Steam wallet can be used by this. You can top your steam wallet by 5-10-20 and so on. Wonder how this would be tracked by payment processors if it even can.

I guess it was so successful that they have decided to come back to Steam now that they could afford to.

Ubisoft had success with UPlay in the past

The whole case is about Valve forcing other storefronts to sell at the same price as these publishers sell in Steam. Key point is that allegedly Valve requires this even if the game is sold not with a Steam key, but publishers own. Allegedly. Time will tell if they actually do it or not.

So far Ubisoft and WB hasnt had a great reputation in gaming community, so there should be no surprises why most gamers side with Valve.

Obligatory big if true

This is what they allegedly do coming out of this article. Until court resolves the problem, it is only a speculation. Ubisoft and WB have bad reputation in gaming and gamedev circles compared to Valve, so I would take their word with a grain of salt.

Add to that the fact that some gun parts are not printable and have to be made out of metal. Printing an entire firearm on a $500 3D printer is possible but that gun will be good enough for 1 bullet, and probably will hurt shooter at that.

Also, if inmates can make a handgun out of whatever they have access at prison - 3d printing is the afterthought. Some parts can be bought in a department store, the others can be ordered online as a replacement parts. If someone really wants to make a gun themselves, 3D printing ban wont stop them.

Valve Liquidity

Officially too old and senile.

I been discovering lately that many people in my circles are using Signal. I fucking hate whatsapp and would love to switch to Signal. But this dumb fuck app is too common around here. That is such a relief that these people do have it. Baby steps.

True! Messaging. Forgot about it. I’ll add.

What a typical phone user does on their phone?

• Overwhelmingly - scroll social media
• Messaging
• listen to music
• watch videos
• make some pictures and videos
• scan QR codes
• maybe - send files
• maybe - download and print out a PDF
• maybe - read a book
• maybe, JUST MAYBE - stock/currency/crypto trading

Influencers may be using their phone more for editing and filming, but that is it.

Nothing I can think of would benefit from AI. Maybe trading, but that AFAIK is a terrible idea.

Edit: Forgot messaging. AI doesn’t help with this one much either.

A year ago I got 2x SATA cheapo SSDs - 1TB at $56 and 2TB at $106. Today the same listings are over double that price.

Even HDDs are expensiver now. 2.5" 1TB is $60. In January I got 12TB WD HDD for $220. Today it is $460.

FUCK AI!

Did AI wrote this title? That is like a whole paragraph just in the title itself…

May and must are two different words. May they implement or must they implement?

Ability to get a subscription of Proton VPN in China and Russia doesn’t necessarily mean that they are not blocked. If you can get a subscription to a service your country desperately is trying to block, it is probably not in a straight “go to website, pay, get service” way. You probably had to find workarounds to get it. That does not count as “operating in this country”.

It is like “Amazon does not operate in this country”, but you got a friend in the one which does, so you just order form him and ask him to send goods by post.

China and Russia - Proton VPN does not work there.

USA - it works. Is there some laws I dont know about that USA has in order to gather data from VPN providers?

They do not have to comply with Canadian laws unless they want to operate in Canada. Then they have to comply.

The difference between you and vibe coders is that you might be doing a small project for yourself and wont care if it gets updated, bug fixed and code polished.

Vibe coders think they made a great product that they present to the masses, then just abandon it when people raise some issues.

Prime example: Huntarr.

Seems that company is not exactly nice enough. But as an owner of a device myself, I cannot recommend it more.

I got 6490 used because one that comes with ISP is crap, new is 170eur, and I cannot connect anything else but DOCSIS cable to get internet. It is truly a great device. Tons of settings, very versatile, doesn’t need to be restarted (previously owned D-Link and TP-Link had bugs that require me to restart them from time to time).

If I ever get a new network device, it will be FritzBox. Hope they wont entshittify by that time.

He is the hard hitter as of right now, but donk is not immortal. He dies quite often.

Edit: Also on chinese servers or something? They couldn’t play with 20 ping within each other.

I hooked up my wife on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. We do not own any Nintendo consoles and not planning to.

1500-2000 PC would be twice as powerful as PS5.

If you pay 1000, you get:

• 1440p@60 at max settings gaming machine
• you can play games from all systems (if they are ported to PC)
• if games are not ported, you got emulation!
• ginormous backwards compatibility log
• ability to do whatever you want with it (watch movies, work, browse internet, code, edit photos, whatever you can think of)
• You also do not have to pay subscription fee to be able to play online
• Games generally are cheap and can be acquired in bulk
• 4 times a year Steam sales and free games offered by competitors
• Can be used with pretty much any gamepad out there + tons of insanely good 3rd party options.
• If you do not like Windows, Linux can run almost any game.

Btw, 1000 is for a Steam Machine. You can get used parts that are better for even less. And you got a huge bump up if you already have some hardware beforehand.