I hate Google as much as anybody else, but that Google has been ordered to open up when they already allow side loading, and Apple is apparently all good, is all you need to know this whole system is a joke.
"Shhh! Don't tell the students that letting them make a note card is actually tricking them into studying! SHHH!"
I RECOMMEND EVERYBODY LOVES HYPNOTOAD. IT IS A GREAT SHOW.
ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD.
Obligatory XKCD
What if you're pirating to avoid agreeing to an EULA that lets a giant corporation murder your family members?
RFK Jr: "This is a cool story, right? People will think I'm cool?"
Brain Worm: "Yes! Yes! And tell them about the bear!"
You're humanizing him too much.
He's a known teetotaler. He's sitting there fuming and sober, eating well-done steak with ketchup.
"I like Eastern Europe as a whole because corruption is far more accessible," Tate said. "I find it offensive that a police officer in England will stop me and refuse to take a bribe."
Bet you're missing that guarantee of a speedy trial, huh?
This is some pro level trolling. She's gonna give some of them aneurisms.
Specifically thinking about The Little Match Girl and To Build a Fire
The Home Depot employees watching me steal an entire self-sufficient off-grid home one wheelbarrow load at a time.
Good point.
"Me writing a script that looks for my obituary, and when it finds it, sends memes from my account to my friends, until one of the random memes is a webp, python starts throwing errors in an infinite loop, it doesn't properly reset the timer because I had that inside the try block, and the whole system crashes from an error log file eating all the hard disk space 2 days later."
Software gets more expensive over time when you write it like spaghetti coded crap in a "move fast and break things" environment where you build so much technical debt that you can't touch anything without breaking 5 other things, and suddenly even simple changes take hundreds of developer hours, which you don't have because half your team is fighting bugs.
Luckily all of our most critical services run on well-developed platforms that get the time and resources they need to be durable and maintainable over time. (biggest /s I've ever written)