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Would you say the technology is developed far enough?

I'm definitely interested, as the phone screen size is often a bit too small. But any mechanical movement makes me nervous on a small device that should last multiple years.

"Mile wide and inch deep" is a great way to put it.

I'm playing through the game right now, and there's a bunch of small annoyances (like getting stuck on invisible terrain while walking/driving), but I can overlook those. But so many things are lifeless beyond the basic game mechanics.

As an example, I just bought an expensive apartment. I didn't expect a crazy cutscene or anything, but at least the person I bought it from should have shown some kind of reaction, maybe a short dialogue. But no, nothing. I pressed the button, money was subtracted, and I can enter the elevator. The person I bought it from didn't even look up.

Compare that to something like Baldurs Gate 3, where even small unlikely interactions have surprising amounts of interactivity. The game oozes life out of every pore.

It's depressing that this is the final state after so many updates.

They apparently like making memes shitting on people & things without really understanding why, like the one for the NVidia CEO

Actually the Red Star developers seem very serious

What are you referring to by "OSI"? Not the 7 layer model, but that's all I can find. It's good to explain abbreviations when they're not the most common usage of that abbreviation.

If they don't have my contacts, they can't spoof a number from my contacts. If they just spoof local numbers, the chance of them choosing one of my contacts is incredibly slim.

And how does a scammer get my contacts?

Wrong sub, this article is about The Onion

Well yes, you didn't get first ads. But what about second ads?

Well if it were closed source, it would be harder to repackage proprietary apps because you would not know how the snap “root filesystem” translates to $DISTRO root filesystem.

Only if all the other tools (like Snapcraft) were also made closed-source and obfuscated, but that's besides the point. What if, for example, Snaps start costing money, and you can't legally turn them into Flatpaks and distribute them? What if the only legal way to get some software for Linux will be the official Snap repository? This approach will make for a far worse user experience than simply using the already working, already open-source and non-enshittifiable alternative.

Because some apps are only packaged as snaps so if you want them to be accessible to users, you have to install snapd. Flatpak can still be the default which on non-Canonical distros already is. Which why I don’t even worry about snap becoming the standard.

And by promoting Snap to the same status as Flatpaks on other distributions, you're opening the gates for enshittification and a worse user experience tomorrow. Again, why support it as an equal option if we all know the price?

Don't forget that macOS literally contacts Apple server for every binary you execute. When there was an issue with those servers, only Apple software was launchable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

I'm aware, it was mostly a joke about these "features" making Notepad worse. Nevertheless, thank you :)

More like Notepad--, amirite