Oh god, it’s so bad. It’s like .h files, but worse.

When compared to other people living in vans? Absolutely.

Where is the line though

The line is “do you need to work ever to maintain at least the current living standard”. That’s the division between working class and wealthy class.

If I was to start van living (hard as I can’t drive) and rented out my house I wouldn’t have to work another day in my life

Not maintaining at least current living standard.

Preflight it? If you ask external API every 6 hours about known range of host IDs with a date, then 1h before you need that information call the external API and check if it works or returns garbage? That way you can get some extra time to maybe react earlier to an incident? It honestly depends on the nature of your job and the qualities of your traffic, but generally speaking the problem you have is unfixable and the best you can hope for is early detection (if that matters for you).

If however you’re a pass-through API to the external one, eg. a different service calls your API with a hostID and the hostIDs are not a known finite pool, then you can forget about preflighting.

So to sum it up:

• API breaks responses only for new data
• API does not provide any metadata, like versioning
• API doesn’t host it’s spec
• the problem isn’t that the API mutates, but that it starts returning garbage for new data, but not historical.

You’re out of luck. You can’t prevent it. You can’t foresee it, unless you know beforehand what you’ll call the API with and you can pre-flight it and detect it earlier.

Exclusives are a bastard child of oligopoly, where the distribution platform has more power than the publisher.

Before Steam physical games were NEVER sold only in ToysR, they were sold in all shops.

More competition does not always mean things are better for the consumer [cut], e.g. streaming services

I don’t believe this oligopoly is competing with each other?

(I’m not arguing with the rest of your post because capitalism bad :) )

I simply do not understand the sentiment that not being a total bastard is something celebrated and not expected or required.

And while many like our Steam benevolent (almost) monopoly, I do wonder how would the market look like if we had 20 competing companies that cannot gain more than 5% of the market share. Can you imagine the competition between them and how would that benefit us, the consumer?

Oh boy. Yepowertrippingbastards are a thing on lemmy.

I have literally never seen one post like that on lemmy.

OK yeah but every major “news” channel is like this

That’s literally “whataboutism”.

Two words: cargo cult.

Relevant Betty White skit:

https://youtu.be/fbI1eJ_zAB8

Me:

30% markup

Them:

everyone only talks about the 30 since thats all they hear about. Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point

You:

He didn’t. He said people who parrot it are [Epic Games apologist]

Confused noises.

Semperverus said anyone who says that 30% is too much is an Epic Game apologists, whatever that is.

Semperverus is insinuating anyone who says that 30% is amount taken by Steam is wrong, and saying that is parroting, and should be instead thought as “Poor Steam is forced to take 30% because this is industry standard”, but Valve, and I quote here, “goes out of its way to make exceptions to this rule”.

And no; realistically, if you lose Visa and Mastercard, you can close shop. Obviously it’s for profit, because a 99% reduction in turnover means all employees out of work.

Doesn’t change the fact that bending over backwards for Visa and Mastercard and banning some content because of their whims is enshittification. The service is worse than it was before, in the name of profit.

Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point.

Why are you trying to offend me? I didn’t call you names, why are you doing that?

but ultimately it wasn’t for profits so much as it was survival.

Visa and Mastercard aren’t the only available payment options in Steam. Yielding to them was for profit.

Survival? Steam has enough profit to create it’s own payment processor and make it popular.

Steam

30% markup. Predatory currency conversion policies. Recent scandals with Steam censoring games on behest of Australian Right nuts groups.

“Supremacist” might be a better word

Cucumbers. You can pickle it, eat it raw, semi-pickle it (google Polish 2 day dill pickles). Or try raddishes if you want stronger flavours.

Side note:

gooey and seedy

That’s not a tomato. A proper tomato is firm and sweet and not uniform in shape or colour. Source: am eating some right now, took me forever to find seeds.

The shit we are sold as tomatoes are bulldogs of tomato family. Crossbred damaged line created to maximise profit and decrease production cost, by sacrificing quality and taste.

Nordic retirement funds famously don’t invest in shitty companies or housing property… directly. In Nordic countries.

They do own a sizeable chunk of middleman and own a lot of empty estates as well as renting agencies, e.g. in London UK, Gdansk Poland (and I forgot all other places)

derogatory language towards sexually promiscuous women

So… She called (an imaginary?) slut “slut” and had to apologize for it?