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>Anybody who’s got $1000 phone (read: just about everyone)

The ignorance of this alone makes the whole comment worthless.

This is either a troll comment or a mountain of survivors bias. For every person who tries to "Pull themselves up by the bootstraps and start a business" Most of them failed and likely ended up with less money than before.

You might as well advise people to buy lottery tickets because they give away $1M for only $5

I like the well done hiding nav bar in my browser but the web ones tend to go mental popping up and down randomly. And then it just magnifies the crappiness when you have 2 stacked nav bars from the browser and website which are both trying to hide/unhide.

The ideal hiding navbar is one which is the only one on the screen and one which only pops down as much as the user scrolls so you have to scroll up one navbars worth to get the full thing and not the ones where you scroll up 1 px by accident and the full navbar flys down

Most other browsers had it for a long time before 2017.

>Also "relatively new" is still accurate in web terms, which has specifications dating to the 90s.

The majority of web features are relatively new under this definition.

> relatively new

sticky has been around since at least 2014

I think the only time sticky headers are ever acceptable is when you need to regularly refer back to them. Long tables without sticky headers are the worst

I think this is probably correct but it seems entirely incompatible with modern American society.

As an outsider it seems like the way Americans think is "If you don't earn enough its because you didn't work hard enough" And any of your suggestions go against the idea of personal responsibility that is held so strongly.

They still don't have a linux client years after the windows one came out. Also compared to valve they do basically nothing other than simply allow publishers to add a linux version.

Valve essentially created linux gaming as a real and viable thing.

The counter counter argument is that while you can write bugs in any language, there are a huge number of bugs that simply wouldn't have existed in a safer language. I write ruby code at work and every time I find a bug I think "Would this bug have been possible in rust" And most of the time the answer is no because the bug is because of a typo or a nil value where it shouldn't be or should have been handled.

Not every corporation has proprietary x86 binaries they need to run on a server. Every company I have worked at has had entirely open source server software and a few proprietary javascript libraries.

I assume there is a pretty big lag between AMD CPUs being much better and prebuilts including them and businesses noticing they are better.

I am left split between choosing between gog which support drm free games but seemingly don't give a shit about linux and valve which allow drm but literally have multiple people dedicated to making linux gaming better. Recently a valve developer submitted a patch to linux which fixed a regression in a logitech gaming device driver. None of that has anything to do with valve and yet they pay people to do it anyway.

For now at least I will be sticking with valve and if for some reason my access ever gets cut off I will pirate a copy of every game I owned.

It matters for the people that create and distribute the cracks. Its much easier to simply dump the crack file/source on your website and freely distribute it if its legal to do so.

A nice way to solve this would be for steam to require all games provide a drm free version to valve and in the event where the DRM breaks and the publisher is gone steam will replace everyones copy with the drm free version. Although these days I don't think valve is really in the position to demand such a thing.

They do offer refunds for under 2 hours gameplay. This doesn't help when you have been playing for years and then it stops working but it does prevent you from buying a broken game today.

I had a legitimate copy of spore back in the day but I never got to play it since I didn't have an internet connection and the DRM required it :/

And the user is in no way obligated to look at the ads. If I start a business giving away things for free expecting the users to pay me back later but in no way requiring them to and it doesn't work out then thats just a bad business model.

The "free" in this case is the fact that they have not charged any fee to obtain the data.

Users are allowed to control how they view content on their own computer. Facebook has chosen to give the content out for free and users may choose to render the content however they wish.

Facebook is free to charge for the service.

I wonder if in this case tiktok is actually in violation of discrimination laws.

>If it isn't, why on earth not?

Because its simpler to do it in software and the users won't notice anyway.

The difference is which government the spyware corp is controlled by.

Because most people want some way to reset their password if they forget it.

No, my ancestors were very likely somewhat involved in the violent takeover of Australia.

So you are telling me a usb microphone needs to implement hdmi and displayport if it wants to be compliant? Or are these devices expected to stay on lower usb versions? What if the device needs some of the features from usb4 but it makes no sense to have thunderbolt features?

I'm not super familiar with the usb spec but it was my understanding that thunderbolt was an optional feature that usb devices could support.

I was just looking at the archives trying to understand what one of the jokes meant and then thought how insane it would sound if you told the person that the post they are about to submit in 1989 would be read by someone on the internet in 2019.

Selling lifetime services for something like that is very risky. It would be like paying someone a few million dollars and then they have to try to budget it out for the rest of their life. Also what happens if the company runs out of money and cant continue services. You have already paid for a lifetime subscription but they have no money to give you a refund.

Steam lets you refund a game for any reason if you have under 2 hours playtime. I have never found that I liked a game for the first 2 hours and didn't like it at all after that.

>That’s disposable clothing at that price.

I have not found price to have much basis on the lifetime of a tshirt. The design/mass production of the design seems to be most of the cost. You can buy a high quality tshirt for very cheap its just the same design has been sold 500,000 times already.