UserBenchmark is a joke. They aren't just biased in a normal way, but rather they have an obsession on AMD and throw lots of weird insults like this.
EU is way too large of a market to "lock out." Didn't happen with Apple, for example.
For subscription hell, we're deeper into it than is healthy, but I don't expect it to take over because of this. Steam, which is the biggest, most profitable platform out there doesn't even offer a subscription and shouldn't be hurt by this. For competitors, trying to suddenly force everyone into a subscription would lose a lot of business.
Edit: Anyway, doing nothing about it is a guaranteed bad outcome.
It's not supposed to be a finished law at this point. The main take from the initiative is that digital games have a massive issue with anti-consumer practices, and that consumers demand something to be done about it.
How would this exactly backfire in your view?
Most of HMD's efforts, like that "repairable" phone are a joke. I'm not particularly impressed with this either, but it seems that the pogo pins provide standard USB, which could enable some fun hacks.
This looks more like classic spambots than AI.
Nice going. Maybe EU can beat some sense into digital "ownership".
The thought was that it'd be closer to that, than the 12 times larger suggestion.
And yeah, I was definitely only taking hosting costs into account, because every instance is maintained by volunteers. I was also only thinking about large instances that benefit from economies scale and smarter management.
I took a quick glance at that thread, will have a more thorough pass later.
I mean, I haven't seen a "Giga Train" before. Maybe it is the world's first.
Well, at this point I would like to point out that I religiously avoid paying anything to hostile services, and that I do support the small independent instance I'm on.
Well, I guess it's priorities. Destroying Big Tech would be pretty nice, but I'm really just here for the community.
I actually kind of enjoy the "scrappy diy effort niche" thing.
Community for technical art - shaders, modeling, rigging, etc.
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I know I created two new communities almost in a row, but this is a cool topic.
Bring your PlayStations and Dreamcasts.
This community is about generic technical and graphics stuff, roughly focusing on old (3D) game consoles.
Links:
I used to practice this art actively.
Links:
I made a simple timer app for Android, desktop, and browser. I think it's ready for most part, and I'm starting to look into publishing it.
I decided to start with Android / Play Store, which immediately gives me a roadblock. Google Play Console says:
I want to look into F-Droid and Flathub once I have this sorted out. But before that, any opinions on the app, or volunteers for testing, as I don't have 20 friends to ask?
Thanks.
https://github.com/sevonj/visualtimer/
Edit: Let's try Play store again with this: https://groups.google.com/g/jyl-test-group
Edit 2: It works, at least someone besides me was able to join:
What a pain. I'll look into preparing an F-droid release as soon as I have time.
I was going to make a post about my toothbrush to this community, but apparently there isn't one anywhere. I could just find two dead ones at lemmy.ml with 1 and 3 subscribers.
Given how tech and privacy oriented lemmy userbase is, it's absence was a bit surprising.
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Edit: Fixed links, thanks. Added pic.
