Still sad the Yuri euro did not make the cut

If it’s sticking to a magnet, it will work. Cast iron works. Induction is great, i’ll never go back to gas!

A lot of larger foss projects do open up a foundation or another legal entity. Mostly due to regulations or dealing with donations. But it’s hard to call them enterprises

Open source should be funded by the tax-payers, or all code should be forcibly open-source (something like AGPL)

Any other models feels like they would create perverse incentives

Also recurring donations feels like a better way than one-time tips

Considering that Quest is sold at a loss and tries to make money forcing you to buy games, I don’t think it’s likely

After card payments it became much safer for small family owned shops, because if someone empties the cash register, the shop is still not out of business.

Food for thought

Poor doggo. Ear cropping is a sick practice…

Small note: For the end of life. They don’t have to release all server binaries. Just the API documentation and some binaries (without the libraries that they can’t share) would be more than enough. (Basically extremely minimal additional work for the developer)

Alternatively, there should be visible disclaimer next to the price (We promise the game is playable until xxx). So the consumer would be informed that what they are “buying” is temporary.

Leaving this here for other people who maybe could get a bad impression about putting extra work for developers that could discriminate against indies.

What do you see as “general” topics? And why wouldn’t tech talks be a part of it?

If you design a product to be intentionally difficult to repair, using subpar parts, is it not planned obsolescence? I really don’t get what you are about there. Unless you require some sort of an internal clock to force brick the device to be considered planned?

Everything else is correct and I agree.

What it reeks of is Nintendo wanting to make things cheap and sell you multiple of them

That’s the “apple like” planned obsolesence part I was refering to. Think about airpods for example.

The teardown doesn’t touch on part serialization, although the ability to brick your device if they “feel like it” is on PAR with Apple.

Although I’m not sure we should be arguing about which of the two is shittier when both are already deep in non compliance of “modern right to repair regulations (lmao)”

The switch 2 gives out complete apple vibes. It’s repairability is pretty horrid after watching the teardown guide.

Controllers will fail sooner or later and will have to be replaced. Here it will end up replacing the whole stick just due to glueing small parts of the controller.

Battery will also fail sooner than later. The whole thing yells planned absolesence…

SEPA and Iban. It’s as simple as it gets. Also much more secure considering it’s a push payment instead of a pull one.

For easy payments, there is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code

Why do you say so?

Easy there, Powder… Although you are absolutely right

They are just lovely! :3

Japan and EU first comes to mind

I’ve been thinking a lot about this, but there are collegues that I consider friends, and wouldn’t want them to suffer the workload increase. Either way I still have some patience and not yet ready to jump ship.

Thanks for the suggestion, friend.