much larger comision

GoG, every console, play store, and Apple store take the same cut. Itch io is strange and takes a smaller cut but only indie games publish there in the first place. Epic and (windows) Microsoft store take 12%, but they fucking suck and you know they're evil fucks that would definitely fuck you and publishers over as hard as they could if they ever got the market share. I couldn't immediately find numbers for all the various publisher run stores (I'm not even sure if arbitrary games can sell on them) like the ubisoft one but they also fucking suck and are run by evil fucks.

It would be awesome if steam took a smaller cut, but complaining about it like it's not the same cut everyone else that has marketshare takes and accounting for the ones that do take less being garbage run by public companies trying to buy marketshare then enshitify is disingenuous.

I know a lot of people including me that haven't bought a switch 2 after owning every nintendo console released in their lifetime because they're disgusted with with Nintendo's behavior. I'm sure some percentage of them will cave eventually but it's definitely a non-zero amount of money they've left on the table by being like this

• replacing human workers is their fondest dream so they want to believe so hard
• they have FOMO "everyone else is doing it and I don't want to lose out"
• everyone else is doing it and if they didn't do it and were wrong, it would be worse for their reputation than following the pack and being wrong
• c suite types talk to each other and they've formed an echo chamber

In summary, CEOs (of large public companies anyway - your mom and pop plumber could also be a CEO) are not smarter than the average person. Just more amoral and having the connections to be CEOs

I'm the US at least, animal agriculture is heavily subsidized, so consumers don't see what it actually costs. Supply/demand economics everyone learned in school rarely applies amidst the chicanery rampant everywhere.

Anyone paying attention knew this would be the case. The AI economy is a fucking shell game

LLMs don't add an abstraction layer. You can't competently produce software without understanding what they're outputting.

You're right about Linux but you're wrong about windows. It is sent to the event loop in windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/window-notifications. It's been a long time since it was my job, but you actually had to pass a certification that your application exited gracefully in response to these messages as part of the partner program back in the day.

Oh cool unjustified FUD

If it makes the code easier to maintain it's good. If it doesn't make the code easier to maintain it is bad.

Making interfaces for everything, or making getters and setters for everything, just in case you change something in the future makes the code harder to maintain.

This might make sense for a library, but it doesn't make sense for application code that you can refactor at will. Even if you do have to change something and it means a refactor that touches a lot, it'll still be a lot less work than bloating the entire codebase with needless indirections every day.

Perp walks shouldn't be a thing in the first place. At it's best it's bullshit theater to drum up sentiment that someone is guilty pretrial

AI tools are way less useful than a junior engineer, and they aren't an investment that turns into a senior engineer either.

I like arch because:

• it is rolling release and I like having up to date software and not having to deal with distro upgrades breaking things
• it is community run and not beholden to a company
• packages are mostly unmodified from their upstream
• the wiki and forums are the best of any distro

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