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Cake day: November 5th, 2023

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  • That is another situation

    Amazon is a seller. Steam is (aside from selling) a service provider with their workshop, forum, etc

    While it would be way better if those were all in a different tier for devs, so for example they can select to get less of a share for those features, what they are basically doing is sidestepping a provider

    Or in the case of photography:

    You go to a Photo shop and lend their camera equipment and services for free, but they take a 20% cut for every copy of that picture sold.

    If you buy a picture, you can download it indefinitely and get some services like changing the color grading on the website. The photo shop hosts the picture for free and only makes a profit through selling licenses. The owner also has an option to get infinite licenses for these services for free.

    What youre allowed to do is host the picture on your own, pay your own cloud provider, and sell the picture that way.

    What youre not allowed to do is generate infinite licenses for free and sell them without ever paying the photo shop for their services, while still using them.



  • You know how many times I tried to install some driver on windows, just for it to say fuck you?

    • install windows Euro version

    • it dosent include direct sound

    • direct sound is probably a directx lib, install that

    • nope, I look it up (for euro version of course)

    • I should go to the „add or remove features”

    • type into searchbar, find it instantly

    • can’t find

    • apparently I’ve been using the legacy version thats accessible and correctly indexed in the search bar. What I need is the new thing with the same name that is only accessible in 3 sub menus

    • so basically if I want to install dhcp servers, hypervisor etc, I need the old menu, but if I want libs for those or slightly different versions I need the new menu

    • install

    • wat 10 mins at a loading bar that tells me nothing, just for it to fail with no error code

    • repeat until I go back to linux



  • 3,99$ is really cheap

    I hot my 20th anniversary 2 disc one for like 15-20€ from my father, which kinda started my whole physical CD hobby

    And then my first print with those paper covers and a plastic holder in the middle for 2€ at a flea market

    But since this seems like a reprint (jewelcase and all), I think it would still go for 5-10€




  • Thats what gpg already does

    But honestly I don’t see how it could be trusted. GPG is based on your social circles verifying your Gpg key to prevent fakes, which this just doesn’t have

    Also the thing just does not make sense. The website says this is a workaround for authorities not serving an ID, but they should somehow accept this one??? The only reason someone dosent serve you because of a passport is because they are working by the rules of the authority thats not giving you an ID in the first place

    This is very much like one of those gag articles like


  • West germany was a police state until the 68er kicked off. It still was one, the 68er --> RAF conversion rate was just too low to change it.

    Notably, the CDU/CSU were fashists back then even not wanting the RAF to have a trial

    But I can’t say that the DDR was really better tho, with Honecker not giving a shit about reforms, it was doomed to fail.

    But I would really like an alternative universe where private businesses are taxed way more in order to fund the DDR style of state owned businesses, essentially acting as a replacement for Bürgergeld but in a way where people who are not desirable in a capitalist market can still work, climb the ladder and find themselves with all the social benefits of a social system