Because the other comment wouldve completely confused me from 10 years ago let me try also phrasing it differently:
Music is fundamentally based on repetition, on top of that there are common tropes. So when a note that you (consciously or subconsciously) expect isn't being played, that has an effect. Jazz is an example of a genre that does that a lot.
Visual snow is when you see it with eyes open afaik. But yea, still not terribly abnormal on its own. Visual snow syndrome is a thing though, but it's more than just seeing an abnormal amount of visual snow (the normal amount seems to be when looking at unicolored surfaces and in dim light).
Saying it's even worse does imo, since there's no shared statistic as the original 25% was about illegal immigrants rather than criminal records.
Physical retailers have been taking 30% before steam was even a thing. And no, the physical storage does not mean they should be paid more, because steam provides hosting capabilities that also cost money. Console stores from limited research seem to also take 30%.
Epic takes less because they operate the store at a loss in a desperate attempt to gain market share. If ms takes less, it's for the same reason.
Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that's how retailers work, it's not an unusual cut for an online store.
I fail to see how steam is anti-consumer, or how it ever actively tried to monopolize anything.
Selling broken, unfinishedband shovelware games was just them giving in to the demand to let everything on the store, after people (rightfully imo) hated greenlight.
Fuck the gambling though
I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it's an ongoing effort.
If my understanding of the legislative EU process is somewhat correct, this effectively leaves it up to the countries to decide (as EU laws just mean that countries have to pass a law enacting it).
It's not rare to phrase laws this way in germany at least. It's not necessarily bad, as it allows court interpretation to change alongside societal values. In this case it would likely lead to only some countries actually passing mass surveillance laws (it's pretty unambiguously unconstitutional in a bunch, which makes it clear that mass surveillance is not "reasonable". Not that that always stops legislators, but it would at least die before the highest court eventually).
So we still need to fight it, because it's the first line of defense. Really what we need to push for would likely be explicitly disallowing blanket scanning of communication on the EU level, or proposals like this will happen again and again.
Powershell is nice for scripting things close to the (windows) OS. But (granted I'm not exactly some PS wizard, I've just used it a few times for minor things at work) I agree it often feels unnecessarily verbose and cumbersome. For example the fact that you need to define a whole function to alias even just a single command with parameters. And just overall I find it very hard to read (though maybe that's on the guy that did the powershell stuff before me, I don't have great sample size here).
But I'll take what I can get.
Even if we set our global net emissions to 0 right now it's not gonna get colder again in our lives or the lives of the next 100 generations. The carbon was in the ground, we burnt it, now it's in the atmosphere as co2. To get it back down, we need negative net emissions aka co2 recapture.
And needless to say, getting our global net emissions anywhere close to 0 isn't even really in reach for the next 50 years, so if we can do recapture alongside reducing emissions that would probably be great. Particularly in the wealthy western nations that might reach at least nominal net 0 at some point in this century.
No, because the game does not support linux, so I never paid for it to work on linux. The fact that most games do anyway, usually out of the box and without any issues, is largely thanks to valve.
Tbh I don't really get why though. Clearly he's good at getting people to listen, but... why?
Hitler was similar (except I'd say better looking) but listening to his speeches I at least get how he had crowds cheering. Trump could say things I agree with and I'd still not want to listen to him.
It's the insane price tag of it (given that it's a car) combined with the fact that beyond the usual evil ceo shit he's politically active and manipulating public discourse in favor of fascism.