That anonymizes Google results. It’s Google, all the way down.

Can we stop doing anti-trans “I identify as…” jokes?

If you use Steam quite a bit, check out the ProtonDB Web site. That can tell you the level of compatibility. 90% of my library seemed to be covered, and it’s seamless. I was impressed!

Edit to say: One problem I had was getting my Brother printer to work over WiFi. That was some annoying arcane wizardry, but I finally got it to work.

“The law makes it illegal for rich and poor equally to live in homeless encampments.”

Because it is not the thing being sold in the package.

Cheaper option: invent a time machine. Go back 30 years. Buy up all of the cardboard with the word Mox on them, and everything with a black border. Travel back to 2025. Sell cardboard and retire!

ProtonMail was a huge disappointment. I was a paying customer.

But I’m happy so far with Tuta.

And thoughts like, “What kind of fucking moron votes for this guy 3 times, and then whines about getting screwed by Trump on national TV?”

And then some genius cooked it AGAIN and invented toast!

Brother printers to the rescue. I think they are still untainted by crap bloatware and just do the thing.

I though this was the “Mildly terrifying” forum for a sec.

I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀

Some heros don’t wear capes, but you can if you want to

EULA’s are widely honored and established law. However, anyone can push back on anything they put in an agreement.

To fight Microsoft, you have to fight Microsoft’s lawyers, in Microsoft’s jurisdiction. But you can’t sue them, because you already agreed to arbitration. And you’d have to pay lawyers in what would be a long, drawn out process.

If Microsoft demands things that are incredibly weird like what you describe above, there definitely would be a chance it could be appealed to a court and eventually see a judge. I think it would be a long and expensive process for both sides getting there. And Microsoft’s argument would be, “The user has the option to stop using it.”

There are undoubtedly severance clauses in there, so if a court deems a part of a license illegal, then it is stricken, and the rest of the agreement stands.

So, Microsoft’s lawyers only put things in the agreement that they are 99+% sure of wanting and winning. So they probably won’t request your spleen. They don’t want that. They just want your money, your data, and your eyeballs connected to your brain.

It kinda does make it legal. If you don’t agree to the terms of the product, then you are using it illegally. It sucks, but that’s where the law is. I am typing this on a Linux laptop in Firefox, but those have terms and conditions, too!

Yes, but - in many of those contracts (particularly end-user license agreements) you agreed to them changing the terms of the contract. You also have an “out” - not using the product any more.

You’re right though: it’s slimy. Anything slimy thing can be put into a contract!

Source: I’m not a lawyer, but worked in an office with a lot of them, and worked with software license agreements in particular.

I bet Trump has other people pay fines for him. “Take it out of the special Russian account.”

1. So what?
2. Damn straight they are locked. Other wise you get Nicole spam on all of them, instead of just a few.
3. So what?

The buck stops with the previous guy.

Wow, are you me? Because this is a pretty accurate biography of my life!