The idea that a state government is unnecessarily at the mercy of any corporation is hard to comprehend. Especially, as in this case, a foreign corporation.
Open source shouldn't only be the standard for governments. It should be the minimum requirement.
Those splice type of cheats require a highly skilled player who can play well for short amounts of time.
Another thing is that I feel like the era of the private phone number has passed. I see the use case for phone numbers for businesses, but people just don't use them very much anymore otherwise.
Like, we don't memorize them. We don't dial them. They're just entries in our contacts.
At this point, we could create an alternative way of contacting private phones. Something based on whitelisting instead of blacklisting. Something that can be easily shared but not easily guessed. Something that would be easy to trace who called you.
All of these phone scams rely on the idea that a stranger can just up and contact you without any effort. It's ridiculous. If we got rid of that, we'd save people from untold billions of dollars of scams almost instantly.
My computer is good enough to run any games I want to play, even recently released FPS types of games at reasonably high settings. Still not good enough for Win11. My weak-ass tablet, though, was upgraded straight away.
Even people who build their own computers usually buy all the RAM they want at the time that they're building it.
The biggest difference to them is likely the feeling that they're losing their ability to upgrade, more than the actual upgrade itself. I still think that feeling is an important factor, though.
I forget where I heard it from, but somebody said that it's strange how we believe that if we go back in time and make a small change, it will have a huge effect on the future, but we also believe that making small changes today won't make any difference in the future.
Do you remember a few years ago, it came out that some company was working on a new idea that, when you were given an advertisement on a TV, it could require you to say the product name aloud or it wouldn't continue?
I try not to concede anything related to advertising because everything they want seems so dystopian.
This is kind of an intentional cognitive dissonance for Twitch due to its having a conflict of interests.
On the one hand, it wants to tell viewers and advertisers that it cracks down on adult only content.
But on the other hand, the more adult content they let through, the more money they make.
It would be very easy to either make an age restricted section where adult stuff would be allowed, or to completely banish streamers who are the modern equivalent of burlesque. But one is bad PR and the other is bad for revenue.
I read relatively slowly, but I have the ability to read much faster. I simply like reading more slowly. I have this weird suspicion that people who read very quickly are getting information more quickly, but that they're either not absorbing it fully, or they're not enjoying it as much as I do. But that's obviously a biased perspective.
Every part of your comment has something factually wrong or fallacious.
I don’t get feedback just because you read it.
My reading the part I am giving feedback on is a prerequisite for actually giving feedback. I am obviously a person who graciously responded to your request, not somebody that you somehow ordered to give feedback. I don't know what you think you gain from viewing it this way.
I’m thankful for feedback but my sentence was accurate.
I didn't say it was inaccurate, but that it didn't tell people why to read the article. You didn't ask me to tell you inaccuracies. You asked for "feedback". You also don't seem to be thankful, because if you were thankful, you'd simply accept the feedback instead of throwing up straw-man arguments.
I don’t benefit if you read it.
You have exactly repeated your previous statement that I already proved wrong.
I will offer you one last piece of feedback. Just stop arguing. You can never look gracious pursuing an argument where you ask for advice and then argue with people who took time out of their day to help you.
Upvotes and downvotes don't determine whether people are factually right, but they do help you gauge what people think when they read your comments, and what I'm seeing is that you're not ingratiating yourself to the people who you are asking to read your article. Even if you could win this argument, and you can't, you wouldn't want to, because you'd look bad in doing so. When you ask for feedback, and feedback is given, just graciously accept it. If it's bad feedback, then just ignore it.
I don’t benefit if you read it.
You don't benefit financially, but there are other benefits. For example, you specifically asked for feedback, and you have received some.
Since these people aren't treating any ear injury, you might as well call these "ear diapers."