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Some Retailers Are Refusing to Sell GTA 6 Due to the Lack of a Disc

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I see you were also traumatized by the floppy release. Lol

I had pre-ordered the CD release from Babbage's, and went to pick that up. Being that I was only 15, I had to get a ride, and it was also 45 min each way, so this wasn't exactly easy for me.

When I got home, I still hadn't realized they gave me the wrong one and cracked it open to see the horror. Said screw it, I wasn't going to be able to go back anytime soon and installed it for the next hour or more.

Luckily, because this was pre-activation key (we remember those days, right? ... right??), when I took it back, they apologized and gave me the right one without much problem.

Only installed once from 14 floppies, but it still was terrible.

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Worth it

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I get why you hate it, especially when people put everyone in the To:, but you know what's worse? Trying to have a conversation across multiple groups of people, and one person in the thread using Reply so it cuts everyone else out. There's a reason Reply All is a default. Email is a tool that 90% use poorly.

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Companies adding AI chatbots be like

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The AI at the Taco Bell drive thru actually was really helpful. Normally it took placing my order, paying and getting my food, and then getting home and eating it to regret my life decisions. The AI made sure I skipped right to regret before the actual person took over. This is the future.

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You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website.

Hilariously, I bet it's because their Active Directory domain is the same as their public domain, and it becomes a massive pain in the ass to hostname the root domain. Yes, externally you can do it just fine, but then it's not consistent internally on their private network.

One solution is you run IIS (or any other web server) purely as a permanent redirect for the internal host, but it would then need to run on each domain controller which brings its own set of issues.