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in terms of relevance, i think its anticompetitive that i cant use my skins and cosmetics from one game in a different game. if everything is running on the sa
by 8note 10mo ago
in terms of relevance, i think its anticompetitive that i cant use my skins and cosmetics from one game in a different game.
if everything is running on the same couple engines, the cosmetics are all compatible with each other
- deaux 10mo agoThis comparison doesn't work at all. An APK for app A is compatible with Android devices of version X, regardless of the store it is sold on. A cosmetic for game B is not compatible with all games running on the same engine Y, for obvious reasons. Asking Fortnite to accept other stores selling Fortnite-compatible cosmetics doesn't work either because Fortnite has not monopolized a trillion-dollar industry, meanwhile spending billions on lobbying to make daily life for the average citizen impossible without them, which the Google-Apple cartel has. Fortnite has also never gained market share by pursuing claims about being an open source platform or not being evil, again unlike Google. These differences.. make all the difference. Call me when my kids are forced to agree to Fortnite EULAs to participate in schooling all around the world.
- pjmlp 10mo agoThey can come to Portugal, we don't do Chromebooks, or to most European countries for that matter. Unless all around the world is the usual "world === USA".
- deaux 10mo ago> Unless all around the world is the usual "world === USA". Not at all. US isn't even the leader on this. For example in many countries it's already much harder to do any kind of digital banking without a Google/Apple-approved phone than in the US. In Europe as well, more and more places where it's completely the norm for schools and teachers to do all their communication through Facebook or Whatsapp. Sure those have web, but are arguably the worst of the three. Portugal nor most European countries are above this at all. If only they were. Look at all the national IDs rolled out, those too more and more mandatory Apple/Android 2FA. Will Portuguese teachers never downgrade any students who do all their homework on e.g. OpenOffice and it doesn't look nice on the teacher's MS Office? Doubt it.
- pjmlp 10mo agoMost students in Portugal still deliver their work assigments in paper, and if they want a computer, parents buy one to have at home, usually shared by all that are going to school. We have had national IDs since forever, with fingerprints, we don't go crazy about it like in some other countries, even though we suffered a dictorship with lots of human losses, colonial wars, and even though PIDE/DGS wasn't KGB or Stasi level, it also managed to impact our society. I should know, I am part of the first generation to grow up in freedom, while hearing the grown up stories of how everything came to be.
- petre 10mo agoYou also don't have stupid website age verification laws, at least not yet. Dunno what bs the EU Comission is going to come up with in the future.
- deaux 10mo agoSo which non-Meta platforms do schools and teachers primarily use to communicate with parents and students? How well is the Apple/Google-less digital banking in Portugal holding up? I'm sure like you're saying things in Portugal are better than average for Europe, but it's not representative.
- pjmlp 10mo agoMoving goal posts, your comment was all about Google/Apple cartel forcing kids and what not. By the way, some schools still understand emails, telephone calls, reporting books, and meetings in person. Here is an high school example, using a non-Meta platform, just because, https://espn.edu.pt/ https://espn.edu.pt/
- deaux 10mo agoYou're moving goalposts - my bigger point was about daily life becoming impossible without Google/Apple, and digital banking is one of the prime examples of this. On top of that Meta is the natural 3rd party in that group.
- ncruces 10mo agoConsidering Google Classrooms is used by a significant percentage of public schools, I have no idea why you think Portugal is special here. Also, given the frequency of families having issues with the Cuco MDM used to lock out the Windows computers they handed to kids during COVID, and what kids do which such computers, I'm doubly unsure it was a smart idea to offer shitty Windows laptops vs. shitty Chromebooks. Schools around the world give kids Chromebooks (or iPads) because they're harder to fuck and easier to unfuck. Windows still sucks at this, and no one came up with a coherent — locked down — Linux platform to achieve the same.
- pjmlp 10mo agoI am Portuguese, have family ties with teachers still into the active, I guess. That kind of stuff is mostly US school system, schools in countries that go with USA into G7 meetings, or wealthy enough for that kind of stuff maybe. Not every country has the pleasure to enjoy a school system swimming in money to offer computers to kids, in every single school. Not even during COVID was every Portuguese family granted the pleasure to have a device offered to them, some lucky ones did, a large majority only saw them on the news, and as usual the burden was on the family to come up with a solution to all their kids attending the various school levels. And lets not even go to such great stuff like Magalhães, e-escola, and who got to profit from it.
- ncruces 10mo agoI'm writing from personal experience in a middle of the table public school, with a single IT guy helping out around 1000 pupils, who regularly get their computers locked with said MDM. It's possible other school districts with a less diligent, but similarly overworked, IT guy just give up and don't even hand out the computers anymore, especially if they don't have enough of them, after being on their second or third kid.
- pjmlp 10mo agoThose are certainly above 6 grade, because I am aware of few schools, whose desktop computers, with luck get to a have a visit from some local computer store, on demand after lots back and forth with the regional ministerium office regarding how it gets paid. None of them has hardly an IT guy, or girl on site, and as usual "em casa de ferreiro espeto de pau", acquaitances have been invited to have a look at their computers.
- bigyabai 10mo agoESRB would like a word with you.
- motoxpro 10mo agoI've been saying the same thing about my netflix movies on spotify. The both have video and are both in the app store running on the same OS!