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I preface this with the caveat that all grants are subjective and you can like what you like.

Stardew Valley is a love letter to the harvest Moon games(and I guess rune factory as well). If you have ever encountered those games you immediately know what to do in Stardew.

I think where Stardew is different is that it came later and benefited massively from the "cozy game" popularity.

While I played harvest Moon on a super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Gameboy my girl friend who did not have that exposure growing up loves Stardew. This generational and gender Crossing game has tapped markets that were not available back then. Couple that with the fact that at this point you can play that game on basically any platform from phone to console, new and old and it's totally understandable why this headline might be true.

It does not but the game industry has a lot of parallel to the movie industry l where some parts are very unionized.

Any male dominated channel that ever "gives advice" gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.

I like stand up comedy and it's a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.

That doesn't even take into account that a lot of rails in the US are owned by Canadian companies.

The average person doesn't even have a proper computer anymore. I guess you're can still torrent on your phone but I've not tried it.

So funny thing about Aylo, which used to be called mind geek, they own quite a lot of porn sites. Probably 5 or 6 of the top ten.

The hacker community it's very focused on Linux since most servers in the world run it. The fly by night script kiddies and botnet creators definitely prefer end user systems though.

The disagree is for soft walking things. They give you the choice so people feel like they have one and don't complain, then in the future they will continue to ask everything anything changes and if you accidentally agree they will never ask you again.

It really depends on what Trump means by " built in the US". It won't be that big of a jump if Apple is just assembling them there. If every component has to come from the US it's likely impossible.

Apple is vertically integrated in a way many companies are not. It would be bad for them for sure but they already have really high profit margins. They could eat the cost and assemble in the US, but they won't because they are already a velban good.

Let me give you a bit of the outside of the story as well.

For sure tiktok and meta and Google want you in their walled Garden for all the obvious reasons. However, and it's gotten even worse as of late, if you have any kind of computationally expensive but desirable content/data the crawlers/scrapers/scripters will pummel your site. Despite how annoying you find the captchas and bot detection a computer doesn't give too shits about it and at this point they basically serve as a rate limit or effort to make your content too computationally expensive to scrape and be worth it.

While accounts don't necessarily solve this problem they do help as another impediment.

I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.

That's true and not true at the same time. The one advantage Windows has in this regard is that everyone is working on the same "distro" as it were. With Linux the various components can vary enough to be confusing. I think that is why it's important to choose a distro with a sizeable community.

Something like Ubuntu, or an arch derivative like endeavouros are a good choice for that reason.

I would also warm against the copy paste of commands that you don't know what you are doing with. The one nice thing is that in 2025 you can drop a command into your choice of LLM assistant and get a pretty good description of what it does without breaking out the man pages.