanners on for everyone I know were effectively replaced by iPads and iPhones

The moment other stores are introduced we will go back to the same nonsense, the older open options are still available, why isn’t that enough choice?

I don’t have that either

It’s a spectrum, but I seem to be on the see nothing in my mind end

I’ll always remember going to a rise against concert and scalpers outside were saying “tickets for rise against the machine”, they have no idea what they are selling

Well I got aphantasia, so I’ll stick with tv and films thanks

UK, a few chains tried it here but I imagine it was enough to drive people away so you don’t see it much anymore

I went to the US in 2024 and it was outrageous, every card terminal asked for it

I was under the impression it was just for sit down meals and not stuff like Starbucks or non food related things

I guess the point is that if you don’t have the disc then they can take it away from you

The way I see it is this has enabled companies to upgrade and rerelease games and keep them operational on newer hardware

They don’t know that yet, it’s like 4 months away from release

I have workmates who desperately try and make friends with people at work, I need to socialise with different people outside work

Would it be better if it was on a piece of cardboard with the code behind a scratch off section?