Unless you live in places like cities around Los Angeles

Before and on release date, most sales are to a minority of highly engaged gamers that then create reviews and hype. Ubisoft needs that hype as they know the majority of the profit they will make is from sales after the release when the general public reads those reviews and then decide to spend their dollar on the game because the reviews were good. Also the majority of the general public won’t pirate anyway…

Obviously the best of the crop

This community has lots of high quality material, love it

The ideal internet was open and free if you could pay hosting and bandwidth costs - generally those who were associated with universities could

I say let him do that and then let congress legislate this once the grim details of how the human subjects died creates a scandal and political unity across the aisle. It’s the American Way®

Tis a good time for Macarthism to return

Me too but the decay of retail is happening everywhere, thanks to internet shopping

I like Bernie but he should retire and coach the next generation of Dem leaders

By “judicial side” you mean “Poland is going Hungary/Israel judicial style”?

Poland does many things right

Oh that’s sad. The nature of commerce and competition means that proprietary stuff will never go away because making closed stuff is the way MBAs are taught to create “competitive advantage”

What’s holding GNU/Hurd back? Can’t be hardware anymore since it became blazing fast

That was not the UNIX way… True UNIX way would end silently and have zero as $?

That’s insightful, thanks for sharing your views on this

The way the Lemmy version of r/place would look like would depend on which other servers your server is federated with. It’s a very postmodern approach where there is no single view of the thing for everyone

Thanks for reminding me of this masterpiece of writing about management of social networks

People point fingers at Meta for “allowing” this but there’s no amount of money that can reasonably moderate 3 b-b-billion users.

This is a prime use case for AI technology

Some people also use tablets and even foldable phones

It’s jarring nevertheless