Because they’re still making billions. They’re just not making as many billions as they’d like, and as many as the investors are demanding.
That’s what’s driving the stock price drops more than anything else, but they’re not a broke business with no resources, no sales, and no hope heading into bankruptcy.
They’re just not feeding the vultures, and the vultures are going to force a sale to someone worse.
Unpopular opinion: I think people are tired of disjointed big stories.
I mean, I know I am. Give me a story about a couple of people doing something that’s a good story, not a giant montage of short scenes about the fate of the galaxy.
I don’t CARE about the galaxy, I want a good personal story that has stakes that make sense on a personal level, and isn’t just some weird superhero story but happens to be wearing a Star Wars skin suit.
Also maybe don’t make a trilogy that’s the same damn story beats as the previous trilogy, but worse in every way you care to mention.
And, maybe, that’s not just me: Rogue One is such a movie and it’s been well received. Andor is a show at the same kind of scale, and hey, it’s also been accepted as good.
Dry itchy skin? Red rash? It could be SimpleX. Ask your doctor today.
watching players metrics and not seeing many people quit or cancel over this
This feels like a case where the metrics are going to outright lie about the real impact.
Maybe not very MANY people quit, but those that leave are going to have been the ride-or-die, dedicated fans that have been playing for, in some cases, decades now.
They’re the only members of the player base that are in guilds that actually have anything in the bank worth caring about, because a new expansion will have effectively devalued the entirety of the mundane gear and potions and food stacks MOST guilds use their banks for.
I may just have a skewed view here, but this is an issue that impacts the dedicated, vocal, and visible section of players far more than your random guy who shows up to run a LFR once a week so uh maybe finding time for a human to actually look at and do something useful would be a good investment.
But then, I’m also not an MBA so what do I know.
Hadn’t seen that project but that kind of feels like the way to go. I don’t care about having parts to keep something working when the laptop was $50 in the first place. If it breaks, into the trash it goes, and I’ll just buy another one.
Those are cool, and they’ve definitely nailed the aesthetic. Also looks like they’re working on a new revision which looks like a reasonable upgrade.
Not sure it’s the right choice for what I’m after (it’s kinda expensive and very performance limited for the cost), but uh, I’m going to keep an eye out because that’s a cool piece of kit.
“Debian is too far behind! Packages are too old!”
The best rule of thumb I’ve ever heard regarding Debian Stable is that if the kernel in stable’s default repo fully supports ALL your hardware, and the software in stable’s default repos fully support your workflows, it’s fine.
If those are NOT true, then you probably don’t want to use Stable, because you’ll either end up fighting it via manually compiled and installed software, or you’ll venture into so many 3rd party repos for updated packages that updating it later becomes problematic and prone to making the whole system catch fire and burn down.
You know, the older I get the more I respect the people who come out and say ‘I’m not going to learn that, and I don’t want to.’
It’s a LOT better than dealing with someone who half-asses and kinda wishy-washes around and says they’ll maybe do something but then doesn’t and well, wasn’t ever going to.
If you’re not interested and won’t, say so up front so you don’t waste your or my time trying to get you to do something.
Have some stuff on a VPS, some stuff hosted as static pages at Cloudflare, some stuff hosted at home too.
Depends on if 100% uptime is required, if they’re just serving static content, or if they’re in some way related to another service I’m running (I have a couple of BBSes, and the web pages that host the clients and VMs that host the clients run locally).
Though, at this point, anything I’m NOT hosting at home is kinda a “legacy” deployment, and probably will be brought in-house at some point in the future or converted to static-only and put on Cloudflare if there’s some reason I can’t/don’t want to host it at home.
Biebian is VASTLY superior to Hannah Montana Linux. You should consider switching.
Maybe you’d be happier playing Diablo’s parents, a proper rogue-like?
Perma-death provides quite the incentive and intensity you seem to want.
It also doesn’t lend itself quite so much to “builds” since you’re relying mostly on whatever you find, which is randomized, so you can’t “solve the game”.
And PeerTube is pathetic. Peertube on the otherhand is “EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!”
You’re not wrong, but the biggest flaw Peertube has is that the search on an instance is utterly worthless and defective.
They do have a good search engine for finding content you might want to watch, but they don’t use those results in the instance-level search which befuddles and confuses the shit out of me, because you won’t find shit you actually want to watch.
https://sepiasearch.org/ is where you probably want to start, but yeah, there’s a LOT of Linux shit, but you can at least find other things when you use a non-broken search option.
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I used to print on glass, until I nearly cut a finger off.
Make sure you’re using glass that can either handle the thermal cycling (that is not anything you can find at a Home Depot), or is tempered so it won’t have giant sharp shards when it does finally break due to the heating -> cooling -> heating -> cooling cycles of 3d printing.
Mine did that in my hands, and the shards it broke into were sharp enough to cut down to the bone on two of my fingers, requiring a hospital trip.
…I use textured PEI now, which probably won’t try to remove any digits.
normalized microtransactions
I’d say it’s maybe a little more honest to say they normalized the gambling exploitation in gaming with the TF2 lootboxes.
You didn’t buy cosmetics, you bought a key to open a box that might get you the cosmetic you wanted.
You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking.
Which, at any of my last few corporate jobs, would be grounds for termination, if not immediately throwing you out of the building and telling you if you come back we’re calling the cops.
You really don’t bypass controls in a corporate environment like this if you like working there.
(And yes, not EVERY job will react that way, but any that’s got any compliance requirements absolutely will.)
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Yeah, and at that point your network should be enforcing client isolation too, which is also a mitigation for this specific issue in large, shared networks like a college campus, or office, or public Wi-Fi at wherever.
It’s that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns is only alive because all the things that would kill him are cancelling each other out, but in PHP form.
I tend to use Squarespace because uh, they have a marketing budget and everyone tends to already know (or at least one of the people in the meeting anyways) who they are, which makes things an easier sell.
I don’t particularly think they’re the best or whatever, but they at least do what they say at a price that’s reasonable enough and I’ve yet to be burned by suggesting them, sooooo…
They’re mostly in France, yeah?
It turns out that most European countries (and especially France) have actual worker protections, and you just can’t point and yell ‘you’re fired!’ at someone and do mass layoffs without, you know, doing them legally.