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I know this is no consolation, but passions often have no recognition or monetary reward.

Personally I will keep doing things I love. For instance, I didn't stop studying and playing chess when it was obvious that my career would be in engineering and I would never be a pro, or when computers became clearly much stronger than humans, which happened while I was already playing chess somewhat seriously.

I intend to keep rawdogging my stuff, especially the stuff I do for myself. It's more of a personal drama when it simply rug-pulls somebody's livelihood all of a sudden. This is not a new phenomenon, but it's happening at a remarkable rate right now. I wonder if this time around there will be enough people that they won't be dismissed as losers against progress.

like with any SaaS, but what you're charging is not remotely amortisation plus a profit margin - that barely enters the equation, hence why it's a bit of a stretch to call it renting

for the device, the analogy works better, like with coin op arcade machines back in the day

in this case, you're clearly not allocating a device for your sole usage for a given period of time; it's a gaming SAAS, which isn't really renting

i find the entire concept alien and i have zero interest in becoming a customer in such models, so i'm not into it and i might be misinterpreting things, but aren't those games you never "bought" in the first place?

i mean, it sounds like it's a subscription plan and some extra session passes added on, not like you actually bought a game at any point, correct me if i'm wrong

always has been

when the software is supposedly maintained, too

i can bet on it if i can host it in my computer

Dumping is shady af.

i guess they're in relatively separate spaces? that's how it's like in my local area in the UK

I'm finding that libraries in the UK outside of big cities are resembling those in the article, just nowhere near as popular, and with a more pedestrian book selection

Xcancel helps people migrate away from X, or simply stay outside of it. The fact that X is trying to shut them down, plus the fact that they silo replies and interactions in the first place, should be a good hint that X themselves don't regard that degree of openness to work in their favour.

It's pretty much the standard to either soft-block or hard- block access into silos. Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok, etc ... all do it. Of course it's an openly anti-consumer practice, but it's one they get away with when they're big enough to flip the service burden to the client.

They have always been spivs. Their entire business model is dishonest and predatory.

yea but that's clear from the context

we use "going to Europe" and "going to the continent" fully aware that the UK is in Europe

changed my life

which is obviously getting progressively reduced for the things that matter and more things moved to different forms of majority, and for good reasons too because the EU is already dysfunctional enough as is

their voting power would be essentially zero and the policy opt-ins very significant

no doubt in my mind I'd vote no in their place