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- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 3 days 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 4 days ago:
What is that even supposed to mean?
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 days 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 1 week ago:
I checked mine, which is a fairly basic model, and it’s actually 400V.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 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 5 months ago:
I don’t think you read the article, or you just like being tracked.
- Comment on The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive 5 months ago:
It’s not like physical media makes any difference anyway these days.
Actual disk often gets just a glorified installer, and even if it includes the entire game you’re likely to have to activate it online anyway.
The “own your games” ship has sailed long ago, unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 5 months ago:
One of the reasons being Nvidia forcing unethical vendor lock in through their licensing.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 5 months ago:
I don’t know why people are saying this is a well written article - the author seems to be bewildered that a game that looks good is bad.
It’s really not that complicated. At the end of the day it’s a game and gameplay is the single most important feature.
Just look at Breath of the Wild: it doesn’t look particularly amazing, and it runs like shit on the only hardware it’s available on.
But it’s the great gameplay that keeps people coming back for more. - Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025 6 months ago:
Right, that’s why I’m not convinced this will ever actually release.
Abandoning all previous work, and the fact that new devs don’t exactly have experience with this genre…
I’m still gonna give it a try, but I’m not hopeful. - Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025 6 months ago:
I’m surprised it’s not cancelled yet.
I think at this point its development is even more troubled than the original, which is kinda impressive in its own way.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 6 months ago:
I don’t think so. Maybe they’ll have something new for the next Nintendo Switch?
In fact, the Shield is using the same chip as the Switch (same for the newer revisions).
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 6 months ago:
It’s supposed to use S905X3 with ARM Cortex-A55.
There’s already plenty of devices on the market with this chip, and it’s fine, but in real world as a user you won’t really see any improvement over something like a nearly 10 year old Nvidia Shield that’s still using a more powerful chipset.
Which is sad for a new device…
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 6 months ago:
They’re supposedly using pretty much the same chipset. So the most important part is still underpowered, these Android boxes generally work fine even with 2-3GBs of RAM.
- Comment on “Orb: On the Movements of the Earth” Teaser Visual 7 months ago:
Just a bunch of stuff about geological and astronomical properties of the mudball known as Earth.
- Comment on “Orb: On the Movements of the Earth” Teaser Visual 7 months ago:
The manga is set in medieval Poland, so yep.
- Comment on Apple Hits a Major Roadblock as EU Targets App Store 8 months ago:
You know, this explanation isn’t wrong, but having a printer manufacturer in your analogy show up as a victim just feels wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
No, it really doesn’t.
In competitors’ apps you can still integrate it with 3rd party services.
Teams keeps failing at the most basic features of a chat/calling app.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Such as?
Last I checked there’s still no alternative that doesn’t require some sacrifices.
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 10 months ago:
You should search for something like “data protection office” in Czech language, they likely have tips on how to lodge a complaint.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 11 months ago:
I don’t use Kagi, but pretty sure they offer the plan you want.