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  • We haven't exactly reached this state because of some big, singular fluke nobody could have predicted, there hasn't been some asteroid impact or super volcano eruption that suddenly messed the planet up.
    Humanity as has known about the issues of pollution and climate change for over a hundred years, known how dire the situation has been for decades, and has still done mostly nothing productive to end up here.

    It would have taken a few generations of people all making massive changes willingly to fix this, but almost none of us did. I think we just can't care enough about the future when there is now and here to experience, and it's just finally the "find out" phase after the "fuck around".

  • You should buy "System Shock: Enhanced Edition", as the name implies, it's the newer better one!

    Seriously, why do we keep using the same names with reboots and remasters and remakes and argh. Languages have words, use the goddamn words!

  • Though many of the alternatives have rather poor software and support, and as you can't just load an iso meant for a raspi you have to do most stuff by yourself from scratch.

    As an example, I have home assistant running on both a Raspi and an Orange Pi board. One of them was a simple iso flash and is still supported and updated, the other took few days of tinkering to sort out and the newest Debian iso for it was uploaded in 2020.

    But if you know what you are doing, you can get great hardware for really cheap.

  • I'm sure they don't. Had they just gone with the "we can block your app for security reasons and want to see it first", they might have. But requiring long term active developer accounts (which has a yearly fee), preapproval, commission, payment per download etc, that isn't allowing sideloading at all, it's just an Apple app store in a trenchcoat.

  • 2000

    Reddit has over 2000 employees.

  • Ignoring why she ended up in the water, even standard car windows are extremely tough to break without tools. It's rather likely that without a safety hammer you just aren't going to.

  • Not a clue, but they did go from having 230 employees back in 2017 to 400 in 2018, 700 in 2021 to finally over 2000 in 2023.
    So they have to be doing something. ...right?

  • Because profit requires you to pay taxes. It's not uncommon at all for growing companies to invest and otherwise use up any profit they generate so the balance sheet stays negative while the company keeps growing in value.
    Also allows you to cry how those dirty 3rd party app developers are stealing all your profit boo hoo.

    When you look at the revenue growth of reddit, it's not hard to see that if they were able to function at all when they had a revenue 1/10th of what it's now, they could turn profit if they wanted to.

  • Stardew Valley was published by the developer themselves. He can do whatever he wants with the game and there is no publisher to tell him he can't because it's bad for business. If they want the next update to be the "Fuck Russia, fuck Israel, Taiwan is the real China!" update, they can do it. Cp2077 can do that too. Because they are independent.

    D'ya think that goes for the games in question of the article published by Warner Brothers that are being pulled by them? Are they independent of the publishers, free to do what the creator wants?

    That is why having just the two labels makes them rather useless. Which is the point I'm trying to make.

  • There are three known species of salt-water sea turtles that can cause this type of a death (chelonitoxism) - two of them are Vulnerable, one of them is Endangered.

  • Quite a few Tumblr refugees still I'd imagine. Shame mastodon and Lemmy weren't ready yet back then.

    Also twitter is still one of the biggest platforms for sharing art in general, if you want the large audience, you kinda have to be there.

  • An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher. ...The term is synonymous with that of independent music or independent film in those respective mediums. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_game

    And then:

    Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries

    An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies

    They are independent, because they don't have a publishing company calling the shots. That's literally where the term comes from.
    And that is why I said people have only two labels - they use "single person or small team = indie, big team or company = triple-A". When they should be looking at who is publishing, and therefore who is funding the project, i.e are they actually independent, or do they depend on someone else for that monetary/technical/marketing support.

  • On the other hand, Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 would actually classify as indie games, as they were published by their developer, not a third party.

    But when everything gets one of the two labels, triple-A or Indie, they stop being meaningful quite fast.

  • Afaik steam games are never removed from users, just delisted in the store so you can't buy them anymore.

  • Easy anticheat works on the Deck (but not as an all encompassing kernel level anticheat, obviously) but each developer has to tick a checkbox for it to ignore proton. That's why Apex Legends works but Fortnite does not, as Epic simply refuses to allow it to out of spite against Valve.

    Iirc BattlEye is the same. Maybe punkbuster, can't remember.

  • There's no need to have the tax be the exact same for every vehicle class. Proper long haul trucks have to be heavy, private cars do not.

    The US already has 8 or 10 different vehicle classes defined by weight, the lightest being 6000lbs (which is still ridiculously high, my VW Up is 2200lbs).

  • Iirc the only precedent we have is that the AI algorithm itself cannot hold the copyright to what it creates, as one artist wanted it to be. Basically the same thing as the famous monkey selfie.

    If the copyright of a generated image can be claimed by the creator of the algorithm, or the user who wrote the prompt, and how much human effort is required for it is still unknown.

  • In Finland we use:

    3:15 viisitoista yli kolme = fifteen over three.
    3:30 puoli neljä = half four.
    3:45 viisitoista vaille neljä = fifteen short of four.

    We also use 24 hour clocks but if the dinner is at 17:30, it will just be said to be at half six and you figure am/pm out of context - if it's ambiguous, we say "six in the morning / six in the evening".

  • Who wants to bet a dollar that he throws a temper tantrum about it and refuses to pay?