Any answer would be hypothetical by definition… Not sure what’s your point there.

You were the one who quoted that wage theft is a form or fraud, so I’m not sure what’s your point. Yes, some theft can be fraud… but still theft.

Stealing services doesn’t necessarily have to do with copyright infringement.

My point is that OP over simplification of theft is not even worth considering, from a legal or personal point of view.

So salary theft by employers is not really theft. Got it.

The gang solved the Argentinian inflation… music starts

I understand, but my point is why people are being so judgmental and prejudice about it? Maybe that’s her actual working laptop, I’ve seen companies indulging their best workers with stuff like that.

Even if it’s an odd choice to bring to court, it’s still just a laptop, it’s not like she decided to go to court in bermudas.

Well do you know if that lady bought it only for use in court?

Jesus, people drawing conclusions from a still image. It could have been a gift? Maybe it’s not even her laptop? Maybe she has so much money that she wanted it for the rgb? Maybe she does video editing as a hobbie? Maybe she uses it for traveling for gaming and work, because NOONE brings one laptop for gaming and one for work when travelling.

Tell me more about what she does after work is over, you seem to know…

Lots of people use their “gaming” laptops as working stations. I barely use mine for playing, but I like to have a big screen with full keyboard and a nice GPU for my work, and something I can take with me if needed, for example for a long work trip. I also have a smaller laptop for things on the go.

I’m sorry, what? A pregnant woman can’t leave the state without husband’s permission? Also, what happens if she’s a single mum, or she’s not married? Or a widow or husband is deployed… I mean… what?

Yeah, but that piece of software didn’t came up to existence out of nowhere. Someone invested time, or paid for infrastructure to complete it. When you steal electricity, most of the cost is because of the infrastructure you used, which you will never own anyway.

I agree information should be free, as long as the generator of that information agrees with it.

Saying that, I still pirate things, not because I think I’m entitled to do it, that’s a very poor excuse.

In South America too. Professorors provide PDFs and in my time even photocopies of the relevant chapters.

I’m guessing he means in engineering (excluding computational). I’m a chemical engineer, and yes, MATLAB is everywhere, only few know about Octave, and python is used mostly for personal projects, I’ve never seen it in an industrial environment, apart maybe web base user interfaces, but don’t get me started with LabVIEW.

I hear that everywhere in here, but it doesn’t make any sense. Do you own the electricity network? Do you own the maid that clean your house? Do you own the room in the hotel? Is it justified not to pay for those services?

Only until very recently LibreOffice is almost on par with Microsoft Office. 10 years ago OpenOffice was horrible, I tried my best to use it but unless you were using it only to write letters to your city hall, it was unusable.

I’ll do it for free if all expenses are paid for me to go to the Olympics. I look like a fool every day, one more day won’t make a difference.

I was also on your boat, until I read this… Take into account this was published before Threads was official. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

And believe it or not, part of this is because people don’t like to pick up the weird looking tomato, or the banana with a few peckles.

9gag… That’s a word I haven’t seen in a long time.

Reddit will stay, heck Digg if still around. It won’t be the same though.

I actually think the opposite. Reddit is here to stay, sure. But Lemmy will become a more niche space and with better quality for those interested, but not necessarily mainstream, and that’s ok.

I wish that was the only thing. I work in science/engineering and lots of software that control equipment are only windows.

There are options like using virtual machines, but it’s way to cumbersome and prone to errors, you don’t want a measurement that took half a day get ruined because of a stupid communication error.