What exactly does Apple think that they’re brining to the equation in order to deserve that 30? Is it simply that they’re hosting an app on their store, so therefore they’re entitled to a cut?

So if I write a novel, and get it published, Microsoft can say "We deserve 30% because you used our product to produce your product?

I’m so fucking tired of corporations. It’s well past guillotine-o-clock.

Haven’t brushed my teeth yet today. I’m gonna have to decline.

That was sassy? I thought it was hilarious.

I thought you had actually taken the time to look at my comment history, discovered that I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology and was making a riff on that. I thought it was great!

I stand corrected. Learn something new every day. Thanks.

edit: I don’t know why you are getting downvotes. You corrected me with a proper source. and I stood corrected. That’s the proper civilized way of doing things.

They didn’t ban weapons. They banned generals leading independent armies.

Roman military was, at that time at least, privatised. The generals were the elites and the rich who would often pay for their own armies. When Caesar for example wanted to go campaigning in Gaul, he’d pay for a lot of the cost or of his own pocket. This resulted in armies that were generally more loyal to their general than to Rome.

That could naturally be a problem, so to prevent a general from getting ideas, the law mandated that they would have to disband their armies before crossing into Italy proper (or at least leaving their army encamped outside the territory)

That point was traditionally just before the army would cross the Rubicon river, hence the phrase “crossing the Rubicon” denoting a kind of “red line” or “point of no return”.

When Caesar made the decision to March on Rome and incite a civil war, his army “crossed the Rubicon”.

“most”?

Try “all”. Everything always eventually comes down to someone, somewhere, trying to make more profit for themselves.

That’s why “Follow the money” is the surest way to solve any crime.

PC Version was hard as hell. I was shocked by how differently designed the XBox 360 version was. It was two entirely different games for the most part. I remember back then that was the first time I had seen that sort of purposeful disparity between what was supposed to be the same game on both platforms.

Yes.

After god knows how many years now of being on Linux exclusively, I tend to look at the terminal (commands in general) as a convenience more than a necessity. Meaning that in a lot of cases, knowing a command and quickly typing it to start an update (for example) is just faster and easier than pulling up the GUI every time.

I’m not saying this isn’t what needs to happen. Shut everything down, for sure.

But the reality is that Trump and his Gestapo don’t give a shit if a blue state slows to a crawl from a walkout. Their not smart enough to grasp that blue states actually contribute more.

In their brains, blue state walkouts just means blue state chaos, which they love.

Until it starts hitting GOP states, the assholes in charge won’t pay attention.

The US is already in a civil war. But only one side is actually fighting it.

I’ll give my smart-ass answer first before deliving into my serious answer.

Smart-ass: Yes…tangible literally means “possible to touch”. So yeah…digital stuff isn’t, by definition “tangible” in the way that records, cds, etc… are. You’ve never “touched” an mp3 file. You’ve never “touched” a streaming movie like you handle a DVD or a VHS tape.

Now…to my serious answer: I’ve long been working on what started as an article, became a treatise, and is now morphing into a non-fiction book about that very concept. Still a very long way to go, and with my stop-and-start creative blocks, it may never get done, but I felt it was important to write it all down while I still have a functioning brain. (I’m not getting any younger)

I’ve added to it for years every time a new thought about it comes to me, talking about what I call “Patina” (the tendency for mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses to age individually, almost developing a personality as they age) and equating it with the Japanese concept of Tsukomogami (the idea that physical things gain a soul after 100 years)

they release a subpar product, and then it fizzles.

I’m disappointed they’re jumping on AI bullshit. But I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you about the “sub par product”.

• My Asus desktop has been chugging along for a decade.
• My Asus Chromebook Flip has been going with no issues for at least four or five (though it’s long since been flipped to Linux)
• The Asus laptop I had before THAT is older than the desktop and quite happily living it’s retirement as a home-theatre PC connected to my television.

I have quite literally never had Asus hardware break down on me.

Probably around the same time that Adolph makes a comeback.

Cool. Thanks for the info. I must have been on the Flatpak for so long that I just never noticed.

Which version of the plugin did you install. There’s a whole bunch of them when you type flatpak install gimp. The resynthesizer version that works with gimp3 flatpak is number 20 in my screenshot. The one that has the 3

Not sure. I’d assume its the same as the flatpak with a bit more work involved in deconstructing the apk file, adding the plugin to the proper folder and then recompiling.

Unless this has been fixed in newer versions, it should be pointed out that ReSynthesizer relies on an older version of Python that most distrobutions don’t have anymore, so unless your using the flatpak, which has all of those dependencies still built in, it won’t work.

As a Canadian living north of the nut-hatch, I wish I had the money to excercise my dual citizenship and get out of here to Portugal, or anywhere else in the EU.

As far as I’m concerned, unionization should be government mandated for every company everywhere in every industry.

But unfortunately we live in hell.

Call me when someone puts GrapheneOS onto old unsold Blackberry Passports. I’d be all over that. I think I’m one of the few who LOVED that design swing-and-a-miss.

“Here’s a dumb phone to take with you so that you can leave your smart phone at home and not be constantly addicted to it.”

Ummmm…have they forgotten that tablet’s exist? Just get a dumb phone and use your tablet when you’re at home. You don’t need another fucking device.

My smartphone has nothing on it as far as games, social media, etc… It’s got calendar, phone, email, etc…

The fun stuff in on my tablet at home.

Why the fuck would I need another device so that I can keep TWO devices at home?

This is just idiot marketing departments trying to wriggle their greedy little dicks into a population that is waking up to their own technology addiction. Here…fight your technology addiction with…more technology.

Humanity is fucking doomed.