Sadly they’ve gone up in price over the last 6 months.
Mindfactory had 16TB for 160€ (10€/TB), but now they want 240€ for 18TB (13.3€/TB).
On eBay there’s sellers like HMCW, which are now also more expensive. But returns/warranty are questionable to say the least.
Edit: I wanna punch myself because I didn’t get one at the time.
Billboard ads can cost hundreds of thousands depending on the location and duration (e.g. Times Square, NY). TV ads, YT ads, streaming services ads, and search engine ads likely add up too. Big streamers will likely take quite a bit too. Maybe they’ll do a press conference to promote their game, which can be incredibly expensive location-wise.
But I agree, I can’t comprehend how it can be that expensive either.
Don’t forget marketing: be it movies or games, marketing likes to cost as much as the production of the media itself.
Sadly it seems to be necessary as many people just won’t know about some piece of media without it. Streamers play games they are paid to play, “reviewers” cover games they are paid to cover or know about through the hype generated by ads.
Yeah. There already are arbitrators by law: public courts.
I’ve been lucky and have had only a few issues and none with the small amount of games I’ve launched over the last year or so.
There’s an issue where people report issues with games, although I don’t know how up-to-date it is.
A basic requirement most devices don’t meet is the ability to relock the bootloader. Other than Fairphone, Google Pixel and OnePlus basically no manufacturers allow unlocking and subsequently relocking the bootloader, which makes custom ROMs inherently less secure than stock. This keeps CalyxOS from most devices. LineageOS can’t be relocked and thus is able to support way more devices.
Others have pointed out more in-depth security requirements GrapheneOS specifically thinks of as mandatory (they do take security very seriously).
Yes. I like to leave the original link in the post body for that reason.
Sadly it’s not possible to provide links using Firefox Translate. People would have to translate it themselves (i.e. opening in a browser and clicking translate). Depending on the device they likely wouldn’t bother.
Agreed. In general people seem to like centralised platforms. They don’t want to sign up on another site for a specific purpose. They stick to what they know unless there’s good reason to change (mostly peer/ad/social media pressure I feel like).
In a way Lemmy is similar in that it’s a single platform to access all types of content. Given most people don’t care about the technical “how”, I can see why they like Discord and Reddit.
Streamlining cross posting is a good idea, as long as someone actually read the post and posts it with a purpose. On second thought, I think cross posting is simple enough, given that titles are usually auto completed.
I’m generally against automatic cross posting bots, as they usually post duplicates, bad articles (instead of a proper source). Additionally, they often flood communities with an amount of content they are too small to handle. I.e. a lack of users to vote on posts let’s good articles drown in a flood of mediocre posts. This can kill communities as they feel even more empty than with fewer posts but more comments.
Like others mentioned, request Google Takeout which gives you all your photos. I recommend keeping the original zip/tar.gz for future reference (e.g. you need specific metadata not included in the photos directly).
Also, make sure to keep backups. E.g. upload it preferably encrypted, and store the password in a password manager. Make a copy on a USB SSD, and not just the Steam Deck (you might wipe it, lose it, …).
I do think the second part of your statement was unnecessary.
Given how updating apps automatically in the background wasn’t possible until recently, I do think Google wanted a strong monopoly over android. Yes, they allowed device manufacturers to pre install their own store, but they still had to include many of the Google apps to call it Android.
Well I do like new Reddit. It has a dark mode and works well with different screen/window sizes. Sadly it’s slow and equires JS to load the content (makes it slow).
Imo Lemmy web is most of the good parts of old Reddit and some of good parts of new Reddit. Though it’s not the best UI. My favorite UI for Reddit is Redlib [1]. It’s fast, works well on desktop and mobile, and looks great imo.
Great comment!
There’s similar legal issues with the “right to a private copy” many European countries have. Those laws were made to allow people to make a copy of their media, in case the original breaks. Important to note is that those private copies weren’t allowed to be distributed to anyone, not even lent to a friend.
This worked well at the time for cassettes and VHS, which did break occasionally.
But at some point most CDs came with copy protection, which got broken pretty quickly. But at least in Germany, they are still considered “working copy protection” and thus are illegal to circumvent, even for a otherwise legal private copy.
The same is the case with Switch games: Copyright owners use copy protection to make otherwise legal use cases illegal.
E.g. Nintendo made it so that Switch games can only be played by decrypting the ROMs, which is illegal for anyone except Nintendo.
At least that’s their standpoint which was never tested in court but it’s not unlikely that it’d be accepted.
It’s not possible to change the name for services independently. I’m either with my real name in a phone game, or with a pseudonym in Messages…
What a terrible idea.
There’ll be at least alpha 5 and 6, so early next year a beta might come out.
SteamOS as a whole is not open source. Most of it is, but it also includes proprietary software (e.g. Steam itself). This is likely why you were downvoted, as SteamOS can be kept private without violating any license thus your first statement was false.
Valve could distribute each single piece of open source software they use on request to their customers, without publishing any guide to actually build it. (Thanks for linking to Valve’s repo, which seems to match this statement.)
This is how Apple does it with Darwin, the BSD-derived open source core of macOS. Without all the proprietary parts it’s not useful as an OS, even though they follow all the necessary licensing.
At some point Settings will support keyboard shortcuts by pressing them. They just didn’t come around to it.
The correct keyword to add a shortcut for “Control” is “Ctrl”. E.g. “Super+Ctrl+X”.
Without testing I’d try “F1”…“F12”. Edit: On second thought you likely mean media keys and such. There’s a tool called wev which shows a keys event name when pressed. E.g. the audio stop media key is “XF86AudioStop”. (When they are already bound they might not show up, because the compositor does not send them to wev).