It’s low as a percentage of total packages, but some areas are worse than others. For instance, in San Francisco it’s necessary to leave the trunk of your car open overnight so professional thieves don’t break your window to check it.

Most of what they deliver isn’t worth stealing. If they continue trying to take over the high end courier business, though, I doubt they’ll last long.

Because they’re using an inherently insecure delivery service for expensive electronics. Extremely clear case of negligence.

If you don’t have a Micro Center nearby there’s really not a good choice. Just do Newegg or Amazon and hope for the best.

The cops definitely won’t do anything, but the paperwork can be useful if Best Buy decides to be worse than usual about it.

Tipping used to be discouraged in the US since it promoted class divisions. Then the civil war happened and there weren’t any slaves anymore and all of a sudden tipping is the greatest thing ever.

You used to be able to require a signature which would force a direct hand-off, but people got annoyed with it. Then drivers started skipping those deliveries to get through their shift faster. So now only expensive courier services and the postal service still really do it.

One of the theories behind this game’s price is Microsoft is trying to force more people onto the premium game pass.

So if we assume the world is a magical place where poor people don’t exist, it makes perfect sense.

The idea of a puzzle rougelike is intriguing.

Regex in a nutshell.

I think it’s a bit hilarious that touching the camera is considered such a hassle now. When I learned photography we had to finish the reel and spend a day in a darkroom before we could see the final product.

Still, I hope someone makes some open source software for you. More convenience is always better.

Apparently not anymore.

That doesn’t help if someone got a list of their hashes somehow. Then an attacker can use their own system to crack them.

And that’s if they aren’t just storing the passwords as clear text to begin with, which length limitations are often a sign of.

That sounds like the limitations of an ancient mainframe system. If so, then someone trying to brute force their way in would be more likely to crash the system instead.

What else does Game Freak even make?

It’s not meant to be a rote memorization game. That sort of feature is meant to enhance the true point of the game.

A game they make for children, btw.

Unfortunately, at least in the US (and from the sound of it, probably Japan), the patent office has the viewpoint of ‘patent everything and let the courts sort them out.’ The courts, on the other hand, defer to the patent office because ‘it’s they’re job so they must know what they’re doing.’

That’s probably Richard Garfield’s fault for setting precedent with his collectable card game patent.

Yeah, proprietary software are the worst offenders.