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  • Honestly, in a way, (ubiquitous fast) internet ruined gaming. When you had to buy physical disks, there was no way to continuously monetize a game. Studios had to make new good games and they did.

    Back then, there were awesome games for phones as well. I still have an old phone with just to keep galaxy on fire 2. N.O.V.A. 2 was basically Halo game on phones. Before that, there was awesome java games for dumb phones.



  • I did not even realize you could run games on these GPUs… I guess I learn something every day. It would still be hard to spend 5k on the rest of the PC without throwing money away on visuals and other performance unrelated stuff, but I guess you may be able to do it depending on what you still consider performance improvements…








  • More education is a balance of costs and benefits. There is no harm in even a supermarket cashier having a collage degree. God knows our democracies could use more educated voters. But in many professions, it is not worth the cost. The same knowledge could be gained by a few months of on the job training. If employers are really willing to pay more for those degrees like in Germany than that is fine. But I am pretty sure in some places, people are asking for degrees not because they are needed (worth the cost), but because people with degrees are available cheaply.

    After all, if the degrees were worth their price to employers, and the employers paid for them adequately, student loans wouldn’t be an issue.


  • There is a lot that can be done in practice. One, employers are asking for degrees because they can. If you lower the number of graduates and they can’t get them without higher pay, they will stop. Two, you could put a price on the degree, e.g. higher minimum wage for positions requiring a degree to make employers pay for the extra education.





  • Apps from outside the Play Store? No, because previously your phone had no reason to ask Google anything.

    Play store seems to be sending list of all applications to ask for available updates. This is observable because play store offers me updates for apps I installed via f-droid and obtanium.

    But now, it needs to check developer signatures to know if it’s a verified developer, and it obviously can’t cache all of them as the size would be insane.

    Not how signatures usually work. You check the signing key (certificate) is signed by google key and you fetch a revocation list (banned developers). Of course, google could implement it in the way you suggest in theory, but I find it unlikely, since it would block offline installation for no reason.