Haven’t similar lawsuits been lost based on the precedent set by baseball cards and such?

They probably need to show investors that the money spent developing it is worth it. “We’ve added X amount of users this quarter alone!”

I’ve been thinking the same thing. The online tech community is a very small part of a much larger pie and they need to serve multiple audiences. As long as it can be turned off and truly be off, who cares?

Roach estimated he spent 20 or so hours on the suit, including arranging to have a summons served on Verizon and arguing his case in a court hearing. Roach didn’t get much of a payout considering the amount of time he spent, “but it wasn’t about that,” he said.

He did it himself and the ruling includes compensating for the costs associated with.

Man, this guy was on a mission and I respect it.

Steam Machine is interesting. It feels like a solid time for someone to disrupt TV based gaming.

Solid context that I hadn’t considered. Thanks.

Yeah I think you misread the headline lol. There’s nothing positive here.

I actually stepped my subscription tier down because of the price increase on Ultimate. Wasn’t worth the 50% jump for me.

I’m honestly surprised your’s is not the top comment. Like, whatever, the launch was bad, but there is a serious mental health crisis if people are forming emotional bonds to the software.

I share the same feeling. The flat lifeless interfaces need to go.

Meta also expected the meta-verse to be the future of the web and thus rename their company, Meta lol

Man, I can’t stand this guy. He thinks dressing like a healing guru makes him any different than the rest of his peers. No one should give a shit about what he thinks anymore.

I’ve always said that AR was the real future. Technology that isolates people from others in the same room as them always seems to fail.

15 years? Wow. He could have run down multiple pedestrians, killed one of them, and used a false insurance claim to try to cover it up and gotten a third of that.

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/texas-man-sentenced-2024-hit-run-crash-killed-air-force-veteran-downtown-indianapolis-salvador-benales-james-breedlove/531-f7ddb3c7-c316-4b5a-b62f-b6162eff699d

Can Elmo say the word if Elmo is singing his favorite song?

I can’t imagine anyone wants this lol. I’m surprised it’s not somehow managed by “AI”

AOC backed an idea to build homes and the ln hand over ownership to tenant cooperatives or non-profit orgs. Seemed like a decent idea on the surface.

https://gothamist.com/news/rep-aoc-unveils-new-housing-plan-to-spur-more-than-1m-affordable-homes

Mortgage rates coming down is not the answer. It’ll only drive up demand while supply stays the same. There is a major need for more supply. People will reply with the number of vacant units, but vacancy is a broad measure that ignores things like a house currently being sold and going through the closing process.

The country, as a whole, needs something like 6.5 million more housing units to meet demand at which point prices would come down.

It’s unfortunately not going to happen without government (local or federal) intervention.

This Freakonomics episode focuses more on rentals but the basic concepts are the same:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-rent-control-doesnt-work/