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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
A) Money does talk B) Completely irrelevant. That anything can be used for both good and bad does not invalidate the push for stopping bad applications. C) "advancement of AI in general" is not an inherent good. And even if it w
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Death is a bit extreme. I think acquisition is much more likely.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> wasm html5 app That would seem a little anathema to a imgui library aiming to be native on multiple platforms and to have minimum dependencies.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> is worth letting Meta create its own app store that allows privacy shenanigans that Apple has successfully banned The enemy of my enemy is not my friend. If Meta is doing impinging on people's privacy we need to make it illegal,
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
I guess I’d like to see some examples of games being pulled from stores and also from the libraries of paid customers.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
You are describing websites and the state of desktop computing.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
The horror of having different companies allowed to set their own rules for how they interact with people. This scenario is how websites and the web as a whole work, it’s how macOS and windows work. And if you have concerns about privacy or
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Apple interests do not align. They continue to allow blatantly predatory “games” which use the mechanics and terminology of gambling to take advantage of people. With one side of their mouth they talk about the evils of tracking and adverti
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
See my other comment. Streaming services are not comparable; games purchased on one store do not leave your library the way shows leave streaming services. And there’s no “juggling”, none of these have ongoing costs. If people can juggle ge
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Having to click, once, between different stores if you really care about a game is not some convoluted process. And analogies to streaming services don’t hold up for a few reasons: 1. There’s no ongoing cost to have an account at the each,
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
We already have third parties meant to intervene on behalf of the customers: the government. The FTC and consumer protection agencies are elected by people (even if indirectly). Apple does not act in the best interest of its customers. No
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
This horrible scenario you’re describing is the World Wide Web: each company free to sell their software on their website directly to consumers. This is the reality on Apple’s own macOS. This is a pretty weak boogeyman.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
One App Store per application, almost like if they would sell software straight from their website. What a horrible scenario.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> Adobe App Store You’re describing a website with a purchase button, the exact situation we have on all non-mobile devices. > Look at the Windows game stores situation. Yes and look at their competition: GoG, Steam, Humble Bundle,
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Consumers who wish to stay entirely within apple’s app store can continue doing just that. There’s no change for them.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
It will help customers though. It helps no one but Apple that Apple collects a 30% tax on everything with no real way of cutting them out. It helps no one that I can’t buy kindle books on my iPhone, or subscribe to certain streaming service
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
How many browsers do you know that charge their users?
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Each product could stand on its own and act in the best interest of its users (could not would, not a given). E.g. Android and Chrome would act less like lead generation for ads. Why do certain browsers come with adblocking built in but Chr
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Except this is a clear racket and not a regular cost of doing business. Imagine Microsoft tomorrow deciding to require 30% of even a fraction of things happing on windows. Imagine Apple trying to do this on the Mac. It's laughably anti
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
30% of a negative number, I'll take that deal in a heartbeat.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Absurd. What next, they want a 30% cut from me when I set up automatic payments for my credit card through the banks iOS app?
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
The option of doing nothing would be the default since it doesn’t cost them any time, people, or resources. Any other option requires sustained positive actions on their part. There are many versions, alternatives, to what that course would
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> We should be as exactly horrified as we are by the fact the US dropped convential high explosives and incendaries on civilians. Not exactly. Having firebombs at our disposal does not require the head of one country to have unaccounta
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
While a nice meme, it doesn't at all take away from the point that many large companies operate like planned economies, ee for example Walmart: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/636-the-people-s-r... )
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
My money goes to Amazon, my credit statements say Amazon, my customer support is through Amazon, my returns are through Amazon, the website I go to is Amazon, the boxes I get say Amazon. To a buyer, they are acting in a way that is indistin
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> My article shows that the impact of the overhead of OOP ... So my main point is you should be very mindful of the time scales involved. But if the overhead of OOP, as shown both by you and by Casey in his original video, makes up a sig
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
*Linux Distro Evolution for gaming
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Look into the business practices of the companies that make the games and refuse to support those which perpetuate problems (looking at you Blizzard Activision).
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Given the surprise with FOGBANK, I don’t have high hopes for it going fast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Treating the commons (the air) as your free sewer is worse.

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