I’d never want one with a phone app. It had better be usable without one
My e-bike has a phone app, and it’s great. Of course it works without the app, but it’s super useful to be able to plan a ride from the comfort of my couch and send it to my bike instead of entering it on the bike’s screen. Especially if it’s a route with multiple waypoints.
It is a sad situation, but those of use who still know how to actually code are going to make bank.
UPNP is a security nightmare, better to never enable it at all or if you must only for those networks where you need it.
Every piece of software is the same.
I don’t know about that. Physical discs always felt cheaper to me than digital games. People complain about digital games being ‘rented’ but for me a game on disc feels more like a rental (insert disc to prove you haven’t returned it yet), compared to digital which is permanently tied to your account and always available when you want it.
Margins on digital games are much higher, even if those 10% don’t all switch to digital they will probably still make more of a profit.
The first version of DDC is from 1994
Pretty sure old VGA shit doesn’t transfer metadata about themselves.
Pretty sure it did. DDC has been a thing since forever. It certainly existed on VGA.
People in different regions are able to pay different amounts for a video game. You don’t want to sell a game for €40 to someone willing to pay €80, you also don’t want to miss out on the €40 from someone who’s only willing to pay that amount.
This is also why there are artificial tiers, like an ‘ultimate edition’ and shit like that.
Same goes for things like internet speeds. A 1gbit connection is actually slightly cheaper to sell than a 100/100 connection, but they offer different price tiers to extract the maximum amount someone is willing to pay.
I know I’m in what feels like a growing minority, but I will always pick up a physical copy if given a chance.
I bought a few physical games for my PS4 back in the day and I still regret it. I can still play all the digital games I bought back then but lost all physical games. No idea where they are. Digital games are linked to my account and impossible to misplace.
This is a solved problem.
A company going out of business and customers losing access to their IP is a very common concern for software businesses. The common way to deal with this is using an escrow service.
A copy of all the IP (e.g. source code) relevant to a license is stored at the escrow service (and regularly updated if necessary). If the supplier goes bankrupt, the escrow service is authorized to release the IP placed under escrow to the customers.
You could do something similar for Steam. Pay a 3rd party to keep a copy of all content that is authorized to release it if the original company goes out of business.
Why would you play a game a second time when you could he playing a new game instead?
I assume that by the time they are delisted you’ve already finished them? So why does it matter?
And here I was thinking the point was to play games. Silly me.
Job protections and guarantees for workers displaced by automation
Jobs are a necessary evil, not a goal in itself. The goal should be to eliminate all jobs.
Until that time we should figure out a better way to share the burden of the work that nerds to be done as well as better way to distribute resources. Trying to preserve jobs is not the way.
That’s why all my ‘smart’ appliances are in a separate VLAN with strict firewall rules limiting access to the bare minimum.
Between solar panels and a home battery my electricity bill is negative during summer months. As in I produce more than I need so I’m selling back to the grid.
During the winter when I don’t get enough from solar with my battery and dynamic pricing I can buy electricity when prices are low so I don’t pay high prices during peak hours.
Several reasons