It’s even worse if you look further down on the other unofficial figures list at Marvel’s Avengers. It nearly costed as much as Red Dead Redemption 2 (also unofficial numbers). My assumption is, that the license is in these costs included and why it balooned it.

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But there is a big difference to all those games: Star Citizen (and therefore Squadron 42) is backed and payed by customers already.

I like Romhacks (in other words modding of old games) that bring Halloween themed specials to known games. I haven’t looked into it this season yet, but here is an example The Quest for the Candies (Super Mario World).

It’s a Lose-Lose situation. Reddit has a fetish for that…

Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data.

On the one hand I really hope this happens. On the other hand, it would be devastating to the communities. But this shows how Reddit has the last say and can hold the content hostage on their platform. People need to stop using Reddit and switch to open and free alternatives, that is not controlled by a single entity / company. The problem is, there is lot of good legacy content and solutions that would be not available for most people searching the web.

But for the search engines who do not respect robot files, would still be able to index. Right? Ironically an AI could also write summaries…

Google: Please let us use data without the consent of the authors and the license.

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• package it once, instead many times by many different maintainers
• solves the dependency hell
• makes it easier to run multiple versions of same program (or driver) or install a program without it’s complete desktop environment
• sandboxed, better control of permissions (at least with Flatpak) and makes easier to backup the whole program version and state
• same package manager across distributions (at least with Flatpak)
• useful on LTS distributions which does not get new packages or programs or even beta software, other than security fixes (think of Debian)
• useful for write only distributions such as SteamOS
• does not need sudo to install new programs (at least with Flatpak and AppImages)

For simple applications this is probably not that wild. But the more complex programs we talk about, the more helpful are these formats. Programs like OBS or Firefox in example is a lot of trouble to compile quickly. And imagine more of these programs. Package maintainer of your distro could use the time in a better way. Those who want to package it themselves (probably Arch) could still do, but most who want to provide the newest Firefox could just use Flatpak, coming directly from the developer day 0.

One also does not need to wait until its packaged by your distro maintainer and it comes directly from the developer instead (maybe). The original developers often do not support all distros and would like to have a known state and version of the program that they can rely on, like a Flatpak.

That being said, I don’t use Flatpak. But I used it in the past and it was helpful in some cases. Even on an Arch based distribution. Currently I use an AppImage for a program that is not in the official Arch repos. The AUR has it, but the -bin is outdated and the -git version building from source takes too long and power. Even on my new modern machine it would take at least an hour for every new version. Or I just download the Applmage once (88 MB) and use the self updating system of it (which downloads newest version automatically and renames it to current executable filename). I’m talking about RPCS3 emulator.

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From what I have read it’s only the initial phase when running the Snap for the first time. The package is setting up the environment and does some things only once. And the first iteration of the Snap concept was very slow, which is improved a lot. Didn’t use Ubuntu in years, so cannot test it myself at the moment.

It’s called Twitter!

But only the first time you open it, right?

Makes sense. I hope Nintendo uses these as game cartridges in the future. :D

A platform driven by customers, I would say this has direct impact for Amazon too, if it impacts the customer.

Fake reviews with false information or recommendation could lead to a lot of wasted money and disappointed people. Even refunding in mass. And probably avoiding to buy from Amazon. Well it’s a bit dramatic, but I don’t see a positive effect for Amazon with many fake reviews in place. I’m sure Amazon want them removed, but it is hard to do this automatically for millions of products and reviews. It’s hard to find out automatically which one is real and which one is false. They don’t want delete legit reviews either.

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I have some questions: How fast are read and write operations and random access? What are the expected prices, once it hit mass production for the average consumer? And how long is expected to take until this happens?