these pieces of hardware are generally analyzed and reimplemented rather than copied

This process is known as clean room design if anyone wants to do more reading about this

Yeah I’m seriously not seeing any issue here (at least for the image generation part), when you ask it for ‘pro-anorexia’ stuff, it’s gonna give you exactly what you asked for

Not problematic as long as you don’t go around eating electronics

Apparently the statute of limitations is 3 years for copyright infringement (source), I’m surprised it wasn’t thrown out on that alone (but I’m not a lawyer)

BMWs aren’t exactly known for being big though, they’re mostly sports cars

It is one now

The article was written in May

The term has actually been rolling around for a few weeks, it’s just used to describe Lemmy and Kbin, since they’re based around threads instead of twitter-like posts. Nothing to do with Threads by Meta

In California, I’ll see them running across the street sometimes. There’s a lot of forests in my area and sometimes deer will wander out of them and into the neighborhoods

Maybe !spotted will work? If that doesn’t, this should

Probably Minecraft, Skyrim, or another game with good mod support from the community. I’d never get bored

Oh god I cannot imagine playing it in VR, it’s already scary enough on a normal screen

Hades, which is also made by Supergiant, is also fantastic. It’s a great intro to the roguelite genre. I’ve also heard that their first game, Bastion, is great too, but I haven’t played it

Half life is another one of those series like Portal that I feel like everyone is required to play at some point

Ooh, sweet, sounds like fun! I loved Supreme Commander, definitely trying this out

Win+V opens up your clipboard history so you don’t have to switch tabs in the emoji picker

As much as it looks tacky, I kinda dig it

You don’t have to write a short essay, I didn’t write much more than “I heard about you on reddit and I wanna check it out” and I got accepted