The answer to questions like these is always money.

The biggest news here is that semiconductor production is amping up in the states, which is good for national security and reduces reliance on Taiwan.

Yeah, and you can install extensions even if they’re not on Mozilla’s addon store.

They can either lose the Russian market entirely or capitulate to this demand, I think it’s pretty obvious what they’re going to choose. Mozilla may be an NPO but it still needs revenue to survive.

I know this is an older article, but EAC has had compatibility with Linux for years at this point. Linux is also really easy to compile and develop for compared to MacOS. They just don’t want to because there aren’t enough players to justify the cost, most likely. Also might have some incentive to keep their game off the hardware of their biggest competitor.

Calling into United:

Hey I see you charged me $400 for a replacement screen? Tell me, where did you buy the targeted ad data you used to display ads on that screen? Oh, an agency that I signed terms and conditions for at some point? Shit, alright then.

I mean, fuck United tho and they will not be getting and damn money from me.

I mean AI bullshit like Copilot being added to Windows then quietly paywalled, ridiculous products like the Rabbit R1, and the arms race involving products that aren’t ready for market or produced ethically. LLMs still just make shit up a lot of the time.

Yes. Tech is a hype-based sector where the actual value of products is obfuscated by marketing. When the AI craze settles down, hopefully we’ll stop seeing it injected into everything.

I would try using Lynx launcher and adding a full-screen widget for news if you want something more feature-rich.

Minecraft is the most popular video game to ever exist in human history and someone thinks that is an easy market to capitalize on.

I get that, but that’s just the vibe Valve has to me.

Gotta love that last box, nothing like being reminded that our bodies are being poisoned by corporations and there’s literally no way to escape it besides death.

I really feel like this won’t/can’t be enforced.

For me it’s:

• Strategy games are extremely meta-focused
• You always feel like you’re playing sub-optimally if you don’t know the exact right move
• They typically require a lot of time and energy that I just don’t have
• They require long, focused sessions that could be better spent doing anything else
• No one I know is playing them so it sucks as a social activity
• They have less “high moments” compared to other games

Could never get into strategy games except for mobile ones that I would play on long road trips or something.

I’ve only really played New Vegas extensively, but I think the biggest thing to remember is that when you’re familiar with these western-style RPGs, they seem like they have a bottomless well of content because you know how and where to find quests and such. When these games are new, you have to find content for the first time, and if you’re not sure where to look then it becomes frustrating and boring.

New Vegas is better at this than most fallout games because once you have a quest it often leads to a sequence of other quests. in FO3, half the game is just finding stuff to do. Never played 4 or 76. No one plays FO1 or FO2 anymore but they sometimes suffer from similar issues, especially FO1.

Build variety in these games comes more from the perks, skill pts, and SPECIAL stats you choose. They’re not quite as visual as the different classes in Skyrim, but they certainly do much different things.

Isn’t there evidence that as artificial CSAM is made more available, the actual amount of abuse is reduced? I would research this but I’m at work.

Seems good for industry and bad for the actual populous, considering things like this can still happen lol.

I tried KF2 for a while and really couldn’t get into it. The game just lacks replayability in my opinion. Trying different perks, maps, difficulties, etc. really didn’t resonate with me because I felt like I was doing basically the same thing, just kiting around enemies in a predictable loop. There was a serious absence of memorable moments, unlike with other horde shooters like l4d and even b4b. Sunk a few dozen hours into it and it kinda feels like a waste in hindsight, never really enjoyed it and spent the whole time trying to.

Hot take! I think it’s bad when anyone does it, not just China. Crazy, I know lol. I understand that these are the things that come with running a country but that doesn’t mean they are ethical, or even the only options.

Thank you for validating the fact that I am pointing out real things that are actually happening and not just saying “nuh uh” like others have been doing.

You come to my store to buy something, you hand me the bill, I take it and don’t give you anything in return.

Video cameras. Also the shopkeep develops a reputation and is easily identifiable.

Most scams are done irl with FIAT,

Technically the truth, but a MUCH larger percentage of the crypto ecosystem is devoted to scams. I don’t think that is just “growing pains”, the design of crypto, again, incentivizes this behavior because it gives victims no recourse.

at the end of the day you can’t protect everyone from everything, especially from their own gullibility.

Yes, but gullibility is the #1 problem and again, crypto has no safeguards or recourse.

For some people complete control over their money is a plus

Control but only within the system and ruleset that is made by those who control the chain. If institutions leverage their power in the space in a mass-adoption scenario, then they will be the ones making these rules and controlling what you can do, and the rigidity of crypto’s rules advantage them in that case, no the consumer.