Elegant, efficient code? Who needs that shit?

Speaking of factorio, it is the example of “If you want your game to have true replay value, the best thing you can do is embrace the modding community”.

Factorio made mods first class citizens and reaped the rewards.

I can’t read the link but if we just gauge the health of the indie game portion of the industry by how many games are released, I think the only conclusion you can make is that it’s quite healthy. In no small part due to steam which provides discoverability for smaller titles and handles a lot of the technical stuff (downloads, multi-player, even drm) so indie devs don’t have to.

You just seem to have a chip on your shoulder in this department and it’s not clear why other than “billionaires are bad”.

Well, that sure took a turn I wasn’t expecting.

Provide one example if it’s so ubiquitous. I have been following the EGS discourse for years and never seen anyone complain about the free games.

Maybe complaints about how the games aren’t worth it because you have to use EGS, sure. I’ve made that joke myself. That’s a different complaint though.

Go ask any indie developer if they think the 30% cut valve takes from sales through steam means they’re “getting fucked”. I can assure you, the vast majority do not.

Serving files, absorbing the costs of credit card payments and charge backs, and maintaining community forums is worth the 30% alone. Hell, just being able to list your product on the most popular store is worth it for some people.

In my industry, physical stores won’t even consider stocking your product for less than 40pts of margin and the big guys expect you to absorb the freight costs as well.

30% on storefront sales and you can sell your own keys for 100% profit on your own site is more than fair.

I’m sure you came up with that 5% number after careful research and didn’t just pull some low round number out of your ass.

/s

Nobody shit on epic for giving away free games. You can’t just make a completely false statement like that.

People don’t like epic because they bought games and made them exclusive to their store.

Turns out you’re correct. I appreciate the correction.

Vegas is almost entirely powered by the hoover dam. It’s already pretty green as far as energy goes. The question will be where do they get their power from in a few years when lake mead dries up.

I’m not passing blame. Just giving an example.

I can kind of feel the author on this. I’m in charge of a lot of “special projects” at work that basically come down to, “figure out a way to replicate this extremely expensive technology or software using low cost or free alternatives”. It ends up being an unholy mix of programs and hardware that is held together with duct tape and super glue and any minor perturbation means something breaks.

Ehrlich Bachman, this is your mom and you, you are not my baby.

Yes, that’s my point. If you have a library full of 1080 h264 then the pi 4 is a better choice. The Pi5 will struggle with software decoding compared to the 4.

At the end of the day, they’re different boards with different use cases. I think a lot of people don’t appreciate that enough.

There are two separate entities: the raspberry pi foundation which is the charity and unchanged, and the raspberries pi holdings company which has always been the business side of the project. The corporation contributes to the foundation a significant amount of money which is not changing. The charity is the majority stakeholder in the company.

Here’s the founder explaining it

https://youtu.be/EoSPR_dZnYg?feature=shared

For a standard media center, kodi is pretty great.

That assumes your media collection is all hevc. That’s not the case for most people.

Pi5 doesn’t have h264 hardware. Pi4 is probably better for media centers right now.

Maybe. I’ll be the first one to call out bad behavior but at this point it’s just knee jerk anticorporate fervor.

The worst thing raspberry pi ever did is dare to be an electronic company during the worst electronics part shortage in our lifetime. People complaining they couldn’t get a pi to do their dinky personal project are the epitome of having first world problems. Prices and availability have been back to normal for over a year now and people still gripe about it. I’m just over it.

I’m sorry but all of these doom and gloom comments are insufferable.

A. The raspberry pis that you have known and loved are all still around and, considering inflation, cheaper than ever. If you’re complaining about prices, stop buying from scalpers!

B. All this talk of enshittification and decline is purely and 100% speculative. You are acting like your catastrophic fears are a forgone conclusion when they’re, at best, a guess.