I have a real life example. Let’s say you’re an artist that does photorealistic renders for architecture firms. You switched to Unreal Engine like everyone else because it’s reasonably priced and quick to work with. You need some assets to do that because you definitely need more than basic materials. There’s plenty of industries that are in need of high quality assets, and most importantly, are able to afford them. Epic just wants their own digital marketplace monopoly like Valve or Apple have.

„Hello, is this the handyman? I need help with my leaky toilet.”

Apple Watch is not so bad, it’s common for smartwatches to require proprietary charging pucks. At least this one also charges my AirPods.

Polish one is going quite miserably.

People don’t want to hear that Ukraine will lose with the current level of support. Trinkets in the form of fancy weapons every couple of months do not win attritional war fought with men and artillery.

Apologies for the shitposting.

Blockchain and crypto were worse. „AI” has some actual use even if it’s way overblown.

Promise of 60 FPS with ray tracing sees a pretty quick stumble.

Yes and no. Yuzu had it coming because they bragged about running leaked games and profited from it. Ryujinx was entirely legal and ethical even if they were way early to the game.

Spoiler alert: it’s the definitive edition of Metaphor which could be released as update+DLC but will be released as a brand new game with no upgrade path for existing customers.

I love Atlus but shit’s tiring by now.

Being less worried about appearance in regards to war in Ukraine stems from aspiring to be the voice of global south, at least in my perception. They tend to underscore humanitarian cost and threat of escalation because they don’t have as much historical context as Eastern Europe does, but that doesn’t mean they don’t recognise that the blame is solely on Russia. To them invasion of Ukraine is about as distant as civil war in Myanmar is for someone in Ukraine.

El Pais reminds me of weekly news/political magazines from the time when those were still printed on paper. Their reporting covers majors news, politics but also popular science and culture. What’s nice about them is that they’re don’t publish a story unless it’s reasonably fleshed out. Even though it’s obviously left leaning it doesn’t go overtly partisan like The Guardian.

They’re definitely pro-Ukraine and pro-Palestine due to basic human decency, just more nuanced and less concerned with appearance because they report from Hispanic / Latino perspective and naturally they’re a bit more detached due to distance.

Fwiw, you’ll also notice that one of the union representatives at the end hints that they want government subsidies of some sort.

That would be incompatible with EU common market although with the weight of France I guess rule bending is not out of question. This sounds like a viscous cycle though, trying to outspend China which has fiscal and monetary policy built entirely on stimulating domestic growth, at the cost of crazy capital controls.

Ah, right you are. I’m not sure EU common market can be reworked so that it doesn’t happen, at least without central fiscal policy and budget. Tariffs are still needed regardless unless we want to become dependent on our global adversary rather than Slovakia.

With Apple’s glacial but consistent speed of fixing those annoyances recently I hope we’ll see this implemented in the next 5 to 20 years. Fingers crossed!

Thank you. Please note that if I am to find some money today or in the future I will report it so that it can be taxed properly. I’m a firm believer of giving back to the society so that we have schools, hospitals and roads.

There are multiple apps that can do this, this one is free and open source: https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

This is confusing. We’re imposing tariffs because China subsidises their EV production in order to kill competition elsewhere and bring even more manufacturing there.

I was in the same boat, frustrated with Sony stranding entire generations of games on aging hardware. Sold all of my boxed stuff sans exclusives that run on my PS4 Pro. Bought XSX and digital copies of everything I sold for a fraction of price in a third world store. This might be my last console if gaming industry continues on current path so no regrets even if Microsoft quits gaming tomorrow. It’s a nice life boat to carry those titles due to various improvements applied when played in backwards compatibility. XSX is the best platform to play Final Fantasy XIII these days which is quite bonkers when you think about it.

I might consider PC in the future if someone sells a reasonably priced prebuilt with an OS dedicated to gaming, be it from Microsoft or Valve & co. I actually have an old Steam Machine from ASU’s because I thought it would happen much earlier (it lives to this day as my home server). Right now Steam Deck ain’t it and any portable device will be too compromised performance-wise, not to mention entirely unpocketable compared to old handhelds.

Uhh, maybe you should get those facts straight?

Other nuclear powers - US, UK, France and China are signatories too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum