I expect the established banking/credit card industry is not likely to let Valve into their systems just to circumvent their restrictions. Vabve would need to be able to validate Visa/Mastercard/Discover etc cards issued by any any bank and be able to credit/debit them.

I will never cease to be amazed at how ungodly much cash startups often have.

Since the Righteous Gemstones ended there is nothing I watch on there anyway.

I use Bandcamp when I want to buy and YouTube with ad blocker for streaming.

Not only that, I wouldn’t even use one if they paid me. How did they convince people to pay to be spied on and advertised to?

Isn’t/wasn’t he a programmer? He can’t possibly believe what he is saying.

I would love a modern phone with a slide out keyboard like the old Droids. Never got used to typing on screen, no feel to it.

So is this just something Google does or are they under some sort of contract or law?

Anyone who does this either doesn’t understand how generative AI works or does understand and is just using it as an excuse to deregulate.

I would try a couple other games to see how they perform. Plenty of free 3D games to try. You might have some basic misconfiguration.

Wonder if this will slow down the new data center builds?

X4 is a mile deep and an inch wide, Elite Dangerous is a mile wide and and an inch deep.

X4 lets you do much more; own, fly and command dozens or hundreds of ships but the play area is much smaller.

X4 has an empire management layer that you can choose to use, it also has lots of mods and you can save and load whenever you want.

It’s amazing to me that cloud computing is so profitable that they can run inefficient gas generators to power it.

People don’t think about the internet being fossil fuel powered.