Right? How do you even cheat on a ruleset this dumb? You don‘t. It was a stupid contest from the start.

Yeah I hope Valve loses this in favor of developers and consumers. If another platform asks for a smaller share devs should be allowed to set a lower price.

Yup. It would simply be more fair if this rule would be applied after distributors took their cut. Let devs make their games cheaper when platforms ask for a smaller share. That‘d only be reasonable.

I remember having to sit down my boss and explain how it can only become more expensive over time. It’s the big tech playbook after all. Didn‘t matter. I‘m told again and again how AI is only becoming stronger and cheaper. Especially during salary negotiations. Nasty stuff. They know I know it‘s BS and they still cling to this nonsensical narrative because it would be very beneficial to them and very bad for me.

Pyre was really unique and fun! I‘m not sure if it‘s something people actually dislike, though. It‘s more so that nobody knows about it, I think.

Looks like Krafton negotiated insanely bad bonus conditions and terms for themselves here. Are they adrenaline junkies or am I bad at math because it looks like they have to pay much larger bonuses than they made revenue so far.

It sounds like the guy treats these issues in a very standard way by notifying the company beforehand with a note that the findings will be made publicly at a certain date. Microsoft ignores it and it inevitably gets published. That‘s standard procedure. Microsoft throwing a tantrum is the only extra thing here although „shooting the messenger“ seems to become more common these days with these findings.

So we won‘t get Witcher 4 for at least another 2 years, then.

These guys pretend they reinvented the Internet after they ruined it.

You don‘t close just half of your accounts due to disinformation or hate speech concerns. That‘s complete BS.

Well, now UE6 seems to be the big new thing so Witcher 4 can suck it I guess.

Experienced a taste of it when trying to buy a movie on Rakuten. Said it wouldn‘t allow to play the stream on Linux (when Amazon is totally okay with it). It‘d an issue for sure.

Very clean! How did you do it?

Ai scrapers are making it kinda suck to run anything on the internet to be honest.

It‘s like the phone sonar tech from the Dark Knight everyone said was total BS but totally real…

Fully agree. This has been discussed for years and most Bambu costumers basically said the risk of your printer being essentially disabled by an update over night was worth it for the quality and low cost of the printer.

A part of me expects Bambu costumers to take this with dignity and move on. They knew the risks after all and are in no position to throw a tantrum after shitting on Prusa for years.

But a different part of me rejects costumer responsibility. It‘s almost always used by bad corporations to shift the blame on the little guys. I want them to fight this. To cause a shit storm that scares off other corporations from trying something similar. It‘s kind of entertaining too. I‘m not gonna lie.

And many people warned exactly this would happen. Bambu introduced a closed system into an open source hobby and the parallels to home ink printers were pointed out immediately by the community. Bambu essentially announced this would happen. I‘ve been saying this for years.

At the very least when the brand is sponsoring Youtubers to the degree Bambu did. It‘s a huge red flag.

Didn‘t expect anything less (or more) to be honest. Not at the moment. 5 years from now, though? It‘s entirely possible most new PC hardware will be made by Chinese brands that we have never heard of.

From what I‘ve heard it‘s all about guarantees because SSDs have a tendency to just go bad sometimes. Some SSDs are more expensive because the manufacturer will offer a replacement for up to 5 years. You can expect these manufacturers to have better quality control too. They don‘t want to replace SSDs left and right after all.

Take this with a grain of salt because I never actually had to get an SSD replaced myself. But I would only trust a manufacturer that‘s been in business with a good reputation for 5 to 10 years. Cheap storage sounds tempting but for me it‘s not worth risking to lose my data over. Yes I make backups but still.