Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

Has someone asked what there IS to defend if not people's lives?

I mean, that's all true, and yet they're still light-years ahead of the US...

Also, in guessing this was made by an American, because nobody outside of there would call left parties liberal. Liberal parties are to the right, it's just that the US doesn't actually have an actual left.

The thing is, just like software subscriptions, you aren't buying a piece of software, you're buying the right to use it. You can be pretty sure that they have legalese in the eula that says that your right to use the software expires with non-use. I wouldn't be surprised if they can even let it expire by simple deciding to no longer support it.

And what do you think will happen if their license servers ever go offline?

For the longest time I never bought anything digital, but I eventually caved to steam. I still blatantly refuse to join other digital platforms, except gog where I can download the software and it works without any remote server.

Same for music: I refuse to use Spotify. I buy from 7digital and the like, where I can download either mp3 or FLAC.

Hey, Tony, I'll give you five bucks and a swift kick in the nuts for Sony. It's the best offer I ever made for it!

Apologies for posting in English, but my German just isn't good enough 🙂

BOTH strategies don't work.

There are numerous examples of places where the extremists have been allowed to rule (Poland, Hungary, ...) and while they're clearly incompetent to a neutral observer, they are all of them populists who have carefully studied Göring. Don't be fooled by the stereotypical electorate, the leaders know exactly what they're doing. They mostly run on divide and conquer, and to divide they use us-vs-them politics where there is always another minority to blame.

Unfortunately, as a Flemish Belgian, I can tell you that isolating them doesn't work either. Ever since "black Sunday" in the 90s, we've had the "cordon sanitaire" around the Vlaams Blok. They have in the mean time been found guilty of racism and forcibly disbanded, and they just restarted as Vlaams Belang. The cordon sanitaire doesn't really help: they just use it as ammunition in their rallying cries against the status quo, and it just adds an underdog aspect to them. People do like an underdog.

By now we've come to the point where for ver m several election cycles, the less extreme NVA (right-wing nationalists) have repeatedly made tentative ouvertures to be willing to govern with VB as long as they "clean up the ranks" first; and the fear is that VB will at one point be so big that it will be impossible to form a majority without them.

We obviously need to fight these ideas, but forbidding them it's no more a solution than letting it run it's course. It looks like the only way through is proper education, but that's a process of decades... And of course anything right-wing doesn't like good education, as people who know history and can think clearly don't vote for them.

My religion requires me to punch you in the face. Are we both going to observe, or are we both going to be sensible?

We truly love in interesting times. Fuck, I wish we didn't.

As if any spyware worth it's salt didn't install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like "Facebook" or "TikTok".

I don't think they're wrong, either. Some Americans do seem to think that foreigner means "not from the US".

They should have just plain been disbarred. They were, de facto, lying in court.

I think it also helps that it wasn't intentional. Nobody likes the obvious corp whoring for a quick cash grab.