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  • noob404noob404 Member

    @ralf said:

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    @noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

    wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

    Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

    I usually gloss it over if it too much to read, i guess i should start using siri or gemini to summarize them moving forward, it's always a dart in arrow if something goes wrong and TnC says otherwise...

    Do you use any applications that actually might have some erroneous T&C that's gonna bite in the back in the future? BTW, always wondered, how these T&Cs work on Linux package manager based installations. Are they implicitly agreed to according to the license of the app?

    There is a legal defense if you never actually read the terms that you can't be bound by them. Sure it's possible to win both sides of that case though, so probably not worth trying out in court.

    Yah, heard people say they could always claim in a court that it was never them that agreed to the T&C.

    Yeah, I guess that's possible too. A lot of shop bought PCs in the past had Windows installed beyond where you agreed to the T&Cs, so that would have been plausible.

    Not sure if it still works. Read a long time ago on Reddit.

    If it was on Reddit, it is definitely true.

    I guess, it was on a legal advice sub iirc.

  • ralfralf Member

    @cainyxues said:
    btw many things seems to be happening here at let 🫠

    6 things. None of them concern your place in the leaderboard. Don't worry about it.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @ralf said:

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    @cainyxues said:
    I was too busy these days so what happening fellas

    Rat takeover/

    Woah there. Participation. We'd never dream of taking over. And if we did, we would be so obvious about it.

    Feel free to, btw.

  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    I'm going to use PocketBase for my next ProofOfConcept app :D

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  • ralfralf Member

    @noob404 said:

    @cainyxues said:
    btw many things seems to be happening here at let 🫠

    Pardon me, bro. Haven't had the time to look into the other threads a lot.

    Yeah, crunchbits have some giveaways where hoodies are an actual reality not just an empty promise.

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    @noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

    wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

    Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

    I remember some EULA once had small print near the bottom saying something like "if you've read this far e-mail ....... and I'll send you $1000" and apparently only 1 or 2 people ever contacted him out of 10s of thousands of people who agreed to the terms.

    Now, that's a good inspiration to actually go through the T&C. That would also actually work as a campaign promoting perusal of T&C.

    Sadly, most of them don't give you $1000 for reading them, just maybe a headache that needs $1000 of drugs to make go away.

    Makes sense. But, if someone were to run a campaign, even $10 would do great things.

    I'm not sure $10 is enough for me to read a complete EULA!

    I'd be more than happy with the $10.

    Barely worth getting out of bed for.
    Getting out of bed AND reading a EULA?
    Nooooooooooo thank you!

    Well, we got different standards for online free money, I guess.

  • ralfralf Member

    @cainyxues said:

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    what you all doing?

    What's up? How are you doing?

    nothing was busy with work at home not homework but actual home work 🤣

    Do you also work from home?

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @cainyxues said:
    btw many things seems to be happening here at let 🫠

    Pardon me, bro. Haven't had the time to look into the other threads a lot.

    Yeah, crunchbits have some giveaways where hoodies are an actual reality not just an empty promise.

    Sometimes, patience pays off.

  • ralfralf Member

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    @noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

    that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

    I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

    Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

    No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

    IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

    Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

    Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

    Man, 3 PS3s lying there alone without the company of a power and HDMI cable. Guess rats don't have any sympathy for their tech.

    4 PS3s. Although, I don't actually know where 3 of them are. Maybe in the loft.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    Most of us who have been active here on RackNerd threads have atleast one or two merch items at the very least to show for it. But, takes patience and fast fingers. @BlazinDimes is a colelctor.

  • ralfralf Member

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    @noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

    that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

    I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

    Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

    No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

    IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

    Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

    Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

    Man, 3 PS3s lying there alone without the company of a power and HDMI cable. Guess rats don't have any sympathy for their tech.

    I need to dig out my Hong Kong one actually as I bought a region locked blu-ray from there recently. Wonder where it is...

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    @noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

    that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

    I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

    Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

    No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

    IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

    Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

    Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

    Man, 3 PS3s lying there alone without the company of a power and HDMI cable. Guess rats don't have any sympathy for their tech.

    4 PS3s. Although, I don't actually know where 3 of them are. Maybe in the loft.

    As a person who had to struggle readlly hard to even get one, it's just super sad for me.

  • ralfralf Member

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    I am slowly loving AI content generation - video and images. Might be time to invest in a good home server for it. The Android box just isn't gonna cut it :lol:

    not even my rig, LLM consumes resources like crazy..... although i haven't tried any(yet) i believe it will completely mess up my thermal charts off the grid.

    It will. When I said, AI meant using APIs. Oh God no, I won't ever dare run them locally.

    I hope your "AI" isn't code for rats in a maze? You humans can be very cruel to a species with superior intellect, but just afflicted by overly small paws that make it difficult to fight back.

    But JUST YOU WAIT. If I find out you're holding rats captive, we will get revenge. Nibble your network cable or worse. And THEN you'll be sorry.

    No rats will be harmed in the making of my home server. Infact, I am ready for a compromise. I will make a rathouse just alongisde my server with unlimited cheese supply and Tom & Jerry 24/7 on a 5 inch screen such that they don't touch my server.

    I'm glad to hear that you plan to make a home for rats, but... Tom and Jerry? TOM? That well known serial killer? Forcing rats to watch that violence perpetrated against our mousey brethren is almost torture. Maybe you could consider screening Stuart Little or The Great Mouse Detective instead?

    Nah, we had a vote with the rats in my neghbourhood. They are T&J fans, they love how Jerry wins every time over Tom./

    Yeah, the stories resolve well, but you do have to take the "warning: contains mild peril" at the the start a LOT more seriously than "mild" would suggest.

    You get those warnings in the UK?

    Mild Peril is not something to be taken lightly. It's only one step away from Severe Peril and only a bit further still to Rat Tourture.

    Ah, For us, the shows began with no warnings.

    I hope all your young rats survived the mental trauma.

    Mental trauma? That was and is a stigma here and pretty much everywhere. Even if we have/had that, no way for us to know. Ignorance is bliss.

    I meant the trauma of suddenly seeing rat violence without any prior warning.

    Yah, I understood, I was talking in general, about how any mental trauma is taken in current society. You see, I got serious for a moment there, even though you were just joking :lol:

    Understandable. Us rats are always serious, so it's easy to miss our occasional jokes.

  • ralfralf Member

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    @noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

    that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

    I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

    I may or may not have 4 PS3s.

    What are you, USAF?

    No, they had at least 5 PS3s.

    Ah, you stopped at 3 to not piss em off. Smart move.

    Ssssh. 4. But yeah. I only have 4 paws, so any more PS3s than that is just greedy, as I can't use them all at once.

    Oh, that's understandable. You won't make much selling them as well. Guess it's a better idea to store them for now.

    Yeah, one day they'll be worth millions.

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    @noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

    that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

    I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

    Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

    No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

    IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

    Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

    Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

    Man, 3 PS3s lying there alone without the company of a power and HDMI cable. Guess rats don't have any sympathy for their tech.

    I need to dig out my Hong Kong one actually as I bought a region locked blu-ray from there recently. Wonder where it is...

    PS3s were region locked as well?

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    @noob404 said:
    I am slowly loving AI content generation - video and images. Might be time to invest in a good home server for it. The Android box just isn't gonna cut it :lol:

    not even my rig, LLM consumes resources like crazy..... although i haven't tried any(yet) i believe it will completely mess up my thermal charts off the grid.

    It will. When I said, AI meant using APIs. Oh God no, I won't ever dare run them locally.

    I hope your "AI" isn't code for rats in a maze? You humans can be very cruel to a species with superior intellect, but just afflicted by overly small paws that make it difficult to fight back.

    But JUST YOU WAIT. If I find out you're holding rats captive, we will get revenge. Nibble your network cable or worse. And THEN you'll be sorry.

    No rats will be harmed in the making of my home server. Infact, I am ready for a compromise. I will make a rathouse just alongisde my server with unlimited cheese supply and Tom & Jerry 24/7 on a 5 inch screen such that they don't touch my server.

    I'm glad to hear that you plan to make a home for rats, but... Tom and Jerry? TOM? That well known serial killer? Forcing rats to watch that violence perpetrated against our mousey brethren is almost torture. Maybe you could consider screening Stuart Little or The Great Mouse Detective instead?

    Nah, we had a vote with the rats in my neghbourhood. They are T&J fans, they love how Jerry wins every time over Tom./

    Yeah, the stories resolve well, but you do have to take the "warning: contains mild peril" at the the start a LOT more seriously than "mild" would suggest.

    You get those warnings in the UK?

    Mild Peril is not something to be taken lightly. It's only one step away from Severe Peril and only a bit further still to Rat Tourture.

    Ah, For us, the shows began with no warnings.

    I hope all your young rats survived the mental trauma.

    Mental trauma? That was and is a stigma here and pretty much everywhere. Even if we have/had that, no way for us to know. Ignorance is bliss.

    I meant the trauma of suddenly seeing rat violence without any prior warning.

    Yah, I understood, I was talking in general, about how any mental trauma is taken in current society. You see, I got serious for a moment there, even though you were just joking :lol:

    Understandable. Us rats are always serious, so it's easy to miss our occasional jokes.

    Yah, everyone here would agree.

  • ralfralf Member

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    In the end, that is

    Expect the unexpected when we near Jan 31.

    It's coming near!!

    Yup, 19 days left. We have already been on the thread for almost 19 days now, ig.

    Yes, wow :O

    Can't remember, were you active on the BF thread?

    Only the rats were truly active in that cess pit of deals and giveaways.

    Guess, new year = new rats then

    2025 is the extra year of rat. Was supposed to be year of snake, but they got some bad press, so it was changed to another rat year.

    Ahh, I see. I do see the rat population doubling since new year. Good for them.

    Yah, soon, it's gonna be Hunger Games over here.

    That or Sweater Games.

    Sure. Whatever suffers from a want in the districts.

    District 14 is distinctly cold right now.

    Never read the novels or watched the movie. How many districts are there?

    We have extra subterranean districts where rats hang out. We only venture to the upper side for food.

    Ahh, gets tougher in winters. Now, I understand the intense demand for sweaters.

    Yeah, it's not like your sunny climates where it barely dips below 20 in winter. It's cold as here.

    We have temperatures around 8 C around December to Jan here as well.

    Man, that's so warm. It did get above freezing yesterday. I think it's 1 degree today.

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    In the end, that is

    Expect the unexpected when we near Jan 31.

    It's coming near!!

    Yup, 19 days left. We have already been on the thread for almost 19 days now, ig.

    Yes, wow :O

    Can't remember, were you active on the BF thread?

    Only the rats were truly active in that cess pit of deals and giveaways.

    Guess, new year = new rats then

    2025 is the extra year of rat. Was supposed to be year of snake, but they got some bad press, so it was changed to another rat year.

    Ahh, I see. I do see the rat population doubling since new year. Good for them.

    Yah, soon, it's gonna be Hunger Games over here.

    That or Sweater Games.

    Sure. Whatever suffers from a want in the districts.

    District 14 is distinctly cold right now.

    Never read the novels or watched the movie. How many districts are there?

    We have extra subterranean districts where rats hang out. We only venture to the upper side for food.

    Ahh, gets tougher in winters. Now, I understand the intense demand for sweaters.

    Yeah, it's not like your sunny climates where it barely dips below 20 in winter. It's cold as here.

    We have temperatures around 8 C around December to Jan here as well.

    Man, that's so warm. It did get above freezing yesterday. I think it's 1 degree today.

    That definitely is freezing cold. Got snow there?

  • ralfralf Member

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    @noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

    wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

    Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

    I usually gloss it over if it too much to read, i guess i should start using siri or gemini to summarize them moving forward, it's always a dart in arrow if something goes wrong and TnC says otherwise...

    Do you use any applications that actually might have some erroneous T&C that's gonna bite in the back in the future? BTW, always wondered, how these T&Cs work on Linux package manager based installations. Are they implicitly agreed to according to the license of the app?

    There is a legal defense if you never actually read the terms that you can't be bound by them. Sure it's possible to win both sides of that case though, so probably not worth trying out in court.

    Yah, heard people say they could always claim in a court that it was never them that agreed to the T&C.

    Yeah, I guess that's possible too. A lot of shop bought PCs in the past had Windows installed beyond where you agreed to the T&Cs, so that would have been plausible.

    Not sure if it still works. Read a long time ago on Reddit.

    If it was on Reddit, it is definitely true.

    I guess, it was on a legal advice sub iirc.

    All those guys start everything with "I ANAL". I guess they're proud of their deviances.

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  • ralfralf Member

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

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    @cainyxues said:
    I was too busy these days so what happening fellas

    Rat takeover/

    Woah there. Participation. We'd never dream of taking over. And if we did, we would be so obvious about it.

    Feel free to, btw.

    Even for the TV?

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    @noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

    wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

    Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

    I usually gloss it over if it too much to read, i guess i should start using siri or gemini to summarize them moving forward, it's always a dart in arrow if something goes wrong and TnC says otherwise...

    Do you use any applications that actually might have some erroneous T&C that's gonna bite in the back in the future? BTW, always wondered, how these T&Cs work on Linux package manager based installations. Are they implicitly agreed to according to the license of the app?

    There is a legal defense if you never actually read the terms that you can't be bound by them. Sure it's possible to win both sides of that case though, so probably not worth trying out in court.

    Yah, heard people say they could always claim in a court that it was never them that agreed to the T&C.

    Yeah, I guess that's possible too. A lot of shop bought PCs in the past had Windows installed beyond where you agreed to the T&Cs, so that would have been plausible.

    Not sure if it still works. Read a long time ago on Reddit.

    If it was on Reddit, it is definitely true.

    I guess, it was on a legal advice sub iirc.

    All those guys start everything with "I ANAL". I guess they're proud of their deviances.

    Ah, clever wordplay on "NAL" I guess. :lol:

  • ralfralf Member

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    @noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

    wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

    Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

    I remember some EULA once had small print near the bottom saying something like "if you've read this far e-mail ....... and I'll send you $1000" and apparently only 1 or 2 people ever contacted him out of 10s of thousands of people who agreed to the terms.

    Now, that's a good inspiration to actually go through the T&C. That would also actually work as a campaign promoting perusal of T&C.

    Sadly, most of them don't give you $1000 for reading them, just maybe a headache that needs $1000 of drugs to make go away.

    Makes sense. But, if someone were to run a campaign, even $10 would do great things.

    I'm not sure $10 is enough for me to read a complete EULA!

    I'd be more than happy with the $10.

    Barely worth getting out of bed for.
    Getting out of bed AND reading a EULA?
    Nooooooooooo thank you!

    Well, we got different standards for online free money, I guess.

    Free money = not working. Reading an EULA = working.

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    I was too busy these days so what happening fellas

    Rat takeover/

    Woah there. Participation. We'd never dream of taking over. And if we did, we would be so obvious about it.

    Feel free to, btw.

    Even for the TV?

    For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

  • ralfralf Member

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    btw many things seems to be happening here at let 🫠

    Pardon me, bro. Haven't had the time to look into the other threads a lot.

    Yeah, crunchbits have some giveaways where hoodies are an actual reality not just an empty promise.

    Sometimes, patience pays off.

    Or just a red D as your overlord instead of a purple D.

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    @noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

    wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

    Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

    I remember some EULA once had small print near the bottom saying something like "if you've read this far e-mail ....... and I'll send you $1000" and apparently only 1 or 2 people ever contacted him out of 10s of thousands of people who agreed to the terms.

    Now, that's a good inspiration to actually go through the T&C. That would also actually work as a campaign promoting perusal of T&C.

    Sadly, most of them don't give you $1000 for reading them, just maybe a headache that needs $1000 of drugs to make go away.

    Makes sense. But, if someone were to run a campaign, even $10 would do great things.

    I'm not sure $10 is enough for me to read a complete EULA!

    I'd be more than happy with the $10.

    Barely worth getting out of bed for.
    Getting out of bed AND reading a EULA?
    Nooooooooooo thank you!

    Well, we got different standards for online free money, I guess.

    Free money = not working. Reading an EULA = working.

    Right. But, it's not like they would have a questionnaire after the T&C to check if we actually went through it, if you catch my drift.

  • ralfralf Member

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    Most of us who have been active here on RackNerd threads have atleast one or two merch items at the very least to show for it. But, takes patience and fast fingers. @BlazinDimes is a colelctor.

    I'm the 12th most active guy here and I've got nothing to show for it. Not even a sweater.

    On the megathreads, I won so many giveaways, I haven't even logged into them all since running YABS.

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    @noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

    that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

    I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

    Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

    No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

    IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

    Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

    Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

    Man, 3 PS3s lying there alone without the company of a power and HDMI cable. Guess rats don't have any sympathy for their tech.

    4 PS3s. Although, I don't actually know where 3 of them are. Maybe in the loft.

    As a person who had to struggle readlly hard to even get one, it's just super sad for me.

    Sorry. I did have reasons. Having different regions was one of those reasons. Although it's super confusing having to switch between Japan/China/HK buttons and rest of the world button mappings.

  • ralfralf Member

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    @noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

    that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

    I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

    Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

    No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

    IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

    Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

    Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

    Man, 3 PS3s lying there alone without the company of a power and HDMI cable. Guess rats don't have any sympathy for their tech.

    I need to dig out my Hong Kong one actually as I bought a region locked blu-ray from there recently. Wonder where it is...

    PS3s were region locked as well?

    Games weren't but blu-rays and DVDs were still.

  • ralfralf Member

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    In the end, that is

    Expect the unexpected when we near Jan 31.

    It's coming near!!

    Yup, 19 days left. We have already been on the thread for almost 19 days now, ig.

    Yes, wow :O

    Can't remember, were you active on the BF thread?

    Only the rats were truly active in that cess pit of deals and giveaways.

    Guess, new year = new rats then

    2025 is the extra year of rat. Was supposed to be year of snake, but they got some bad press, so it was changed to another rat year.

    Ahh, I see. I do see the rat population doubling since new year. Good for them.

    Yah, soon, it's gonna be Hunger Games over here.

    That or Sweater Games.

    Sure. Whatever suffers from a want in the districts.

    District 14 is distinctly cold right now.

    Never read the novels or watched the movie. How many districts are there?

    We have extra subterranean districts where rats hang out. We only venture to the upper side for food.

    Ahh, gets tougher in winters. Now, I understand the intense demand for sweaters.

    Yeah, it's not like your sunny climates where it barely dips below 20 in winter. It's cold as here.

    We have temperatures around 8 C around December to Jan here as well.

    Man, that's so warm. It did get above freezing yesterday. I think it's 1 degree today.

    That definitely is freezing cold. Got snow there?

    We did last week, but this week it's not been wet enough for that, so we just had permanent frost instead.

  • ralfralf Member

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    @noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

    wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

    Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

    I usually gloss it over if it too much to read, i guess i should start using siri or gemini to summarize them moving forward, it's always a dart in arrow if something goes wrong and TnC says otherwise...

    Do you use any applications that actually might have some erroneous T&C that's gonna bite in the back in the future? BTW, always wondered, how these T&Cs work on Linux package manager based installations. Are they implicitly agreed to according to the license of the app?

    There is a legal defense if you never actually read the terms that you can't be bound by them. Sure it's possible to win both sides of that case though, so probably not worth trying out in court.

    Yah, heard people say they could always claim in a court that it was never them that agreed to the T&C.

    Yeah, I guess that's possible too. A lot of shop bought PCs in the past had Windows installed beyond where you agreed to the T&Cs, so that would have been plausible.

    Not sure if it still works. Read a long time ago on Reddit.

    If it was on Reddit, it is definitely true.

    I guess, it was on a legal advice sub iirc.

    All those guys start everything with "I ANAL". I guess they're proud of their deviances.

    Ah, clever wordplay on "NAL" I guess. :lol:

    What's a NAL?

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