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Yes, any deal would involve someone making a profit but that isn't important. The question "follow the money" implies is, was this decision made because it was the best decision for the circumstances or was it made because someone is getting a kickback? I don't know the answer and I'm not implying anything but I feel saying "any deals involves someone making money" is being obtuse to a certain extent.

Explain this comment to me. It seems reasonable to come to the conclusion that someone is profiting on the side from this deal. Especially given the current postmaster general. Is there some other trail of thought you think is being neglected from jumping to this conclusion?

First link is a 404 and second link is from 2017 and doesn't have the information I want which is how much money they are making from storefronts.

Is Krita transparent about their finances? Because I would love to know how much money Krita makes on this front. My guess is not much at all.

> I can't understand why people tolerate spoken instruction

Not only do people tolerate it, some people prefer it! I'm going out on a limb here as I have no data to back this up but I'm willing to bet that the average person has not done any dense reading since they finished their schooling. With that context, it's probably not hard to imagine why most people prefer video instruction over blog post and what not.

I feel like you are in the minority. Most people prefer narrated games over having to read dialogue.

I agree you about LTT to a certain point but I think you are dragging them too much. LTT has done some very good tech journalism in the past and brought some very important stories to light. While I do not prefer them for my hardware information for reasons you stated, I would not call them the polar opposite of quality.

If I wanted to get into linux phone development, what's a good entry point into this?

Regarding skills not being transferable. This is only somewhat true and the author is doing some goal post shifting here. What he said really only applies to game engines, not game frameworks and certainly not game programming in general. If you want to learn game programming and not a game engine, I recommend using something like Pygame or LOVE2D which are less prescriptive game frameworks as opposed to engines.

However, even with game engines, I have spoken with AAA developers who have worked with both Unity and Unreal and they all say the same thing. Game engines are a lot like programming languages in the sense that once you learn truly learn how one works, picking up a new one isn't that difficult.

Sure it's possible.

What does this have to do with people in tech communities being rude?

> It's second only to my all time favorite of "I left a company, and here's a blog post about why you should care" post.

As a counterpoint, one of my genuinely favorite post is Michael Lynchs "Why I left Google" post and his yearly solo developer updates. A lot of people simply blog as a way to organize their thoughts, not because they believe people care and need to hear what they have to say.

Personally I would say most people here and in tech communities in general are insufferably rude but YMMV.

> Word. Excel.

Microsoft absolutely has sales people for the B2B side of Microsoft Office constantly shilling Office 365. This absolutely doesn't sell itself.