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Did you mean exponentially? Logarithmic increase doesn't sound too bad.

This is quite stupid, but I really wish those who are quick to jump on a ridiculous piece of legislation as supposed proof of Europe's downfall would be as critical discussing consequences of underregulation.

>Joswiak, who holds Schiller’s old title of SVP of worldwide marketing, concedes that touch was overdue, at least for users with sophisticated needs. Its pro customers—engineers, scientists, software developers, and media creators—were impatient with Apple for its failure to let them interact directly with the screen.

I haven't ever seen a developer, engineer or scientist voice that need. Not sure about media creators since there aren't many in my bubble, but it's kind of a weird claim. Why would people interacting mostly with text need touch? Half of them barely even use the mouse/touchpad.

Regarding the social media part, hugely recommend revanced, for those in android.

My Instagram app (besides showing no ads) shows just the stories and feeds of people I follow, chronologically. Just a couple days this way will make you realize how little content there is, my friend's Korea trip has been the top one for like a couple weeks already.

Then you can get the DMs to avoid FOMO and realize how antisocial the whole thing is.

No idea if it works for x, I left that long ago and everytime I've checked out of curiosity I've been shocked at the absolute cesspit it is.

Well the good news is that we keep moving closer to a new postwar period :)

Yeah I understood how it actually works, I'm just saying it's a potential huge footgun for someone writing a script coming from unix derivates.

At least if I had to write one, I saw cd is available and seemingly working as expected, and wrote a cd to an arbitrary target I would not expect it to behave that way at all - my expectation would be that either the next command always runs in the cd'd path, or at least that cd errors on a path in a different drive.

So you can be at A, run a successful absolute path cd, then do something bad like a bulk remove in the current directory, and you nuke A?

What a footgun.

I'm the opposite, for big purchases. I consider the first week or so basically the demo and I'm conscious of the fact that I'm in "returning range".

Hard to do otherwise when everything from reviewers to reddit comments are astroturfed.

>for uninnovative gameplay, as you just shoot balls and the game mostly plays itself for you

I'd disagree. The shooting itself is as old as space invaders, but there is a neat mechanic there worth exploring regarding the combinations of powerups and 'character powers' IMO. You have to choose what to fuse/powerup to keep the damage scaling well enough (though the amount of combinations isn't large enough to last more than a couple weekends, I'll give you that).

People are not choosing AI due to money here. It's not the 80EUR, AAA games being copied, it's indies that are frequently in the same price range as the original.

What's actually happening is people buying knockoffs not knowing they're knockoffs, or no one buying those but the original being buried in the volume anyway.

As for the 'think about the non privileged', AI is a pretty poor answer for them. Once we're at a point where the person isn't able to pay for genuine stuff, they might as well go for piracy and emulators rather than a mindless knockoff. A world where the privileged are given intellectually stimulating material and the rest are fed empty slop is the worst possible scenario.

I don't think it's a problem of copying, as much as the fact that the signals we use to identify quality are no longer working.

Clones always existed, kids chose pokemon rather than a dollar store dragomons because pokemon became a household name by the time bootlegs appeared, legitimate shops only sold pokemon and the cartridge itself showed a quality difference.

Nowadays the clone can reach people before the original, the store shows everything equally, and the sprites, videos and description can be good enough to fool people. Steam works as a platform for the purchase itself but not as a discovery mechanism, because there's no "seal of quality" you can consider (other than skipping indies entirely).

No one can review at the scale needed, and it's entirely possible for a great game to have devs that are awful at marketing and get buried. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I think some kind of threshold is necessary for the shops, or at least for an optional filter.

>Given I am not a story based gamer, but a gameplay focused one, I just see no true innovation anymore.

Denshattack!, ballxpit, blue prince, balatro, outer wilds, pipistrello... There's plenty of quality there too!

It's true that the average quality we're exposed to is lower, because there's so many random pet projects and big players take fewer risks. Relying on word of mouth or gaming reviewers you trust is important nowadays. But I'm convinced it's a matter of discovery rather than existence.

>and I worry AI is not going to encourage any growth in that small elite

I wouldn't dismiss the help of lower friction of entry. Lots of recent Linux and neovim users due to how easy it is to debug an issue or edit a config now.

The larger the regular userbase, the more chances people gradually go deeper into the system.

Spain's network liberalization is recent-ish, operators like Iryo exist since 2021.

Perhaps the synchronization between renfe and others is a weak point in the system. Decades of assuming that everything in the network is theirs, increased wear and tear, etc.

How's the market there, out of curiosity? Good enough to compensate London's housing costs?