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Okay so its not like Gmail, but is free

So how it paid for?

Nah, but I would expect its price to be in the low 5 figures, maybe 6 figures.

And an editor that does a decent job is not google docs.

It is embarassing that MS has dominated this for more than 30 years and Google, despite its infinite wealth, hasn’t made a decent office app.

Google docs is trash.

1. It doesnt work that well.
2. If they do that then they cant trick everyone into buying new devices, thus helping recoup the untold billions dumped into LLM-based content theft.

Moreover, its not like Ukraine hasnt been pushing for localized tech stack since at least 2016-2018 ish.

It seems that every time a group says a project needs to be company driven, they always end up at the top of that company reaping in the profits.

Also many of the “private security” (mercenary) companies do union-busting.

I thought JD Vance is the director of couch fertility?

What? All Google services have always been corrupt data theft systems.

Theyre not removing it.

They are removing the local storage only and privacy settings around it.

1. It was insecure. It leaked credit card numbers and personal information like a sieve.
2. It used CCP money to bribe companies into throwing away sales. An act that while was short term good for the companies, permanently poisoned them afterwards.
3. They didnt have basic functionality like preloading games. They had to pay Gearbox to do that for them
4. They still dont have feature parity with Steam, even for the few features they have

The term open source is not free to redefine, nor has it been redefined.

It was built for the living, free internet.

For all ita dark corners, it was better than what we have now.

DE, the team behind Warframe, hired an artist known best for his rule 34 art of warframe.

Hes been churning out fantastic work, all SFW.

$8 Canadian for a dozen fully free range chicken eggs from the farmer that raises them at a farmers market.

Dropout.tv is half that price and has reams of actually enjoyable content.

Their image gen app isn’t theirs through and through. It runs on Dall-e

A fun anecdote is that when my friends and I tried the then brand new MS image gen AI built into Bing(for the purpose of a fake tinder profile, long story).

The generator kept hitting walls because it had been fed so much porn that the model averaged women to be by default nude in images. You had to specify that what clothes a woman was wearing. Not even just “clothed”, then it defaulted to lingerie or bikinis.

Not men though. Men it defaulted to being clothed.

Well, no.
Deep Rock Galactic has fully optional skin packs to make money and they’re doing great.

Warframe has been chugging along for over a decade now and they’re doing great. Beating the pants off of Destiny 2 for average player count.

The live service trick is that live service only works if the company actually cares about the product. Those two companies stand out because they legitimately care and have great communication with their communities.