sanpo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an optimistic view.

  But really, that’s just Google being Google.
  Even years before the “AI” hype their Assistant kept suddenly losing features that worked perfectly fine before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the link.

  Looks like not really closed-source, but not fully open as the previous printers were.
  And the reasoning is the usual, other companies stealing their designs. :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is that even supposed to mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t you confusing them with Bambu?

  Their slicer is based on Prusa’s exactly because Prusa isn’t doing closed source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked mine, which is a fairly basic model, and it’s actually 400V.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the alternative is around the same price

  You know that’s not true.

  There are stupidly expensive Android flagships, but there are also a lot of phones for a fraction of the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like FUD. Do you have a source for that?

  Before that, they claimed they were simply too insignificant to even be eligible for VAT.

  How is this FUD when you just said they admitted to it?

  Exemptions vary by country, but often they only apply to small businesses.
  Often there’s no right to any exemptions anyway if your company isn’t headquartered in the country (and Kagi is from USA).

  Either way you only have to pay VAT on transactions made after you go over the limit, while Kagi admitted they have to settle unpaid taxes.
  This situation can only happen if they didn’t pay the taxes they already legally owed.

  See: kagifeedback.org/…/3592-march-19th-2024-introduci…

  Kagi will have to retroactively pay for all sales tax/VAT that we did not collect in the last almost two years. We have chosen to absorb this on behalf of our customers.

  They tried to make themselves look like the good guys, while in reality they just paid back their overdue taxes they were required to collect all this time.

  Not knowing the tax rules is not an excuse.
  If they wanna do business internationally they can afford to hire an accountant.

  Information on this is extremely intransparent however, so this might be wrong.

  It’s not “extremely intransparent”, it’s just a little complicated.
  And accountants are really cheap for small businesses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also liked the part where they decided they don’t need to pay the VAT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Coup Is In Progress In America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought coups are generally illegal and involve a military action.

  This just looks like a legally elected politician doing exactly what he promised.
  It may not be good things, but none of that was unexpected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OVA) - What do you think of this one?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah, it’s not specifically the age that’s the problem.

  But you gotta admit, the original 79 wasn’t exactly the pinnacle of anime when it aired, and it really shows by now.
  I actually watched it last year for the first time, and it was fairly difficult to get through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OVA) - What do you think of this one?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I’d say.

  This OVA is nearly 40 years old now, so I don’t think there’s any way it could live up to any hype without nostalgia filter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut of game sales is now a class action, meaning many other developers could benefit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully it wasn’t a great success. Almost every time they were able to only get a time-limited exclusive.

  Tens (hundreds?) of millions well spent! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut of game sales is now a class action, meaning many other developers could benefit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we have a frivolous lawsuit against Epic Games Store as well?

  I mean, they pinky promised to take a lower cut so everyone (including customers) will benefit, but so far only the publishers got anything out of it and customers don’t even get basic features in the EGS client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually the same reason for their best games. :)

  With previous Half-Life games came Source engine and the entire Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, it’s not like their last full release was actually a single player only game.

  The headline is taken a bit out of context, the guy being interviewed seems to imply he doesn’t really consider VR “single player games”.

  And besides, he left Valve 7 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla accused of tracking users in Firefox without consent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you read the article, or you just like being tracked.