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Syncthing? I'm taking 'offline' to mean 'not requiring the internet', which means you can have plenty of computers!

They did though! From what I understand from people who made those profitable games is that Facebook funded, either though investments or grants most vr games out there. Even ones not owned by the company (like beat sabre, batman, deadpool, etc).

The problem is, like someone else mentioned, the company itself. Facebook is a middleman company. other people make stuff, showcase it on one of their properties (insta, marketplace, whatever), and then go back to the people actually doing stuff.

Despite the shock at the amount of money meta spent on their version of the metaverse, I don't think they spent nearly enough to accomplish their vision.

Meta, to the detriment of the market, tried too early in the VR lifecycle to own the market. They basically tried to become the iPhone and Apple in the year 1990.

Tell me, do you believe any singular company in the year 1990, with 100B to burn, would be able to create the iPhone, in any of its varations? Absolutely not, there too much research, too much to invent, too much to program and not nearly enough talent and money for one company to manage.

Even sites with that option already (like wikipedia) still report being hammered by scrapers. It's the full-funded aligned with the incompetent at work here.

Good luck. To have something that a regular family could use would require remote access from the company for troubleshooting, updates, maintenance.

So you get all of the downsides of cloud hosting (company employees can still remote in), with none of the upsides (all the hardware is now geographically distributed, instead of one big building) with the privilege of paying for it instead of being "free" like facebook/google.

Honestly? They might. A game I play (Torn.com) started using AI and over dramatic ads, and they outperformed (higher signups, and higher retention) the more traditional and even player created ads.

The owner expressed surprise and frustration over it, because it kinda sucks that's what works.

You're not. You feel obligated to send a thank you, but don't want to put forth any effort, hence giving the task to someone, or in this case, something else.

No different than an CEO telling his secretary to send an anniversary gift to his wife.

Convienence. Consoles are popular because you just plop down, hit the on button and play (in theory).

And while people don't care how much spy/adware their computer is, they do care when frequent notifications, popups and updates interfere with what you're doing. Nothing more annoying that having a windows notif steal focus from a game you're playing through steam link in the other room (personal experience).

I'm so glad that they've improved steam and link on linux so much, having to run it on my s/o windows computer was a pain.

It's a cool idea, but the lack of a space between regular words and words wrapped in a <span> is driving my typo-radar nuts

So many underscores for usernames, and yet, other than a newly created account, there was 1 other username with an underscore.

Or even not locally!

While I get you're trying to highlight jkr's anti-trans opinion, both can be true. You can be an asshole, while also being subject to other assholes behavior.

Steam DRM is entirely optional. Blame the publishers for DRM.

It's true, before copyright existed, no one made any art at all, and they certainly weren't paid for it. Thanks to copyright, the large majority of artists have been well and fairly compensated for their work.

It was at a point where they were going to fast to stop or land safely. At that point you're just trying to pick the best place to crash.

I see a lot of complaints about the font, and I'm just curious what makes it so hard to read? Is English your second language, I know reading Japanese for me in different or (worse!) handwritten makes it 10x harder for me to read. Are you just not used to a handwritingish font, and only read more typewritery fonts? Older than me (35+)?

It just feels weird that a perfectly legible font has multiple complaints, and I don't understand why or how?

The vast majority of people.

A possible challenge, yes, but there exist 1500w, standard outlet hpwh, and it's a lot less common to not have any power near a water heater.

I wouldn't find it amazing, there are so many new models, features, ways to use models that the minute you pause to take a deep dive into something specific, 43 other things have already passed by you.

I was a similar path, learned and used Autocad from kid onwards. Being able to visualize things in a top/front/side view is a huge help in modelling. And you can get pretty far in making nice things with just a simple extrude/scale workflow in Blender.

As for being worth it. depends on your goals tbh. For 3d printing/cnc, I'd still stick with cad. Blender can do it, but it's not nearly as good as any cad software. If you're looking to expand into editing videos or making models for something 3d the spatial sense will make life easier in learning Blender for sure.

While this joke is never mentioned and is hilarious every time, you'd be hard pressed to find a recipe site that didn't have either a "print" or "go to recipe" button at the top.

I remember watching the SpaceX channel on youtube, which isn't a legit source. AI Elon basically says "I want to help make bitcoin more popular, let me show you how easy it it to transfer money around with btc. Send my $X and I'll send you back $2X! It's very inline with a typical elon message (I'll give you 1 million to vote R), it's on a channel called SpaceX. It's pretty believable.

Granted I played Runescape and EvE as a kid, so any double-isk scams are immediate redflags.

Using someone elses deck is such a siren song, and I honestly believe it's detrimental to properly using Anki. Making and curating your own cards is an essential step in learning the new concepts.

Nix is a form of computing that's simultaneously 20 years in the past and 20 years in the future. I love it.

Honest answer though, it's a deterministic way of building up a computer/environment. Think pip/uv/packages.lock but for everything.

It's not really shifting the cost from readers to writers, since these fee existed beforehand though. They just went from double-dipping to single dipping.

Random number generator and vibes probably.

Depends on what you mean by best ofc :P

If anything, the human world is built for humans, so a lot of existing things are naturally compatible with human hands. Also, take into account flexibility. It might not be the best for one job, but it's really okay at a lot of jobs.

Will Cogley has had a few different designs with tendoned hands.

https://www.youtube.com/@WillCogley

https://willcogley.notion.site/

So, there are designs out there for that too!

Yeah, that's probably my biggest culprit too. I'm guilty of getting something and then not playing it, but I'd say over half is due to humble bundles.

Steam DRM is optional. It's the developer/publishers choice to add it. No one should be getting mad at Valve for providing an option that the publishers ask for. Yell at the publishers.

The fact you want a distribution service to be peer-to-peer kinda implies that distributing a game can have some significant costs. Maybe that 30% isn't quite as abusive as you make it sound?