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‘They’re Marketing to Us That We’re Too Stupid to Fix Our Stuff’ CounterSpin interview with Gay Gordon-Byrne on right to repair
  • I don't know if that's true. Like if Apple had to fully replace every single iPhone that had any sort of issue, that I don't know that AppleCare would be a product that they could actually offer, at least a reasonable price. And I know that a significant number of people use apple specifically because they know that they can pay more once and then just go to an Apple store to get literally anything fixed.

    If Apple is prohibited from having any tools to fix their own devices (in the world where they just choose to have them non-repairable), then could they actually maintain their business while having to throw away devices constantly?

  • Exclusive-Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in ‘company reset’ continuation
  • I'm pretty sure that you generally can't do that, in the US at least.

    A C-level officer is required generally to act in the best interest of the company, but as long as the genuinely think that what they were doing was an attempt to improve the company in some way, you'd be hard-pressed to ever prove that they weren't acting in the best interest. You'd have to find physical proof that they were intentionally sabotaging the company, and (probably) no one who is smart enough to become a CEO is going to do that.

  • Best Game You Have Attended?
  • Mine by far is July 7, 2021 when the Bolts won the Stanley Cup at home versus the Canadiens. They had won the previous year, but it was in the social distanced "bubble" finals in 2020, so this one actually had people at it, and they won.

    I had painted my beard blue for the entire finals. The big fan group I'm with had been marching through the city down to the game every game night for a few weeks, and then to win it all... Just so so good.

    https://imgur.com/qyW6URW

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  • I mean that might be true, but those key reseller sites are also often grey-market. Sometimes they are legit, but sometimes they resell keys they bought with stolen credit cards etc.

    I personally wouldn't buy from a site that I couldn't easily verify is legit (steam, gog, hb, etc)

    Multiple indie developers I've seen (wube who makes factorio has been very vocal about it) have complained about losing significant amounts of money from grey/black market keys since they end up being on the hook for fees when people do credit card chargebacks.

  • The Steam Awards [yes, BG3 is GOTY, we got it]
  • It's been on the front page of steam for every sale this year, and near the top of the page other than that. They frame it as an indie hit, but the dev is owned by Nexon which is among the largest game publishers around.

  • The Steam Awards [yes, BG3 is GOTY, we got it]
  • I really wanted Coral Island to win the chill game category. That game is legitimately great, the first of the "Stardew clones" era of farming games that is actually good on its own right.

    Dave the diver just comes off to me as a massively advertised bleh

  • A lot of people hate crypto, and I can understand, however...
  • But it's not "every validator has one HDD". It's "you can establish an out-sized representation of the swarm by spawning more processes with more storage".

    The pressure doesn't come from one person mining at home, it comes from organized groups trying to intentionally game the system.

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