I’m fairly certain that they often DO have contracts that demand their store gets the lowest price available from at least some game developers.

There is a paragraph in their store contract that specifically demands price matching with other stores, but only if you sell steam keys on other stores or use the valve infrastructure for multiplayer. How its enforced is another question, but the rule itself is fair.

Maybe big studios have different contracts, but I at least haven’t heard anything contrary.

Its very common for people with ADHD, autism, depression or some other mental problems that fuck with your executive function and mental capacity. And considering how technical and niche Lemmy is, I’d wager that about 50% of the userbase fall under any of those categories.

Q could do a lot more than just randomly appearing. There definitely was a bit of timetravel and exceeding warp 10.

Even if he isn’t omnipotent, he definetly is a godlike being to humans.

Security wise Fairphone isn’t up to GOS standards, so a collaboration wasn’t on the table either way.

If said standards are reasonable is a difficult thing to say. A few years ago I would’ve said that a normal person doesn’t need to be concerned that the police tries to break into their phone, but with the current state of things and the increasing rise of fascism, I’m not so certain anymore.

Nintendo is the worst offender here.

Their audacity to pretend that the switch 2 is a different console than the original switch is fascinating. They cut corners on hardware when they released the original and now Nintendo is charging you again to buy slightly better hardware that will still underperform.

I get that non nativ ports can have performance problems, but even Nintendo originals run under 30fps with mediocre graphics. You get better performance if you run the switch games on a steam deck via an emulator.

Has valve even done any form of marketing or advertisement outside their store?

As far as I’m aware they are just really good at keeping their mouths shut.

You’ve never broken your ankle I see.

The problem is that they kept on forcing stuff into it till it became a bloated monster.

When teams was the replacement for Skype, it was pretty much just that, a chat and call app.

Now you have chats, calls, teams that are automatically their own SharePoint (not to confuse with the SharePoint sites themselves), contacts, calendar (synct with outlook, but completely different ui and functions), planner (not to confuse with to-do, stuff in the planer can show up in to-do, but not vice versa), power automate integration, power apps integration (that only work half the time cause of missing user rights), OneNote integration (at least that one still has its own app), and a plethora of different apps you can link.

The files in the individual teams take ages to load, the UI changes every few days for the sake of it, basic features break for no apparent reason, calls randomly don’t connect, sound in and output breaks repeatedly.

Its a slow and cluncky mess of different apps tacked onto each other, just so MS can say that they have an app for that instead of forcing you to use the browser interface.

It depends which one people use

It really doesn’t. Pretty much all models so far loose their guardrails once you are deep enough in the conversation. There were multiple news articles about ai giving someone the go ahead to off themselves.

and how it’s used

No matter which way you use it its bad. If you ask it for tips, you are essentially asking the average redditor for mental health advice. If you use it for conversations, you are forming a parasocial relationship with an AI that will constantly get things wrong you told it about before while reinforcing whatever worldview you have. The only thing that would slightly help is supervision by a human, but that would make the whole exercise redundant.

Do you think that comment should be applied to disabled people who can’t access any other form of therapy?

If they were desperate enough to be forced into using AI, then that above comment wouldn’t apply to them, but instead to the ones that are responsible for the broken system in the first place.

People that need therapy are one of the groups that should be kept away from ai as fr as possible.

AIs are yes-man, they agree with most of what you say. You really think its a good idea to reinforce the bad worldview or sense of self someone that desperately needs therapy most likely has.

In 99% of online purchases you have to give them your email either way, so it doesn’t really matter if you additionally sub to their newsletter.

And everyone on this side of the pond said I’m overreacting by calling trumps immigrant detention centers “concentration camps”, but here we are. Even the Nazis didn’t start as fast with their genocide as the orange turd seems to try.

What are they supposed to do when the police comes knocking with a warrant, not comply until they get shutdown for good?

Besides, afaik there has never been any instance where proton handed over any of the supposedly encrypted data like VPN traffic and EMails. They usually hand over the contact information that’s part of the payment process people use, the stuff they are legally required to keep for 5+ years even if you send them a gdpr deletion request.

There was a lot of questionable stuff said and done by the board members and I’m really annoyed that they fight against ads but have the audacity to regularly send promotions themselves.

But in terms of data safety they do exactly what they advertise, keeping everything on their servers private.

The issue isn’t even that they copy it once anymore. That would be a one and done thing.

The biggest problem is that they can’t even be arsed to copy anything but the URL. They save their own resources by feeding only the address and metadata into the training model and then letting it loose to collect the datasets for itself again.

That means every new model and every slight tweak is an additional crawler that will spamm your server with requests, all because these lunatics are too cheap to buy their own hdds.

You read that a bit wrong. Productivity didn’t go down, productivity growth did.

Economists are for some reason unable to accept that their so called productivity doesn’t grow infinetly. Every prognosis pretty much depends on a constant linear growth, so with a breakthrough in technology you would expect exponential growth.

But what somehow no one of them considers is the fact that human productivity has reached its physical limit hundreds of years ago and the only thing even leading to linear growth in the first place are these technological breakthroughs.

And that’s also the current issue. We haven’t had a major breakthrough in quite a few years. Sure everything gets better and easier to make, but nothing that happened in the last 20 years comes even close to the advent of PCs or the Internet as a whole. So the only way to keep your line from going up slightly less (not down, just slightly less up) is to reduce the number of workers while keeping your supposed output the same, i.e. firing people.

Its the desperate struggle of the current system (capitalism) that depends on the lie that productivity can go up infinetly.

Latin is at least pronounced just like its written.

The french took those words, threw away everything but the root, added 50% more vowels than necessary and drew a few symbols over certain letters to change the pronunciation.

A strong sense of fairness / righteousness is officially regarded as a symptom/trait of autism.

Technically its a good trait to have, but by god does it suck in this reality. It automatically pushes you politically to the left (you know, human rights and stuff…) while at the same time completely removing your ability to look at issues that you can’t control with a certain level of apathy.

300 years ago that meant you would help your neighbor out with food if they had a bad harvest and got fucked over by the tax collector. Today it means you are following every bad thing happening globally, fully knowing where this all leads due to your pattern recognition skills, while slowly being driven insane due to the fact that most of the population simply doesn’t seem to care.

You can run Linux just fine on apple SOCs, multiple independent projects managed to run Linux on IPhones before. You do have to rewrite the device tree and all drivers, but that’s the case for all new hardware. People have done it before for the ARM chips in the apple silicons. (up to the M2 series at least)

The only real question is if the bootloader is unlockable or if the neo needs to be jailbroken like its the case with most iphones.

Its definetly not a good choice for Linux and it will take a few years even with the best case scenario, but its possible nonetheless.

That depends on your definition of private.

A push notification is pretty much just a ping that wakes up the app that is supposed to show you the notification. There usually isnt much data in that ping, so the only thing the Google firebase servers (or whatever other backend solution you use) see is a timestamp and an app. If you then disable Notification historie (default is off bzw on GraphenOS) there is no other data stored anywhere.

That’s metadata that every single chat service has, no matter if its E2EE or not, because that’s the bare minimum they need to transmit anything at all. If that already isn’t private for you then you’d have to stop using the internet or phonecalls entirely and go back to carrier pidgeons.

If I’m not completely wrong that picture is from the uncensored library, a massive project that allows users to search most of Annas archive in Minecraft. Its used to circumvent state censorship and allows for freer access to knowledge.