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Do not give the wastes of oxygen and semen in charge any fucking ideas.

Just like scalpers already do with physical limited releases. I fail to see the problem. It's not everyone who's doing it.

It's still a pain to receive a non functional item and dealing with a refund isn't always painless either. Plus age of the game doesn't guarantee you much, original owner could scratch the disc the first day they owned it, heck I've been the second person to hire a blu-ray and it's been scratched by the first.
 
That's the difference between a physical good, it has a changeable condition that may effect it's value.
 
Given a choice between a physical game or digital game used, where the physical item has no additional collectible value, I would take the digital game.

Both Minecraft and Fortnite support Xplay on PC, Switch, Xbox & Mobile. Those 2 games alone are a big enough pool to say its working perfectly.

The idea of equal rights was considered heretic too. 
The console players with that rigid mentality will eventually grow out of it or die to make the change happen...

Playing FPS games with controller is like eating with my feet: Sure you can be amazing at it, but it's not practical

Cant agree more, my email and passwords got leaked recently.  Bro in Saudi Arabia got signed in to a bunch of my shit over the last two days.  I just had to spend all evening re-securing EVERYTHING. 
 
I want privacy.  The kind where if I could afford it, there would be a moat, gaters, and castle walls at the house with parapets lined with archers.

mood
 
Man, it's almost like we haven't been seriously talking about computer security and massive data breaches these last few years. I couldn't see a reason why people wouldn't want a security vulnerability legally mandated to be implemented into their messaging platforms.

Oh boy if this garbage goes through like it has in retarded Australia, I hope people involved in this idiocy get burned so hard through same backdoors they want to have at disposal. I want their personal data to be breached through said backdoors so hard so they'll realize how stupid their demands are.

It looks like CCPA of 2018 rules come into effect July 1st, 2020, and that I had it wrong when I wrote January 1st 2020 in the OP. I've corrected it now.

Omg editing client side and not affecting anything else! 

i was about to respond but i dont think i count as a gamer anymore lol

Yes it's new.  The CCPA of 2018 is going into action Jan. 1 2020, the CCPA of 2020 will be on the ballot.  The 2020 essentially adds to the previous based on more recent events in the consumer privacy space.

They can demand all they want, doesn't mean they'll get it. 
Even if they can create laws that force companies to build in a backdoor, nothing stops people from creating their own means of end-to-end encryption.  The genie is out of the bottle.

As many problems as I have with the way California (and especially certain Californian cities) tend to run things, that direct ballot system seems pretty rad. 
 
In regards to the law itself, it's hard to say for sure how good/ineffective it will be since it's basically just a vague idea at this stage. That said, we are drastically overdue for an overhaul of digital privacy law so I'm definitely curious how this turns out. 

The group called Californians for Consumer Privacy have submitted a new California Consumer Privacy Act to be put to a statewide referendum in 2020.
 
You might recall that in 2018 California passed a California Consumer Privacy Act that gives Californians some pretty solid data protection rights, ones which I think are stronger than the ones granted by the EU's GDPR:
 
 
California's 2018 Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) rules come into force July 1st, 2020. And because California has, by far, the United States' largest economy, is where many of the US' biggest tech companies are headquartered, and is home to around 12% of the US' population, I think that data privacy rules in California are likely to impact how big tech companies conduct themselves not just in California, but elsewhere, too.
 
 
Well, there is now a California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020, which seeks to strengthen data privacy rights even further and take into account newer developments in data-harvesting and exploitation methods. To understand why and how this is being done, some backstory is needed about the CCPA of 2018 and certain California law, and things that have happened since the CCPA of 2018 passed.
 
Now, it's uncertain whether the Californian legislative assembly passed those rules out of agreement with them or if they passed them to avoid having the matter go to a statewide referendum, the result of which would have been even stronger rules protecting Californians against data-pilferers and dealers. See, California has a process, called Ballot Initiatives, that allows citizens to craft proposed legislation and then conduct a public petition to try to get a certain amount of signatures in support of the proposed legislation. And if enough signatures are gathered before a deadline, then the proposed legislation will be put to a statewide referendum. And if the referendum turns out in favour of the proposed legislation, then the proposed legislation is made into law - from what I understand, even if it's something California's legislature and government are not in favour of.
 
The California Consumer Privacy Act was started by the group Californians for Consumer Privacy, which had originally intended the matter to be a Ballot Initiative that all California would vote on. They had more than enough support and it was a sure thing to pass and be made into law. For whatever reason, though possibly due to tech industry concerns, Californians for Consumer Privacy decided to let it be passed by California's legislature instead, and in the process some of the initiative's wording and regulation was toned down - not too much, but a bit. By passing the proposed legislation through the legislature rather than have it be voted on in a referendum, a slightly more big tech company-friendly version of the proposed legislation became the law.
 
So, because of that 'if not passed in the legislature a stricter version is guaranteed to pass by referendum' situation, it's difficult to say whether California's governor and legislature genuinely liked and agreed with the CCPA rules, or if they passed it just to avoid a more big tech company-unfriendly version from becoming law by referendum. I would like to think that they do agree with the CCPA rules.
 
So, the proposed legislation became law, to come into force July 1st, 2020. And big tech companies weren't happy about it. They have tried in different methods to stop its regulation of data-harvesting by trying to get in front of the situation and have rules crafted by themselves to be favourable to themselves passed at the federal level, which they hope would override California's state laws:
 
 
They also tried to curtail some of the CCPA's rules by submitting bills to the California State Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. Unfortunately, the PCPC capitulated to the big tech companies and advanced those bills. And at the same time while the PCPC advanced the big tech company bills to soften the incoming CCPA rules, they declined to advance additional bills submitted by Californians for Consumer Privacy that would strengthen the already-passed CCPA rules.
 
Well, Californians for Consumer Privacy are having none of it, and they are back to their original plan of having full-strength data privacy rights voted on in a statewide referendum. And they aren't doing that simply because of threats to the existing and passed CCPA rules, but also because since the CCPA passed there have developed new ways that tech companies are violating people's privacy and exploiting them for their data, and the CCPA in its current form might not cover all those situations.
 
This is the information about their new ballot initiative that I received in an email from their newsletter:
 
The two links at the top of that email contain the full text of the proposed new legislation to be voted on by Californians.
 
If you're Californian and want to see greater data security and privacy, then I recommend sharing this information with people you know. And if you aren't Californian but know people who are, maybe share it with them, too.
 
As a general impression, California's Ballot Initiative system seems wonderful to me, an avenue for genuine direct democracy. I don't know if it's something that could be abused easily, but I kind of think it's less likely to produce bad results than keeping the legislation of a state exclusive to a bunch of politicians, many of whom depend on corporate donations to campaign and for positive coverage in order to keep their job. I think every region should have a Ballot Initiative type of thing.
 

The laws of mathematics are commendable, but the only law in Australia is the law of Australia
 
-some absolute nutthead important Australian

Can't wait for the far right to start using ?  as a symbol.  Let's see how fast Facebook removes the "like" button from all over the internet then. 

This is not true. It's entirely possible to install a distro like Ubuntu and do "everyday tasks" without having to use the terminal once.
It just depends on what your definition of "everyday tasks" is. Most people I know would not need the terminal because they do little more than web browsing and use an office suite.
 
 
I don't think they are any different, other than some functionality being disabled (by default) if you don't use a Microsoft account such as clipboard syncing.
Not sure what you mean with the last part but I assume it's "why are people critizing Microsoft for this? Would you say the same thing if Google made it mandatory for Android" and I think the answer to that is yes. I would not be pleased if Google all of a sudden started requiring an online account to use your phone.
But there is a big difference here. We have never really had good privacy and options on our phones. If you get a smartphone it's kind of understood that it will suck in terms of options and privacy (at least with Android). However, we are used to it being decent on PCs.
I think it's a bigger blow (and news) when one sector goes backwards and makes a product worse (if you think dark patterns is a step back, which I think it is) by limiting options and choice. Going from decent to bad is a bigger punch than going from bad to slightly more bad.

In before the usual people who defend this type of behavior from Microsoft just goes "you just have to unplug your computer from the Internet and then create the local account. We should all lick Microsoft's shoes because they are so kind to continue to give us a way to use local accounts!".

FEAR ME MORTALS (btw this isn't the legendary 3310,I believe it's a 3350 or something like that, I'm too lazy to check :b)

I posted some statuses about it but forgot about this thread, so here you go:
 
This is the JJanck, my JJ40, "like planck, " build.  (Yes, that is a quote from the KPRepublic site)

 
Switchwise, I am running mainly gateron browns, with a single blue that I stole from a switch test kit.

 
The caps are a sublimated DSA kit from PimpMyKeyboard.  
 
I 3d printed the case and plate using my own design because the one from OLKB wasn't good enough.
 
TODO:
 
Iterate the case design to use heat pressed inserts and standoffs instead of screwing directly into the plastic.
 
Buy a proper metal plate.
 
Actually screw the plate into the case.
 
Paint the new case if I ever get around to actually designing and printing it.

No, because SteelSeries don't own the switch.
 
I hate that SteelSeries imply that they are the pioneers of the next great switch when they're far from it.

I posted some statuses about it but forgot about this thread, so here you go:
 
This is the JJanck, my JJ40, "like planck, " build.  (Yes, that is a quote from the KPRepublic site)

 
Switchwise, I am running mainly gateron browns, with a single blue that I stole from a switch test kit.

 
The caps are a sublimated DSA kit from PimpMyKeyboard.  
 
I 3d printed the case and plate using my own design because the one from OLKB wasn't good enough.
 
TODO:
 
Iterate the case design to use heat pressed inserts and standoffs instead of screwing directly into the plastic.
 
Buy a proper metal plate.
 
Actually screw the plate into the case.
 
Paint the new case if I ever get around to actually designing and printing it.

" Cathode Ray Amusement Device " would like to disagree
 
 

Ah, yeah. My b.
 
I always find it hilarious when big keyboard companies act like they've revolutionized everything by introducing a board with features or switches that have existed in the high-end, custom market for years.