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  • @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @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?

    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?

    Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

  • @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

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    @ralf said:

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    @TrK said:

    @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.

    "Are you asleep? (Y/N)"

    It's a trick question though, you have to let it time out.

  • @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    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.

    I don't know what else to tell you. I have tried to motivate you, but, I quit.

  • @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @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.

    Oh ok. That's justifiable.

  • @ralf said:

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    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @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.

    Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

  • Oh wow. I only need 14 more shitposts now to be ahead of Herr Lina

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    @DeusVult said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @DeusVult said:
    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.

    Oh, permanent frost is another weather phenomenon I keep forgetting about.

  • @ralf said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @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?

    Not sure if you are joking with the "a" before NAL. Anyways, on the Indian legal advice sub, they use "NAL" - Not a lawyer.

  • @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    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.

    I don't know what else to tell you. I have tried to motivate you, but, I quit.

    That was meant to be motivating?

    Rats may be fast, but our fingers are too small to click the rat button as quickly as you humans.

  • @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @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?

    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?

    Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

    BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

  • @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

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    @TrK said:

    @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.

    "Are you asleep? (Y/N)"

    It's a trick question though, you have to let it time out.

    Why not just choose N?

  • @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

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    @TrK said:

    @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.

    Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

    In that case, yes, games are unlocked across every region. Although not all digital titles were available in every region on the play store.

  • @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @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.

    Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

    In that case, yes, games are unlocked across every region. Although not all digital titles were available in every region on the play store.

    Back in the PS3 era, I was big into physical media. Even now, I'd prefer them given the new policies these game studios keep coming up with.

  • @noob404 said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @DeusVult said:
    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.

    Oh, permanent frost is another weather phenomenon I keep forgetting about.

    You are in the land of permanent sun.

    Actually, I've never been to India. It seems like it'd be very interesting. Lots of cool stuff to see, but also so many people, I imagine it's hard not to feel a bit claustrophobic.

  • @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

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    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @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?

    Not sure if you are joking with the "a" before NAL. Anyways, on the Indian legal advice sub, they use "NAL" - Not a lawyer.

    Hehe, yeah it was a little bit of a joke.

    So, it actually means the same as the original that I turned into a joke. "IANAL" is "I am not a lawyer".

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    @DeusVult said:

    @noob404 said:

    @DeusVult said:

    @noob404 said:

    @DeusVult said:
    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.

    Oh, permanent frost is another weather phenomenon I keep forgetting about.

    You are in the land of permanent sun.

    Actually, I've never been to India. It seems like it'd be very interesting. Lots of cool stuff to see, but also so many people, I imagine it's hard not to feel a bit claustrophobic.

    Depends on where you are. In a metro city, yes, you are never actually alone. But, in the countrysides, you have fresh air (mostly), great environment, awesome people.

  • ralfralf Member
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    @noob404 said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @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?

    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?

    Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

    BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

    It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

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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?

    Not sure if you are joking with the "a" before NAL. Anyways, on the Indian legal advice sub, they use "NAL" - Not a lawyer.

    Hehe, yeah it was a little bit of a joke.

    So, it actually means the same as the original that I turned into a joke. "IANAL" is "I am not a lawyer".

    Yah, Indians love to shorten abbreviations, I guess. Glad that they decided to take the A at the beginning off as well.

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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.

    "Are you asleep? (Y/N)"

    It's a trick question though, you have to let it time out.

    Why not just choose N?

    If you've chosen "not asleep", it means you didn't read the EULA.

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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?

    Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

    BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

    It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

    No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising. :lol:
    But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

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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.

    "Are you asleep? (Y/N)"

    It's a trick question though, you have to let it time out.

    Why not just choose N?

    If you've chosen "not asleep", it means you didn't read the EULA.

    Oh, joking again? Didn't get it the first time. Man, that's clever though.

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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.

    Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

    In that case, yes, games are unlocked across every region. Although not all digital titles were available in every region on the play store.

    Back in the PS3 era, I was big into physical media. Even now, I'd prefer them given the new policies these game studios keep coming up with.

    Yeah, me to. I've got a massive pile of games on disc, and I think I've only bought 2 games digitally. Most of the digital games I got from the play store plus thing. Then I realised I was still playing for it but hadn't turned a PS3 on for over a year, so I cancelled it and presumably I've lost them all now. Oh, and I have steam games on the PC, but they feel a bit more real.

  • Ayeeee congrats

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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.

    "Are you asleep? (Y/N)"

    It's a trick question though, you have to let it time out.

    Why not just choose N?

    If you've chosen "not asleep", it means you didn't read the EULA.

    Oh, joking again? Didn't get it the first time. Man, that's clever though.

    Lol

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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.

    Oh, permanent frost is another weather phenomenon I keep forgetting about.

    You are in the land of permanent sun.

    Actually, I've never been to India. It seems like it'd be very interesting. Lots of cool stuff to see, but also so many people, I imagine it's hard not to feel a bit claustrophobic.

    Depends on where you are. In a metro city, yes, you are never actually alone. But, in the countrysides, you have fresh air (mostly), great environment, awesome people.

    Oh really? I just imagined that even rural towns would be pretty busy too. But I guess actual countryside would be nice.

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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?

    Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

    BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

    It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

    No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising. :lol:
    But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

    He's just trolling

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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.

    Oh, permanent frost is another weather phenomenon I keep forgetting about.

    You are in the land of permanent sun.

    Actually, I've never been to India. It seems like it'd be very interesting. Lots of cool stuff to see, but also so many people, I imagine it's hard not to feel a bit claustrophobic.

    Same!

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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.

    Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

    In that case, yes, games are unlocked across every region. Although not all digital titles were available in every region on the play store.

    Back in the PS3 era, I was big into physical media. Even now, I'd prefer them given the new policies these game studios keep coming up with.

    Digital games suck, honestly..

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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?

    Not sure if you are joking with the "a" before NAL. Anyways, on the Indian legal advice sub, they use "NAL" - Not a lawyer.

    Hehe, yeah it was a little bit of a joke.

    So, it actually means the same as the original that I turned into a joke. "IANAL" is "I am not a lawyer".

    Yah, Indians love to shorten abbreviations, I guess. Glad that they decided to take the A at the beginning off as well.

    Haha yeah. Although I also heard there are plenty of Indian names that sound like Anal, so there's still plenty of opportunity for jokes I guess.

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