Man, I already had a hard time justifying my YouTube Premium subscription. I literally only have it for putting on stuff to sleep to on my TV without some ad telling me Mr. Beast wants to give me $10,000 if i click.

But the worse this gets, the more I feel like an asshole for giving them a dime.

I am supporting myself fine and I don't want kids because I'd have to sacrifice the quality of life I'm living now. I couldn't maintain my current quality of life financially with a kid even if time weren't an issue.

The user never had much choice to begin with. If I write a program using version 1.2.3 of a library, then my application is going to need version 1.2.3 installed. But how the user gets 1.2.3 depends on their system, and in some cases, they might be entirely unable unless they grab a flatpak or appimage. I suppose it limits the ability to write shims over those libraries if you want to customize something at that level, but that's a niche use-case that many people aren't going to need.

In a static linked application, you can largely just ship your application and it will just work. You don't need to fuss about the user installing all the dependencies at the system level, and your application can be prone to less user problems as a result.

https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU?si=72Z4ZIM2N5BZydGM

No, copyright systems really are just that stupid if they want to avoid liability.

this is the hardest i've ever snorted. my colon actually hurts a little now

It just looks like every other Bethesda start screen.

but being able to cache locally and have that information persistent between uses dramatically drops the initial page load time.

This is already 100% possible through standard web methods. Heck, the web browsers often do resource caching for you.

Oh man, if you gave a programmer minified C code with no comments, whitespace, or newlines in printed paper, they'd probably charge more than your lawyer to read that shit.

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So basically, they're not even using it to stop kids from buying games, just as verification when a kid signs up for a service. It's a good thing a kid would never just change their age and say they're 50 or something, and are always completely honest about their ages.

Also, a large company crying because nobody trusts them not to sell every piece of information they receive brings me joy inside.

I like how there was an article about it losing players and now they're suddenly interested in going to steam after all these years of doing their own thing.

I already owned the domain and have access to a server with more than enough resources, so it didn't have a downside to me.

Upside, I don't really have to worry about anyone else's federation choices. Undesirable content like loli/shouta stuff doesn't appear at all, because I'm basically the only user and don't subscribe to anywhere that exists so it doesn't federate to me anyway. My instance never lags because nobody but me uses it. Sometimes it misses comments through federation from overloaded instances, but it seems like the newer version of Lemmy has helped that greatly.