This feels penny wise dollar stupid, by the restaurant.

If I go into an all-you-can-eat restaurant, and a person like this guy isn’t there being treated like royalty for being a regular, I know the food, and the vibe, will suck, and I’m not coming back.

The whole thing reeks of bad management, by an owner or manager who has no idea what line of business they’re in.

I think Warframe is the only (non-open source) free to play game I have nice things to say about.

I never felt any pressure to pay, but every few months of playing and I would think, “I feel like I should chip these folks some cash, again”.

And then they do make it fun to chuck them some money.

Most of the purchasables may as well just say “trust us, it’s fun”, for all I understood any of them before buying. (I think I bought maybe 4 frames while playing for about a year.)

After playing for awhile, I do trust them. I’ve not been disappointed with any purchased frame or item - with the understanding that both are pretty much just amusing “thank you” gimmicks for supporting.

Warframe has been a good time. I sort of expect it to enshitify at any moment, but for now they seem chill.

F-Droid is great.

Aurora is more effort than Google Play, but I find Aurora so much more honest about tracking technologies in each app.

Regarding sandboxing, I think so, but installing an app on GrapheneOS is already so much better than on any other operating system.

I just install apps normally and don’t give them any permission I don’t feel like they need.

If I realize why an app needs some permission, later - I can adjust the permissions and try again.

It will help my hat taste better.

Stupidest timeline.

I also noticed how much Bill Gates didn’t address his ties to Epstein here. Of course, addressing those ties probably wouldn’t help with my suspicion that he’s a rapist abuser.

Can we correct the title to “Epstein associate Bill Gates calls for…” ?

There’s a good chance of most of that, but I’ll eat my hat if any of the Epstein crew face any real consequences this soon.

Makes sense. Building a home ‘steam machine’ alternative for my home TV has been on my own todo list for awhile. (Unless I can get my hands om the real deal before I get around to it, I suppose.)

Thanks.

Thats makes me wonder if the dip there is natural wear and tear taking SteamDecks out of play, and folks not replacing them because there were none in stock for awhile this summer.

Does anyone have their Steam Holo yet? Or could that drop just be all of the Valve staff taking a break from their game testing?

Yes. I was interested until I realized it’s Capcom.

Capcom needs to work much harder to rehab their reputation with me. I recall them adding DRM to games where, to me, it made no sense. Including weird, seemingly random timing for the change.

I get how there’s an argument to be had about fair online play, and stopping early pirates. But sometimes Capcom seems to me yo just be rolling dice, or trying yo meet an internal DRM use quota.

Bad llm code is just as bad as bad human code.

Bad LLM code is worse than bad human code. LLMs sanitize out markers that humans use to catch and correct mistakes.

Eye contact is benign for most of us. We still give it a context warning in civilized circles. It costs us almost nothing, and lets people make an informed decision what you engage with.

Or does America have a unilatera free pass from trade dispute resolution

Maybe, or maybe not. But some rich folks - unaccustomed to consequences for their actions - feel that the only way to be sure is to put it to the test.

Art belongs to all of us.

Yes!

I hope we can ensure that future generations remember Harriet Potter as a trans woman hero, long after Rowling has been forgotten.

And we can do that without giving Rowling any money.

Lots of organizations have a “ooh scary Linux” server or two that they rely on, but failed to retain the talent needed to maintain it. If you’ve been running desktop Linux, and know some basic command line tools, you’re way ahead of most people they will interview for the role.

The downside is that they might feel that they can maybe just keep ignoring their problem for another year, and some will.

That’s such bullshit.

For anyone affected, don’t wait. Get yourself F-Droid, and you can have Luanti immediately after.

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.minetest.minetest

That guy is clearly an expert.

You can look up the composition of each index, before you buy it.

Usually I need a web search to map the stock ticker to a holding company and then another wwb search to map the holding company to a real company.

You’ll see heavy amounts of Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Amazon in anything that is just blindly buying with an algorithm - almost as if algorithm companies are good at fooling an algorithm…

Searching for funds with a non-technology focus will help, or searching for funds that focus on providing a dividend return (today’s biggest tech companies are deep in debt and usually don’t pay a quarterly dividend.)

Companies that do routinely pay a dividend are under some pressure to resoond to their customers rather than to CEO hype waves.