Thought it’s probably fine after reading the title, but this shit isn’t fine. What the fuck.

These companies might want their platforms to be free from google’s control, but that’s only because they want to have that control for themselves.

Every android skin is an “OS” these days. I wonder how much “it’s own” it would be.

An app store for linux.

I tried taking the whole charging port out and going at it with a little brush, no improvement.

Try the toothpick or something stronger than a brush anyway. I have used a toothpick and a sewing needle to dig the compacted lint out.

Not the vrm looking things, but the red spots. It looks diseased.

Why did the ai fill the board with pimples?

Might be a bit too late for that.

Why would it be illegal, or unethical? I don’t really see any reason.

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EU is way too large of a market to “lock out.” Didn’t happen with Apple, for example.

For subscription hell, we’re deeper into it than is healthy, but I don’t expect it to take over because of this. Steam, which is the biggest, most profitable platform out there doesn’t even offer a subscription and shouldn’t be hurt by this. For competitors, trying to suddenly force everyone into a subscription would lose a lot of business.

Edit: Anyway, doing nothing about it is a guaranteed bad outcome.

It’s not supposed to be a finished law at this point. The main take from the initiative is that digital games have a massive issue with anti-consumer practices, and that consumers demand something to be done about it.

How would this exactly backfire in your view?

Most of HMD’s efforts, like that “repairable” phone are a joke. I’m not particularly impressed with this either, but it seems that the pogo pins provide standard USB, which could enable some fun hacks.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/wcfotm6rrl7u/3KBmYBnMpossUdxFxZOC7Z/6414fafda9add20684dba2f957627eda/HMD_Fusion_Development_Toolkit_-_V1_-_February_2024.pdf

Nice going. Maybe EU can beat some sense into digital “ownership”.

Guess I should give it a proper look, then.

It is actually useful?

In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.

Time to start max payne

I’m guessing these are all just very recent.

Have 2 keyboards, but that just doesn’t do it. But if I somehow manage to get a more isolated home, I’ll fucking do it for real.

That’s amazing, though I’m not sure people living on the other side of my walls would appreciate it.