What’s the worst that could happen?

Oh this

There was no Epstein, only files about him, no there aren’t, and if we had any tapes, don’t you think we’d show you, except there are tapes, except they don’t show stuff

You don’t need the client to connect the games, I just do it via browser. And you don’t need it to launch the games either.

Apart from all this, I think they do lose money on the store, and are subsidizing it with Fortnite money. But I could be wrong.

You’re not really dependent on EGS just because of the free games; neither in the sense of drugs nor as in you build an infrastructure on it, like with other software. Let’s say you’re a student and get Microsoft products for free. You wrote applications for Windows, you create office documents. Later, Microsoft charges for new versions (since you’re no longer a student). Now you have the choice: keep using unsupported software which is a security risk; pay up; or migrate everything you have created over the years, which will take a long time. You have become dependent on the vendor.

With games, who gives a damn? It’s not like Little Nightmares 2 replaced Little Nightmares. I just keep that version. They’re completely different things. No more free games with EGS? Okay, now what? I’ll just keep using what I have. There is no lock-in effect. This is all just a promotion for their shop like a free ride voucher for a theme park where they hope you spend money on other stuff as well. Or basically any loss-leader anywhere, just that it’s not sold under price, but actually given away for free.

There’s a good reason the free games are so far down on their website, they want you to scroll all the way down and look at their stuff so that you maybe buy something. Which is fine by me, I actually even bought something there once (shouldn’t have, game was way below expectations, but that’s on me).

So yeah they’re not giving stuff out because they’re good. But it’s also not nefarious. Just really lazy and I guess more expensive in the long run.

Context from the article: they’re not against the tax, they’re against the tax going to the EU as opposed to going to the member states.

Imagine having Fortnite money and all you can deliver is the EGS. Yeah free games are cool I guess but it’s like the laziest approach regarding actually engineering and developing a solution

Same is true for games on Steam if the developer decides not to use Steam integration (some features like achievements are ok I think). For example Noita doesn’t need Steam running, you can just copy the folder to another machine AFAIK

also there are Steam emulators

Please note that the first paragraph in the screenshot does not refer to Trump. It’s still a Leopard eats my face moment, but not sure to the affordable housing stuff.

If taste was objective, Monster would have exactly one flavor, the one everyone likes most.

It’s just unfortunate that this BS is the way society is forced to realize that agriculture is built on exploitation, this isn’t meant to be a “both sides” moment but neither Reps nor Dems ever really cared about this. It was just always hypocritical to hate on the undocumented while relying on them

However, we all know that this administration will find the worst and inhumane way to deal with the situation.

Remember Epstein was a reason Melinda got divorced from Bill Gates

Rehab Lemon no contest

Ich würde davon ausgehen, da die AfD als “gesichert rechtsextrem” eingestuft ist. Bei ihren Mitgliedern kann daher davon ausgegangen werden, dass sie die Werte des Staates nicht teilen, und dass ist ein valide Grund, sie nicht zu beschäftigen. Anders sieht es natürlich bei Sozialleistungen etc. aus. Sie werden vom Staat ja nicht von öffentlichen Leben ausgeschlossen.

I don’t think so, Kegsbreath did his part, it’s Trump playing tough to take attention off the Epstein affair. Normally I’m not a believer in the “it’s all distraction” theory but I think in this case he’s happy to play tough on a topic.

Hab ich immer darin gemacht. Ist schließlich auch nur ein Umluftofen

Das wäre allerdings eine Zweckbindung; und die sind für Steuern verboten.

Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

This isn’t what I get when reading bug reports he interacts in. Yeah, sometimes he asks if something can’t be done another way – but he seems also very open to new ideas. I rather think that this opinion of him is very selective, there are cases where he comes off as smug, but I never got the impression this is the majority of cases.

I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.

PipeWire for audio couldn’t exist nowadays without PulseAudio though, in fact it was originally created as “PulseAudio for Video”; Pulse exposed a lot of bugs in the lower levels of the Linux audio stack. And I do agree that PipeWire is better than PulseAudio. But it’s important to see it in the context of the time it was created in, and Linux audio back then was certainly different. OSS was actually something a significant amount of people used…

Prohibition and the war on drugs sure worked out well when they were implemented. Surely this time …

This isn’t about making it legal, but about requiring age verification. To bring it closer to your example: stores shouldn’t check your she when buying booze, selling to everyone because if minors don’t get it there, they’ll get moonshine somewhere else, which is worse.

Kettles aren’t black, they’re metallic, and when the pot calls the kettle black, it only sees its own reflection. But both Musk and Trump are turds. No need for reflection

There are probably cases where turning off Secure Boot is fine. If you make that decision for yourself and are aware of the implications, go ahead. My remark wasn’t against users turning it off, but rather against the advice of “just turn it off lol”