some home nas can also be budget friendly… or some vps, where you can start small and scale up on-the-fly when you need it.

it is not helping him now, so at least he will be familiar with that feeling 😂

when did you last check where your flash 8 installer is?

i think people would be more likely to see some kind of scam and just shut the door today. maybe if you are in some kind of uniform it helps, but lets admit it, the whole exchange less for more principle of the game is suspicious from the beginning 😆

we did the same, but that was 30 years ago, i wonder how that game translates to today’s world. probably not very well.

Not limited to any specific jurisdiction, just want to know what happens in general.

what would happen is, in general, all about the specific jurisdiction. in my country, downloading anything is not illegal, what can be illegal is sharing stuff you don’t own.

so in your case, nothing would happen, not because of the pirated content. (i mean if they really wanted to get you and all they had to work with would be your disney collection, they would probably try to prove you shared/sold it).

i am not native speaker as well, so it is sometimes hard to judge the nuances. in the old days of the internet there was a saying “be conservative in what you say and liberal in what you hear”. so maybe do that. or don’t care at all and just move on 🤷‍♂️ sorry i don’t have anything better.

To me it still literally means Shut The Fuck Up, and whenever I see it, my immediate reaction is that the person on the other end actually meant it exactly as rude as I have always perceived it all my life.

even if they does it mean exactly as rude as you perceive it, does it really matter? you will never be liked by everyone. so if it is situation where you can just shrug your shoulders and leave, it may be time to do it and don’t take it too personally. the person on the other side can be 7 years old. if it happened in real life, would you spend time discussing with him?

if you see a person with a sign about the end of the world coming tomorrow looking moderately insane on the street, in real life - do you go to them and try to convince them they are not right, or do you just shrug your shoulders and move on with your life? and why do we often act differently online?

to be clear i am not trying to be holier-than-thou here, i’ve been guilty of exactly this many times myself, but it is at least useful to be aware of this in retrospect.

one billion kilograms has the same problem - it is ambiguous, because you have to guess whether you are using short or long scale.

you could say million tonnes, but ton is not SI unit and is again ambiguous, because there is many different tonnes.

correct presentation that isn’t open to interpretation is 1 x 10⁹ kilograms.

Why did he pay? Or does the hotel have access to his card and can charge whatever they wish at will?

I assume you mean one octillion of femtograms?

meters for horizontal distances, such as

not really. distance is measured in (nautical) miles, speed in knots (1 knot is 1 nautical mile per hour)

this you? https://lemmy.zip/u/Aku@lemm.ee

it should, as long as the post was synchronized in the past…

https://lemmy.zip/c/meta@lemm.ee

seekms your username was different on lemm.ee:

https://lemmy.zip/u/WhyJiffie@lemm.ee