Fair enough :)

I can totally agree that games should prioritise being fun above having pretty graphics.

Yes, its real

https://slashdot.org/story/438631

We don’t know exactly what they are spending the time on.

The article says “more time to create the world of Albion” but that’s the article paraphrasing - the source video simply states “more time” - and doesn’t specify for what.

I’m sure world design is a part of it, but quests, characters, optimisations, bugfixes and all of that are surely a part too.

Personly I’m very glad that the studio are being given the time they need instead of rushing out some rubbish.

One could argue that Tado should have had more certainty about their business model before they started selling promises they couldn’t keep, but that’s business I suppose.

Presumably Tado anticipated they could capture customers on a free tier and upsell later, but it turns out that when customers have a fully functional basic tier, they generally don’t want to pay money for extras they don’t care about.

And so now, Tado are left with an online service that costs them money to run, but no ongoing revenue. So of course they will try to monetise the subscription.

Of course, part of the problem is that customers have almost been conditioned to expect cloud stuff to be free. And so that’s the price Tado tried to aim for, and now that is causing problems.

Either way though, what they are doing now represents “changing the deal” Darth Vader style - the product previously was a one time purchase and then free after, and they are now trying to make it paid after selling it as free. And that is bad.

It was to figure out if they /really did/ start charging for it, how many people would actually pay.

I hope Tado goes bust because they don’t deserve to survive, treating customers like that.

If it’s not broke…

The slop is an unfortunate consequence of the streaming model.

Because there is so much content on streaming and it’s so readily accessible, watching a movie isn’t an “event” anymore in the way it was when DVD or VHS was the only option. And when you pair this with second-screen devices (phones) then it all adds up to people treating movies as background entertainment while they scroll their phone or do something else.

And because of that, the way shows and movies are produced has changed, too. The reason everything seems like homogenous cookie-cutter crap is because it is. In fact Netflix have specifically been asking producers to dumb content down so viewers can still understand it even when they are only paying half attention.

Of course, there are still talented people out there making great movies and shows, but they are increasingly drowned in a sea of copy-paste mediocrity.

And I do feel sorry for all those perhaps equally talented but less senior writers, directors, editors and artists who might never get to produce a movie they are truly proud of, because they’ve been captured by the streaming content factory that demands of them only a constant treadmill of dumbed-down slop, cheap and quick and instantly forgettable - and that people will only ever half-watch.

A pirate without adblock installed? Truly the worst pirate.

I can understand OP’s confusion, though.

For move and copy it’s pretty certain which is the ‘from’ and which is the ‘to’ - the order intuitively makes sense.

For symlinks it’s more ambiguous based on your personal mental model.

For example, if you think about symlinks from the perspective of the original file before a link is created, then the original file represents the ‘from’ and the link is the ‘to’ (CORRECT)

But if you are thinking from the perspective of using a link after it’s created, then you can easily imagine the symlink as the ‘from’ - because that’s where you start when you follow it, and the target file/dir as the ‘to’ - because that’s where you arrive after following it. (INCORRECT)

So I totally get the ambiguity.

It’s quite easy to understand, even though it’s bullshit.

When the sales department has a good month and makes loads of sales, the business too has a good month. The activity of those individuals directly correlates to revenue on a month by month basis, so management are naturally going to be incentivised to give the sales team perks and bonuses as motivation.

In a given month the IT/dev department doesn’t “generate” any money at all, they only cost. We know they generate value in other ways of course, because the product the sales team sell is surely built and operated by the dev team, but because the relationship is indirect management don’t care to reward you.

Reward sales with nice perks -> Revenue goes up

Reward devs with nice perks -> Revenue doesn’t change

So of course management doesn’t see the benefit in giving more money to tech, because it doesn’t seem like you get anything back.

Of course, the reality is that investment in tech will make the product and the business better and more profitable, but it takes months or years to see the impact of changes, and management has a short attention span.

I wish the best for you, and hope you find yourself a better boss soon.

Can you imagine the absolute misery of working for someone like this.

A person who thinks developers are all useless, and has total contempt for any skills that aren’t “business” stuff.

A person who thinks tech is easy and you can “just” do this and “just” do that and everything will be done, always telling you “this is so easy I could do it myself” while any contribution they make only makes things worse, and if there’s any kind of hold-up it’s because you’re either “lazy” or “incompetent”

No thanks.

I use Pop for gaming and it just works.

As a plus, I also love the somewhat mac-ish UX design, although that won’t be to everyone’s taste.

It’s not that the cops don’t know how to search a video, they simply don’t want to, because theft of property from you, a working-class nobody, is nothing to them.

It doesn’t need it. That’s exactly the point.

Even though air frying doesn’t need Internet, the manufacturer is restricting that feature as a way to force you to set up the WiFi, so they can then slurp up all your data.

They’re literally holding the feature hostage, as motivation.

Vita was technically impressive, far more capable than the DS. I’ve got an OLED Vita and I’m amazed how nice it still looks.

But the Vita inevietably lost to Nintendo because it struggled with popularity, and therefore struggled with number of games made for it. It’s a catch 22.

If Sony can make a portable that plays all your PS5 library (without needing to buy any of it again) then they might actually be on a winner.

Because then your browser would itself have to be a torrent client.

The way torrents download is fundamentally different from how a standard http download works, which is why they have a specialist implementation. Browsers dont want to bother bringing a whole load of new code and associated bugs into the browser to do a job which isn’t really connected with the browser’s main responsibility, which is browsing the web.

Just because torrents come from the web shouldn’t make it the browser’s responsibility to deal with them.

If a tree falls in the woods…

So, Calyx or Graphene to ensure this AI garbage can be disabled, I suppose.

I couldn’t give two hoots about this, but it’s probably a good thing for ‘normal’ people.

My dad for example can never find a file once it’s disappeared from the notifications, so he always just goes back and downloads the file again whenever he needs it, duplicating it over and over because he has no idea “where it went”