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And yet, somehow, GOG and Itch still exist, allowing you to download games completely DRM-free, as often as you like. If they ever go out of business, you can still use your local copies forever.

How do they do it? A mystery...

You must first have the patent.

A while ago I wrote an extensible dummy data generator for Java.

I needed to fake some scientific data for a project at work and wasn't satisfied with how closed for modification existing data generation solutions were, so I decided to tackle writing a library on my own.

It was my first major contribution to open source and had some architectural challenges which were fun to solve, not to mention the learning experience :)

AFAIK, yes.

Isn't he only a CEO? What exactly did he himself create?

You're not "supposed to" upgrade every year, that's the point. You should be able to use a 5 year old phone if you want to.

So something like a Synology NAS, I guess.

You want a better Twitter? It's already here and it's called Mastodon.

I replayed it a month ago and still liked it.

I'm still waiting for a GOG release.

Solid engine costs extra. That's the entire point.

... And then spend twice or thrice the buying price fixing random things that break in a car that spends most of its time parked at the mechanic.

I don't know what web3 is doing there, but I imagine this is terrifying if you're doing IT for western companies in China.

So, as far as I understand, he was fined 3 years salary for doing the job he was hired to do (I consider using Google/Github as part of the job).

Utterly horrifying. Especially when you realize that merely accessing Google is illegal in China...

I'll be the first to say that I only begrudgingly accept Steam exists. However, I avoid using it and vastly prefer GOG due to the DRM-free nature of their store and the offline installers.

Just because the hate on Epic is vocal does not mean that everyone likes the Steam status quo.

Fair enough. Still, games used to be vastly cheaper in my country and the asking price for the basic version of Starfield is 80 USD. There is no way any game is worth this much of my income.

When will it release on GOG?

That's a very US-centric view, at best. I paid about 23 dollars for a brand new copy of Half-Life 2 in 2004.

Now release it on GOG, then I'll buy it.