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I don’t think he has a track recording of thinking in general to be fair.

I think he spits actions and just takes whatever sticks. The dude bankrupted how many times now and is expected to be the master in resolving US trade?

I’m not the respondee but you may want to reread that post. they use the word mainly there to indicate most but not all. You are risking cherry picking the argument. By what I see it, the wording for “only exception” since the word mainly is used, would indicate that the only major exception would be, not the “only exception” would be.

That’s how I read it anyway.

regardless though, the entire theory is silly anyway, doing what the original article suggests would also send the world into a global recession and would be the a classic case of shooting your own foot in an attempt to harm the opponent.

ammendum/post addition: regardless of who owns it though, the outcome is still unlikely. For government it would be political suicide in democratic countries, and for private sector it would be a massive financial dumpster fire. I think finding alternative export/import partners is far more likely to happen than something of the scale the article posts

I’ve said this in the past but I think it’s worth restating. I’m amazed that EGS is willing to even front the cost of these free games. Like I would expect some form of arbitrary restriction like requiring periodic actual money purchase to be eligible. They have posted income reports that state the free program just isn’t working. Sure it’s increasing numbers, but that isn’t very helpful when your revenue is still decreasing ontop of the cost of the program. I mean it does help that its a flat cost and not a cost per install for them, but still.

for perspective: my last purchase was void train in super early stages of the game (2021 I think?) and prior to that was satisfactory somewhere around 2018 or 19. Meanwhile I have collected a lot of decent games from the program. And I’m one of the better cases. I have /tons/ of friends who have zero intention of ever actually buying anything on the shop, they only use it as a log in, claim the weekly freebie, log out or play the freebie game. Heck, there are programs that are dedicated exclusivley to log in as you, and claim the weekly freebies so you never even have to log onto the storefront. It isn’t a sustainable model.

I feel like they would be better off forcing an annual payment history check on the platform, something stupid small like “if total paid is > 5$” or something cheap, or even like how steam does it where once you purchase something once everything unlocks. From a financial/business mindset, I don’t get their intent on the current program. It only encourages people to grab games and never actually spend money on the sinkhole.

Fair, I have a handful of dev friends who I know don’t know “why” a command or script works, just that it does, so I guess that statement would likely help them.

this is honestly my biggest take on all of the alternative phone options.

Like I can see spending 500-1000 on a device that is already established and known to be good. 500-1000 on an enthusiast device is a bit of an ask.

If there was an alternative device that was somewhat in the consumer range for phones (so 50-250 range) I think it would go a lot better, but every alternative phone seems to focus on flagship series price ranges for devices, and for a project that may or may not take off that’s not a good objective.

Not the person you asked the question to but, for me it was dogshit music selection. I dislike radio music, my forte of music is almost exclusivley EDM based. Spotifies selection for glitchstep/dubstep/chillstep was a joke when i was looking into it. Plus I heavily disliked their leaning into requiring an account to even listen.

No, I was curious about it so I looked it up, it’s a secondary first party terminal app it seems, I was wondering as well cause I didn’t see how the system could even function without it. Powershell and Command Prompt are still available it’s just terminal has the ability to merge them into one app it seems.

I love the warning note

Sudo for Windows can be used as a potential escalation of privilege vector when enabled in certain configurations. You should make sure to be aware of the security considerations when enabling the sudo command on your machine.

What do you mean a master-key/privilege escalation tool can cause a privilege escalation vulnerability, who knew 😂

Most chromebooks can be put into a dev mode(which requires factory reset…) in order to install a new OS on it. I have done it a few times.

being said, with how low power they are, they can’t really do much but what chromeos can do.

I just need a spare weekend or two to make the swap now and throw wine on it for the games I play that refuse to run on Linux.

if your primary storefront is via steam, you likely won’t even need to manage wine, steam will do that for you as part of the install process. You can use something like protonup or something to get GE editions of proton but, honestly it mostly works right off the gate.

Just be aware that proton can have conflicts if you try to use it on NTFS drives, you’ll need to manually specify UID and GID for the drive (via fstab or however you manage mounting drives) or you’ll get permission errors that won’t actually say what they are unless you ran steam via the terminal.

While he says that Instabridge is in a “difficult position,” he thinks that open sourcing Nova “has to be a component” of helping rebuild trust with the community:

Yea, I bet it is a difficult situation, wanting to add advertisements and trackers to an app you didn’t develop while trying to skirt out of a public commitment for going open source, an act that would allow people to completely undo your efforts for ads and trackers. I can see why they don’t want to open source it.

For context that is paraquoting Barry(the ex-dev that left) talking about instabridge and open sourcing it. the full quote is in the post.

Even if this does end up being a good thing, it’s too far too late. Considering that they’ve been without a maintainer for over two years now, I jumped ship.

Without reading the article, I don’t think what meta says regarding it really appropriately reflects VR development. my personal opinion on the matter with their virtual reality can take off or not is that at the current technology no it won’t. I have an index. I’ve touched it a handful of times. It’s too annoying in its current state to ever want to go through the effort of using it.

It’s a big bulky item that you have to put on your head and you’re required to have lighthouses/cameras around your room to use it, all for something that is cool, but doesn’t match human capability so you risk motion sickness.

If a company ever manages to go through with what they’re attempting to do, and make a glasses version of it, Without the need of it being all bulky and the ability to wirelessly communicate with the system, I can see it taking off quite well. But out of currently available hardware, nothing like that really exists. Either is a standalone system that can’t communicate with your primary hardware or lacks the capability of properly doing it.

nah that’s a separate department and they deliberately keep that book as far away from the overall study as possible.

man that sucks.

is datacenter ram really not usable on personal PC’s? I figured it was the same as consumer ram but with ECC features, but I haven’t gone out of my way to try and buy any.

I don’t use twitter either, its blocked by choice on my DNS blocker but, the majority on the platform are not a pedo, regardless of the owners of it. It’s still really the only valid mainstream option for content creators. Do you have a better option? Because I know bsky or lemmy sure as hell aint going to get the job done for them (they have already tried that and went back due to lack of usage.)

its a circle, creators aren’t going to leave the platform because consumers are there, consumers aren’t going to leave because creators are there. The only real hope of that changing is either twitter screwing up so hard that they can’t stay, or a superior alternative being made that allows both the creator and the viewer to leave at once, so far bsky has come to be the closest but has still fallen short.

edit: changed tone and wording to be less aggressive.

In the case of content creators, you go where your audience goes. Almost all of the content creators I watch went back to twitter and almost exclusively post only live notices and social updates. I don’t have one that has a good opinion of the platform but, there’s a much larger audience there so therefore they stay.

Visibility is everything, and there are many steps between following you off the platform and not engaging with your stuff. Many will not follow a creator to an alternative platform if it means having to juggle an additional network, they will just let that creator fall out of their interest group.

I know for a fact I wouldn’t be on lemmy if I still used reddit, so any content creator I followed there I dropped. It is too annoying having to juggle multiple social media platforms.

Wait did this actually happen?

I just had to look it up, that’s actually really funny as a way to try and hide latency issues. this won’t work well with bad networks though, I could see 1 or 2 frames being delayed or missing but, that’s still a funny way of trying to fix an issue that is a pipeline problem.

Yea, its a big reason why I try to avoid FE like the plauge! As soon as you learn what everyone is using, everyone is using something else, or its going through a major rework that changes everything.