[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Or maybe because it's good? Have you tried the Occam's Razor thing? You need to realize that by and large, users could not possibly care any less about source code available if you gave them money for it.

And the software has upsides. Compared to NewPipe (what I had before):

  • Updates in finite time after Youtube breaks something.
  • Can actually log in with your youtube account, directly accessing your subscriptions and so on, instead of having go through the complicated export/unzip/import process every time you change your subscriptions and want to resync them.
  • Includes more sources, and pretty heterogenuous ones at that. Nice all-in-one app.

And keep in mind, nobody who is not a gnu cares whether for some hyper-specific context that this post is not in, "free" can mean the sourcecode is freely available. The english language already uses the word "free" in everyday parlour, and if you use english, you know those uses. One of which being "costs you nothing". Trying to argue around that just makes people less likely to care about source code availability because frankly, you're being a dick to people for no bloody reason.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yep. It's impressive, tbh.

It's a company that was one of the first to get into "smart xyz" at all, scored big, and since then has shown that they have absolutely not a single clue how to do smart home appliances.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's free software as in, it's free. You can continue mumbling your nonsense in the corner of course, the rest of us have bigger issues than whether someone we don't actually know can use word "free" like everybody else.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

That's the worst part, back when they were new, at least Sonos had a cool USP. Nowadays others do remote access and smart speakers too, and Sonos is still overpriced, still mediocre hardware, and now doesn't even have a nicely integrated all-in-one-app any more.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, hence the 'to a degree'. Although I should have expanded upon that to include that while you should always be careful (same with pitted cherries or so), a bone that big is weird to still be in there.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Same. For me the final straw was when it started desynchronising from actual progress when playing podcasts, which means every time I pause and resume I'm somewhere else I the episode.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

Did the fax go down from CrowdStrike? No. The superior communication medium!

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I've never seen those stickers, do they only get used in some countries?

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

At least here in Germany this is apparently still not true as smokers in particular add a huge cost to the healthcare system due to the long-term and repeated damage. For example, once they get parts of their feet amputated from clogged arteries, most actually continue to smoke ("Ah well now it's too late anyways"), and hence will get half a dozen such amputations over time.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

This makes sense to a degree, tbh. You cannot guarantee full removal anyways, at least over here a filetted fish still says that there might be the odd leftover bone in there.

It's like, "yeah it's 99% and any reasonable person would not assume 100% anyways".

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I mean, he's not wrong that the app wasn't ready. Which begs the question why they didn't un-roll-it-out. >.>

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Yeah I thought so, too. But this does come with the pretty big benefit that the demo will have it's own reviews. Which is cool. I like that. And to be fair, they already showed up as their own entry in search results as if they had a page, they just then also went to the same page.

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From the article:

"Play is an integral part of human evolution and learning," she says, mentioning that this is a topic she covers in her book. "Gaming, being the most refined form of play in our time, has much to offer. Instead of focusing on what gaming is not, it's more effective to showcase its true essence. The industry's effort to create a more diverse range of games, beyond merely violent and intense ones, will help showcase the broad spectrum of gaming as an expression of creativity."

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Interesting bits:

Net bookings of €290.0 million, ahead of target of around €275.0 million

As Ubisoft progresses on expanding its presence in GaaS-native experiences, a strong pipeline of content for current Live titles was also presented at Ubisoft Forward

🤮

Ubisoft shareholders approved all resolutions on the agenda of its Annual General Meeting held on July 11 by a very large majority highlighting the strong confidence of the shareholders in Ubisoft’s strategy. In particular, the shareholders voted for the renewal of Yves Guillemot’s as director.

😑

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What's interesting to me is of course how cheaply Bioshock got made compared to today's blockbuster hits. Somewhere, we took the wrong turn in regards to modern game development, truly.

Too many managers to pay and as a result too high personel costs, I would assume. :<

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Also free to keep on Steam here.

I have not personally played it yet, though I have seen it before. Seems above-average, if far from perfect. Anyone know more about it?

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

So yeah, EA is going full apeshit on Apex Legends monetization, doubling the number of battle passes and removing the ability to buy them ingame. Great. 😑 Good thing I left that game what feels like forever ago.

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This really does not sound healthy. The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don't like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it.

But by now gamers have been so trained to expect to endless content treadmills and all their ilk like mtx and battle passes that publishers/developers get egged on if they don't work on their game 24/7 and forever.

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Some information about upcoming job adjustment.

In particular interesting is that they listened to the specific request of adding artificial emnity to the now-damage-less gapclosers of GNB and DRK, and that they are once again wasting the chance of giving Astro an actual mobility tool in favor of further baking Lightspeed into the 2m-burst. Sigh.

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GOG link posted, Steam link is here. I tried a demo what feels like forever ago, neat little colony builder.

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