@aoife *immediately passes out*
@pup_hime apparently droid would be the more used term but apparently george lucas (yes that george lucas) managed to successfully sue for rights to that word, even after it was used originally by Frank Herbert in his story, Dune.
That's right.
Despite prior use, lucas sued, AND WON, the right to use the term, stealing it from a writer who used the term before him.
Even Google stepped back from calling their OS "Droid" because of that lawsuit :/
heh: "I’m begging everyone who thinks a software license can delineate when something is or isn’t being used for a bad purpose to read a single book on ethics."
https://ideolalia.com/essays/trapped-in-the-technologist-factory.html#fnref:license
@heatherhorns will be? or will HAVE been? ;3 *gets in the time machine*
@codl Konqi and Katie went on a quest and slew Kandalf to protect the KDE Cinematic Universe
@pisscotheque god forbid the poor bastard fireman has been saving lives all day and just has not had time to clean the fire engine and just needs to rest from a 20 hours shift
@monorail :3
@Dee what if you wanna back em up maybe you burn em to a DVD or something
@Kaffe@glaceon.social samesame. Also like if glass breaks you can still make cool stuff outta it, melt it down, or grind off bits to make nice smooth fragments that are safe to handle and can be decorated, or glue it back together with metal or even just glue or whatever and it'll still look cool.
...can't do shit with plastic tho :/
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.