China is not communist in any form anymore, they’re authoritarian late stage techno-capitalism with remnants of communist social structures. And before someone says “but they execute billionaires”, they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires’ profits, they never execute billionaires for being billionaires or for making those billions by exploiting the workers.
I don’t buy games on steam so I can have them in the future. I buy them on steam so I can play them today, so I can easily reinstall them, so I can have my save files synced across devices and and reinstalls.
The day steam gets enshitified where it isn’t giving me that convenience is the day I stop using it. Most of my library was purchased for <$10 in summer sales, I’ve played their worth and then some. If Valve disappears tomorrow and my steam library with it, there’s only a handful of games I might repurchase, I wouldn’t be that devastated.
I don’t make a living off it, my life doesn’t depend on it, I don’t need it… it’s entertainment and convenience that I want today, and valve allows me to play more and more of library on Linux every day, which is great because I’ve completely uninstalled Windows.
In contrast, I don’t use streaming services, where you’re not even guaranteed access to the media TODAY. I wouldn’t use Steam if it was a subscription.
It’s not about defending valve, it’s about not buying epic’s pro consumer rhetoric. They have a worse product, a history of anti consumer practices, and you shouldn’t let them use you to gain leverage to be able to abuse you more.
Steam is DRM, but so is Epic. And if the two, Steam/valve have contributed meaningfully to open source software and the gaming industry. In a world where capitalism rules, Steam/Valve is hardly the worst option.
I for one look forward to the Steam Deck; my HP Reverb G2 became a paperweight when it lost support overnight after a Windows update, and while it’s not completely open, I expect valve’s headset to be supported for as long as the hardware survives.
Fuck DRM, but if you want to pay for convenience and don’t care about owning your games, Steam is the best option.
GitHub copilot within visual studio is not bad actually, if it doesn’t find anything to but typos then congrats your team is all competent senior developers…
It does cut down review time for juniors’ work, and it’s capable of implementing full features given the correct documentation and instructions. It’s a useful tool that assists and doesn’t replace competent developers.
I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server
But you don’t currently? So it doesn’t.
Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.
Always happy to put on display how widespread the American empire’s destruction is and how pervasive their propaganda and and influence are.
Most of the world’s problems today can be directly traced back to American capitalism.
Armenia apparently learned nothing from the Armenian genocide, fully banding the knees to the American empire and announcing their unapologetic support for Israel.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4
They literally hired people in India (Indians) to review camera footage to make their walk out tech work and to improve the AI to eventually eliminate their own job.
It’s sloppy. They cobbles the existing self hosted java app into a SAAS, but it’s a horrible foundation. They should have rewritten it, but that’s asking them to pay developers instead of executives and profit was clearly prioritized.
The fact that you think the US is only doing fucked up shit “right now” shows that you have no understanding of US imperialism and colonialism.
Iran government bad. US government and Jewish ISIS are way worse, and not just now.
You’re mixing a few real dynamics with a lot of propaganda framing.
Yes, China uses industrial policy and subsidized credit, and yes, firms can price aggressively to gain market share. But pretending the U.S. is some pure “market” victim is absurd when it literally did the same thing via public-credit industrial policy. The Biden-era battery buildout you cite is a perfect example: the public underwrites corporate risk, and when demand softens the companies pause projects, restructure deals, and keep the upside private. Ford/SK On’s “big national strategy” became delays, a JV breakup, and loan restructuring; Stellantis/Samsung is ramping cautiously amid volatility. That isn’t “saving U.S. industry,” it’s socializing risk and then calling it patriotism.
Also, “TEMU EVs” is just culture-war branding. The issue isn’t that consumers are “dumb,” it’s that working people are getting squeezed, and cheaper cars matter when wages lag and housing/healthcare eat the paycheck. If you want to defend tariffs or targeted restrictions, make the case honestly on labor, climate, and supply-chain resilience, not xenophobic moral panic.
And the funniest part is you invoke BYD debt like it’s uniquely scandalous while ignoring the mountain of subsidies, tax abatements, and cheap financing that props up U.S. automakers and battery JVs. If you’re worried about state-backed capital distorting markets, congratulations: you’re arguing against capitalism as it actually exists, not for it.
If we’re going to spend public money on industrial capacity, attach enforceable labor standards, community guarantees, and public equity or governance rights. Otherwise it’s a corporate welfare program with a flag taped to it.
People downvoting facts simply because they contradict their own stated position tells so much. They want cheap Chinese EVs but can’t accept that what they defended as protecting American companies (Biden’s tariffs) and making EVs more affordable for Americans (Biden’s EV tax credit) are the reasons they can’t have cheap Chinese EVs.
Instead of reflecting on the progranda they’ve been consuming, they downvote and move on to repeat the same nonsense later. I’m relieved they didn’t call me a tankie Russian bot this time for suggesting Biden wasn’t an angel.
Because Biden said you could? He’s the one that doubled tariffs on Chinese EVs from 50% to 100%. Biden also gave the EV tax credit which was essentially a subsidy to Tesla, which Trump ended.
Note that I’m not defending Trump, but simply noting that the US was heading in his direction. He’s a symptom of advanced disease, but you don’t get to blame him all the shitty things all US presidents ever did. He’s a raging tumor, but the cancer was spreading already.
Well, it can come from palm/coconut oil for example, it doesn’t only come from animals, and vegans with familial hypercholesterolemia want you to shut the fuck up.
Yeah, air fryer has significantly more airflow than a additional convection oven, and the fan is right behind the hearing element instead of on the sidewall.
It delivers heat and circulates it more effectively. An oven with proper “air fryer” function usually has multiple of large fans that go above the heating element.
That’s the thing though, you don’t need to trust them, you trust public key cryptography. And unless the NSA has secretly solved that, Proton cannot hand anything to anyone, because they can’t access anything but encrypted data.
If the NSA solved that, they don’t need Proton’s cooperation, they can just intercept the encrypted traffic directly.
You don’t need to trust Proton inherently, all their apps are open source and you can verify the encryption yourself. They hold your encrypted data and you hold the keys.
The only thing they could be lying about is keeping VPN logs, but there’s no credible reason to believe they are. They do annual third-party audits of their infrastructure to confirm no logs, but if you’re depending strictly on VPN to hide data you think the government is interested in, you’re doing it wrong.
They cannot hand over your emails, because they don’t have the keys. But email is an inherently insecure communication method, and any email you send to a non proton recipient is visible to that recipient’s provider.
They can see the subject line and the recipient’s address, because they need to know where to transfer the email and send notifications with the subject line, but they are transparent about that.
Guessing: when the image is not being updated (you’re reading an article and not scrolling, you’re looking at a photo, etc), the display will change the referral refresh rate to 1 frame per second, which will drastically reduce power consumption.
That’s how it works on other devices that have this feature, at least.
You can’t charge your phone and use your USB headphones at the same time, without a dongle.
If this isn’t a use case for you, you should understand that it is a use case for others, and it’s a problem that was solved before manufacturers forced it on it. Give me two USB ports and maybe I’ll be satisfied, though I’m sure others still have a use case for 3.5mm and will still need a dongle…
The worst dependency hell is when a library has a strict version dependency, and another library uses that same dependency. When the second library updates their minimum version of the dependency to one that is higher than the exact version needed for the first, THAT’S dependency hell.