They want to become another forever platform. The cosplay is a nonprofit, when in reality they are a for-profit company that has a non-profit org in their leadership.

I don't think they can help but institify into a smaller version of Google at this point, and I don't want anyone vendor to own my entire Tech stack. Never again.

Please. You're giving me a headache. /s

Thank you! I'm quite proud of holding to my convictions, to the degree that I divested from every ETF in my retirement portfolio which was obligated to load up on the spacegrift stock, and to minimize my exposure in my taxable holdings wherever I could afford to.

I want to make sure that I don't grow my wealth in a sleazy way.

Oh, you perhaps misunderstand me, friend. I'm saying their revenues are a momentary mirage, the liabilities aren't.

They need income that substantiates the growth game and justifies the outlandish, impossible tidal wave of debt they are raising. Their competitors nipping at their heels and stealing all of their progress, and making it run on commodity hardware to boot, only narrows that field of play for justifying their market growth.

If you're Tesla and unmasking your customer base revealed it was all just BYD all the way down (or, say, something TRULY absurd like everyone found out all of the cybertrucks were bought by SpaceX) then it would cast serious doubt about their viability with the next generation of customers targeted for that product.

Spacex really changed the game, forcing the markets to load up that ish in our 401(k)'s.

Next, when Musk threatens to "gift" every child spacex stock in their Trump accounts, it's another form of using the general public as an exit , well artificially propping up the moonshot companies stock values.

It is a Master Class in forcing volatility into the financial lives of not just retail investors but Main Street people.

Check out what portion of Anthropic revenues turned out to be processing distillation for others, namely Chinese market players.

A huge portion of their revenue basically came from their competitors using their horsepower against them to build the next, better mouse trap

Thanks for the analysis. I've got to say. We on Lemmy can be vicious.

People should be deeply grateful for NPR, and PBS has been a national treasure. I still can't believe we defunded Sesame Street and at the same time that anyone has an axe to grind with the only unbiased reporting left in our nation.

Thanks for the link.

Plot twist: Valve was never in the battery manufacturing business, they were always third-party batteries just sometimes embedded in devices for first party sale.

How is this person forcing you? Are you an adult? So they provide the material benefits for your life, like good and shelter?

If "yes" to being an adult, and then "no" to being a dependent or an employee, then this requires a lot more conversation.

If you have an android phone, you can make use of FDroid and Islands/'Insular' (without root access) to have a separately secure side of your phone for apps and system settings.

For example, I loaded all of my work apps in there and then set a VPN so that ALL OFF THEM were unable to connect to the Internet when the VPN was offline, so that the ip-location and the DNS didn't tattle on my travels. My regular phone use was secured away to the point I couldn't accidentally send photos from my regular photos app through my work email app, only the second copy that lived within that 'secure folder' style partition.

Obviously your situation is harsher but at least you can mitigate a bit by being able to offline the app for considerable intervals, this way.

Good luck. I hope that you share more of this story.

Edit: I see you are stuck on iOS. I have zero suggestions for your specific situation besides "work on the relationship, and your always have the right to walk away from the business or the adult relationship if it's untenable."

This gives me tremendous hope for more x86 game emulation on Android devices, because Valve have been throwing resources behind the development of FEX for emulation on ARM for the Frame.

I am absolutely convinced that my existing phone and retro gaming handheld have enough horsepower for 3D games from 6 years ago once this compatibility layers are built out a bit.

Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.

Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000's, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there's always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.

The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.

I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.

The author would like to apologize for bad English in the docs. A rand() function putting (the, a, an) in articles would probably be more accurate.

The developer has an excellent sense of humor.

Samsung s22 and s25, checking in. Graphene won't be viable for the vast, overwhelming majority of Android users today or in the coming seasons.

I hope people figure out some kind of virtualization/docker-containerization solution to the coming Goo-lag.

I absolutely adore GOG for being like this, and for consistently applying pressure to publishers and other marketplace vendors alike.

I just also have A Steam Library with like 1200+ titles, and it's measured in Terabytes. And butrot in my physical media will be non zero, in long enough timescale.

I consider my continued patronage of buying games to be my subscription costs to the platform vendors. 🤣

Yep, back to scoring the open web or being SEO'd into hellish sites that have six "DOWNLOAD" links, five of which are probable for syphilis.

That's going to be $0.80 for each of us

'A bit later' is really all the is required to meet the standard. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/tesla-isnt-a-gurantee-for-the-sp-500-even-with-year-of-profits.html

S&P Dow Jones has a history of making companies earn it, including previous Elmo ventures.

I'm not bullish on any of it, and I'm desperately trying to exit AI holdings as swiftly as I'm able, but I am deeply comforted by major indexes requiring companies demonstrate profitability or at least meaningful actual revenue beyond the self-dealing that we've seen between the IPO hopefuls.

Things are getting Hua-wei out of hand!

I'm confused, having never got into Halo at all. Isn't that was the Master Chief collection was?

Edit: got it, Remake vs Remaster, thanks, kind humans!