Epic can only compete because they’ve few users and are willing to operate at a near loss

Bullshit. Epic’s loses are in paying for exclusives and giving away games while ruining their PR.

Steam could operate at 15% if they wanted to. But… why would they do that?

Especially on mobile.

Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.

legally required to increase the shareholders’ value.

First, this isn’t really true. Corporations are not required to increase shareholder value at any cost. Second, even if it were true, why would you still excuse those actions?

Why do you assume this has anything to do with a supply/demand curve? Because that’s the first thing you were taught in Econ 101 and it stuck?

In reality, most people aren’t that sensitive to small changes in price. And the demand drop is not instant. It might take months or years. Execs make the decision to raise the price, they don’t see the demand drop off immediately, and they instantly absolve themselves of any responsibility for the effects of their price increase. After all, there was hardly any demand drop in the quarter in which they made the change.

Look at say, Coca-Cola. You could easily double the price in five years and the price is negligible enough that most people won’t even notice. (Oh wait, they did this.)

you really shouldn’t be using variables with the same name but different capitalization in the same sections of code anyway.

It’s a standard convention. Notice step #3 here: https://scottlilly.com/learn-c-by-building-a-simple-rpg-index/lesson-08-1-setting-properties-with-a-class-constructor/

Edit: Step #4 is a different standard convention that also applies here.

It turns out that the easiest thing to program isn’t always the best application design.

Nope. Completely different.

Case is often used to distinguish scope. Lowercase is local while uppercase is public. “Name = name” is a pretty standard convention, especially in constructors.

There is a ubiquitous use case in programming. There is not in the file system.

One of the reasons I like apps for Lemmy is for notifications.

Coincidentally, one of the reasons companies like apps is for notifications.

Goodbye Chromecast!

Hello, thing that’s totally not Chromecast.

If I have vegetables or alcohol, I’m going through the cashier line.

If there’s no reasonable cashier line it’s 50/50 that I’m walking out.

Reminds me of this old Digital Blasphemy wallpaper from 2000.

https://beta.digitalblasphemy.com/sec/skysong2/

Yeah, was a bit of an overreaction.

a big section of ice/slush slough off and almost hit a kid waiting for their parent to pick them up.

I have heard of this. Don’t park under a roof with solar panels while it’s snowing.

And they’re hydrophobic. I hear snow is rarely an issue, but would be interested to hear from someone with actual experience.

Done! You should see about 4 reports in !linux . Take a peek and see what that looks like from whatever client(s) you normally use. Note that you’re not always obligated to take action on things that are reported. You know where the reports come from and have a good idea of how reliable they are.

We have a completely optional moderator discord here https://discord.gg/wKg6bhkM if you’re interested.

Thanks for helping out. If you have questions or need help at any point, let us know. You can PM me, there’s the discord, or there’s the [email protected] email that goes to the instance admins.

It’s tiered pricing. All the chains are doing it now. Jump through hoops or pay double.

Are you saying the point isn’t to catch CSAM because 95% of the CSAM people will find a workaround within a week?

Then what would be the point?

Don’t connect that machine to the internet. (Not that you had plans to.)

‘u’ died with the Queen. Have yo no respect?