Because the government has all the fucking data it needs to just tell me how much I owe, but no they force me to calculate it myself every year. Or to pay an accountant because it’s a horrible mess of a form.
My main issue is with taxes in general. Well over half of my income (some sources suggest up to 70%) ends up being paid as some kind of tax.
Which is a real shame.
Well, just the usual, slightly less optimistic every year. I believed that world is fair even if it sometimes takes a while, that I’ll be rich, that you can achieve anything if you try enough.
Over time I learned that the world isn’t fair, that you can’t be rich if you have a conscience and that you can only achieve what the ones with power over you will let you.
All of that of course has an exception: you might get lucky.
The most recent change was when I started watching two kinds of cases and what is the usual resolution / punishment. It’s rape cases and who gets to keep the kids when people break up. Rapists usually walk away with very lax punishments with bullshit reasons and women almost always get the kids, even if the woman is straight up a psycho and the man is just a regular guy.
I wasn’t under the impression that judges were somehow better than the average person, but this kinda showed me that they’re actually much much worse than the average person.
So because you do it correctly, everyone else should get fucked or what? Like, you know how many people have bad parents?
So, congrats, your kids won’t suffer from that (or maybe they will once they have their own money because the path way of “spend a $1, get an in-game item, get an instant rush of feel-good hormones” is forming even with moderation). But other kids may, unless of course you think that it’s somehow their fault they have shitty parents.
So no, I really don’t want this around kids whose lives will be ruined just so your kids can have a fun time (which they can have in other ways, including other games).
Nah, I’m obsessed with corporations not ruining kids lives just to get few more dollars.
Also, please, stop putting words into other people’s mouths.
Cool, that’s why half the games you listed are just gambling machines in disguise?
Ah, the classic “world hunger is a myth, I have eaten today.”
I’m not saying there are not the rare gems in mobile games (just bought Don’t Starve on Android last month!), but like 99% of games for mobile are just s money making scheme using dark patterns to influence your brain to give them money.
And congrats on not spending on micro transactions! You do realize the world doesn’t revolve around how your perceive things, right? If young people are exposed to micro transactions like that, it alters their brains and not in a good way. And that’s science, there really isn’t much you can argue with.
Because the games are intentionally made with micro transactions as the main feature.
Like, if you play Witcher or Control or whatever, the focus is on you enjoying the game. If you play Fortnite, the main focus is on getting you pay. The game is probably still fun, but every single thing in the game is meant to make you pay.
Who would’ve thunk, young people with brains that are not fully developed tend to prefer games with addictive elements.
They mean push notifications where you need to store a device identifying URL to push your notifications to.
If traceability is a concern, using the native iOS notifications is not much better, you just move the burden to Apple (which I assume will be more than happy to cooperate, given they’re an American corporate), so nothing is really solved.
The only good solution is your own backend which knows nothing and each app installation maintains a permanent WebSocket connection, then you push them to each client.
There are ways to work around that, though it requires the developer to create some server infrastructure.
Edit: Also pretending that using Apple is fine is not secure - Apple can provide the data (given it’s a US based company) if law enforcement asks, so not knowing them personally doesn’t change much.
If it fits, great! If it doesn’t, you didn’t use enough tape.
I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a strategical drinker!
Yeah, it most likely isn’t an exe but a Linux binary! Other than that, you can probably run the server on your computer pretty easily. You probably won’t be able to host anywhere close to the number of players the official servers do, but that’s just a matter of stronger hardware.
So yeah, they don’t provide the server because they’re “evil”.
They could also do the bare minimum of patching the game so it allows any server and avoid stuff like certificate pinning etc. and then provide an OpenAPI specification for the server and let the community create their own server if they want.
Only the $550 version. The cheaper one will work on best effort basis Manjaro edition.
That’s probably your social bubble. My company is currently deepthroating everything that has AI in its name. I jokingly mentioned they should rename the company to Jira&AI, the joke was not well received.
Anyway, most people I know (including me) are somewhere in the middle - not quite fans in the traditional sense, but definitely not disliking AI.
It’s not any more secure. The point that “installing random debs is insecure” has been running around for at least the last 16 years I’ve been a Linux user.
While it’s technically true, AppImages are as secure as random debs. Same with random repositories that are not provided by your system. Same with flatpaks.
And unless you’re an extremely basic user, you’ll eventually have to install an application not in your repositories. The method doesn’t really matter, it’s all equally (in)secure.
Well, NixOS is mostly for enthusiasts and it’s very much the opposite of beginner friendly.
The idea is that you configure your system in a configuration file, then run a command that makes your system match exactly what you configured.
So instead of apt install or similar you just add the package to your config, run a single command to rebuild the system and you’re done.
Which also means you’re mostly on your own, most guides for other distros don’t work and the documentation on how to do the things in NixOS are very incomplete. It’s nice and fun, but definitely not for an average user.
Congrats on the US defaultism! I’m not from the US, so stick your crack comment up your arse.