Ya. No mandatory arbitration.

But nintendo didnt vote for the tarrifs either. The American taxpayers did, and thus, they got what they voted for. Or in reality, they got what they were too lazy to vote agaisnt since over 1/3 of the population didnt bother.

In a similar vein. “Dome keeper” has had me teleport from and to Europe on 12 hour flights 4 times now.

FTL, Terraria, core keepter, and everything supergiant games ( hades, bastion, transistor) all punched well above their costs.

I dont understand your point. Slavery can be bad while a lottery based democracy can be good. There not related other than having the ability to exist at the same time? Slavery also existed in many voting based representative democracies like the Roman empire and American deomocratic republic.

Greek democracy was chosen at random through a lottery. It was extremely successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzbJacGGt1o&t=1270s

And the title of Caesar more rightfully translated would be “God King”. It implied divinity and super human levels of being.

God being a roman god, not the christian god. So not omnipotent, omnipresent, or omniscient. But still divine.

Good or evil in this case doesnt really matter. The key was consistency. America had been a world stabilizer for almost 100 years(even if the world stabilization was achived by destabilizing other nations). The world relied on that concept for global trade and the markets that brought with it.

That illusion is now shattered. The world knows its always a 4 year election cycle away from complete chaos. The trust to be earned back will take as long as it takes for humanity to forget. And it would also require us to be stable for that ammount of time. This means a minimum of the lifetimes of the people currently alive and possibly never.

But i am betting it never recovers to the same degree. America isnt the same power today as it was when it gained its place in the world. And China / europe are more powerful now than they were in the 50’s. We are no longer a world leader in education, manufacturing etc. Its possible we could speed up the recovery with some political changes to the system, but i dont have much hope for it. It would require the people in power doing things agaisnt their own interests.

I mean… clearly hes wearing a white shirt with ai or photoshop on top of it.

Sorry, you are correct. I didnt mean to say gog is straight up better than steam, though it does sound like thats what i meant. Writing a thoughtful rant on the toilet is difficult.

But in some ways, gog is better. Not all ways. Also the competition in this space has forced steam to do better. The retun policy was really only implemented due to competition for example.

Steam has had monopolistic policies. There just so benign compared to other monopolies of the current time, that they seem pedestrian.

Im not anti steam, but i try to never be pro any company.

Digital markets are naturally monopolistic. If there are no other barriers in a market, a single solution will rise to the top. Once it has gained enough market share, the “network effect” and incumbancy are often enough to keep it in power, even if the product degrades. Leaving steam is difficult, even when a better solution exists ( like gog) due to separated game libraries and friend groups.

See the following examples: Amazon, facebook, youtube, google, instagram, X

Amazon has many examples of enshitification. Higher prices, worse search, paid promotion of products etc.

Facebook adds, social experimentation and propaganda machine.

Youtube removes the dislike button, more advertisements and recommendation algorithm pushing conspiracy theories.

Hell. Here we are, a small group of people who left reddit because of their anti consumer policies. But lemmy is still no competition, and getting smaller by the day.

Markets are not the solution to monopoly, they are the creator. Its the natural end state of competition.

Im in firmware. IDEs change often depending on the chip i am working with. In some cases, the tools are better on windows, or have been in the past. It has gotten alot better recently.

I dont mind windows personally(from a usability standpoint, the spyware aspect worries me). And WSL has not caused me any issues in my dev environment.

Its freak in the sheets… its supposed to ryme… this broke me today.

“No pain, no increase”

Hes even a rapper. WTH…

This isnt a windows issue, its a company policy issue. If developers dont have full admin rights on their systems, its a failure of managment. If you cant trust your developers enough to give them admin rights, thats not a co worker i want to be around.

This sounds more like IT babysitting.

If IT cant trust software engineers to have full admin rights on a work computer, either the calibur of your co workers is so bad that no one should want to work there, or the IT department has such a god complex, no one should want to work there.

WSL has worked fine for me for the past 4 years.

If more than 50% of the people in the us keep voting for war mongers, its not really “overwhelmingly unpopular”. Its just full of people who say they dont like it, but vote for it anyway. So they are either cognitive idiots, or hypocrites.

I have a 5 digit steam ID, made on the 3rd day steam existed. Back when we all hated the concept of it.

There was a company that did hybrid tips. Memory foam but with silicone outer shell. This made them stay clean, while also blocking sound and great fit. But the ones I bought are no longer available and I have not yet found a replacement.