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A 30% cut for steam games sold on steam and a 0% cut for steam keys sold by the publisher wherever they want with the caveat that they must give steam users the same sales at around the same time. They get their games hosted on Steam’s industry best CDN, a page with support for images and videos, an API with features users like, workshop API for mod hosting and delivery, and other SteamWorks API stuff for stuff like multiplayer, patch management without charging a fee for it, forum hosting to hit the highlights. Pretty much all of that drives engagement and is mostly turn-key though you do have to programmatically interact with their API when it makes sense.

Steam provides a lot of benefit for a 30% cut of what is sold on their store front and a lot more benefit for getting all of the above for a 0% cut if they sell steam keys outside of steam.

Q Files – The Truth is not on 4Chan

Can’t wait for a story from a developer or sysadmin that knows how all the duct tape is held together, gets laid off and refuses to come back to fix everything. Then the former employer doubles doubt and threatens to sue them for loss of revenue. It would be absurd but I expect the absurd now.

Finally. Intuit has been lobbying for years to keep this from happening.

Derrick Plummer, a spokesman for Intuit, said taxpayers can already file their taxes for free and there are online free-file programs available to some people. Individuals of all income levels can submit their returns for free via the mail.

A “direct-to-IRS e-file system is a solution in search of a problem, and that solution will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars,” he said. “We will continue unapologetically advocating for American taxpayers and against a direct-to-IRS e-file system because it’s a bad idea.”

And who believes that crap anyway? Intuit markets their solution due to the complicated nature of anything outside of standard deductions and figuring out if you should itemize and how to do that.

Intuit has spent $25.6 million since 2006 on lobbying, H&R Block about $9.6 million and the conservative Americans for Tax Reform roughly $3 million.

Now if the states get on board for easy filing online, it’ll be great.

Anyone else always annoyed at “girl armor” in games? Always looking like a two piece bathing suit and always either the stomach showing or an open V on the bust? Maybe you get some stupid armored skirt and bare legs too.

It isn’t that I don’t like playing heroines/villainess because I think they can definitely be bad ass and look cool as shit kicking ass but it is terribly done in the vast majority of games, in my opinion.

I don’t judge anyone for their own thing but I think it sucks personally.

As an elder millennial that boomers and X’ers always mistake for an X’er, I had never heard of avocado toast before the meme.

I’m glad I tried it though because I really like it but I’d never order it from anywhere though. Seems odd to pay like $6 - $12 for a single toasted slice of small bread with an avocado spread on it.

I know it’s bleeding edge and asking a lot in a technical sense but how about letting us set what our homepage actually is? I know in the ~35 years browsers have existed, this has been an elusive feature but if anyone can do it, it is Mozilla.

It is happening in California too because of all of the wild fires mostly.

I rent in a medium-high-density non-US housing complex.

Well, we’re talking about home ownership here. If you’re renting then your landlord/management company or whatever decides policies that are compliant with your laws. If they allow some sort of HOA-like structure where residents can participate in a sort of ‘council’ that advises them or has some sort of authority of the landlord, then so be it.

I did however, bring up condos, where a person essentially has an ownership stake in a housing complex but other people also have ownership of their dwelling and the land is shared. It absolutely makes sense to have an HOA then. Someone’s got to arbitrate in shared spaces and since the person that owns the dwelling doesn’t have a landlord, then well, it would be terrible not to have an HOA.

Local governing bodies are not necessarily based in racism

I didn’t say they were. I am stating a fact, that in the US, HOAs started as way to enforce gentrification. There were actual racist deed agreements and binding covenants. This isn’t an opinion or speculation.

Sources:

University of Washington
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Housing Matters
Denver Post
Business Insider

But experience has also told me that this works better when the overarching legal systems are more accessible and corruption-resistant.

OK but that’s not everyone’s opinion. My neighbors and I get along fine without an HOA, except for the lady who denied receiving my package once even though I had it on camera and my wife’s curtains are hanging on her windows now but an HOA wouldn’t have solved that anyway.

Yes I did and I’m embarrassed. Thank you for the correction!!

HOAs started as a way to keep neighborhoods white only. Now it’s a way for developers to have a super majority vote to keep giving themselves contracts and a way for control freaks to control their neighbors. They started as bad actors and now some are bad actors for other reasons.

Not all HOAs are terrible but there aren’t a lot of actual accountability in-spite of some laws to stop corruption and there’s not a ton of benefits for most except perhaps for condos.

For example, I wouldn’t mind having an HOA that contracts rates for trash, lawn care, creates and maintains a park with some stuff for kids, maintains beautification of non-homeowner areas and maybe even has security patrols. You know, actual amenities to keep the neighborhood nice and convenient for the home owners. Not an HOA that makes sure that shampoo bottles in people’s bathroom windows aren’t visible, front doors have to match some aesthetic or have to approve decks and sheds for people’s yards.

Back when I was a hardware engineer (embedded hardware, not really part of IT) for avionics, most of what I’d see where the interfaces weren’t standard inside ‘black boxes’ were really just PCs on a motherboard with a ‘bus controller’ (not really a bus controller) that could be slotted into a PCI. You just have to pass the PCI from the hypervisor to the VM where the drivers and OS that uses it sits.

An issue that hangs some people up is some hardware that required an RTOS and was being virtualized is the CPU scheduler (due to vCores/HT/SMT) but those didn’t run on Windows of course. My solution is just pinning the physical CPU and every odd core (if I can’t just turn HT/SMT off) to the VMs with an RTOS. Works great.

Most data connections are just serial types and the Data|TX -/+ or TX|RX are simply swapped in the pin-out with a ‘proprietary’ formfactor that’s easy to pigtail into whatever.

Maybe I should just go into business modernizing old lab and factory equipment’s compute.

I actually posted that in science_memes a few days ago including other solutions as well as hardware passthru. People kept replying that it wasn’t a solution because alternatively the lab doesn’t have the expertise and somehow after 2 decades the only solution available is to continue to fight a losing battle of maintaining with no longer made hardware and also that source code availability would somehow just magically be maintained by magic software developers also interested in it after all of this time.

There’s more goal post moving and some stretching assumptions in the responses but that’s the ultimate gist.

It isn’t that I’m again code rights dying with a vendor or even source code availability but I was merely posting that these types of problems are too common and solvable already outside of severe edge cases.

I didn’t know that ansible-galaxy had a comic