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Beautiful architecture and streets. A lot of homelessness and rats everywhere though. Bakery food/breads were fantastic. We found people to be a lot more welcoming in rural France than in Paris.

Didn't go during Olympics, this was pre-COVID.

Bad headline but reasonable argument within. Concord probably failed for the reasons people outlined, sure.

The point is that peoples fingers aren't quite as on the pulse of what will make something successful as what we give ourselves credit for. We attribute reasons for something's success or failure after the fact.

Personally, I don't know what makes a hero shooter successful or not. A game like this could be going gangbusters for some reason in 6 months time and I would probably not understand why. I say that as someone who's been an avid gamer over the last 30 years.

Hmmm.. okay it sounds like the subscription model does actually make some sense for devices that need to maintain an internet connection/IoT applications. Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me.

I agree that IOT things need to be secure. Is it really too much to ask that apps/devices are made secure from the ground up?

To stay on the thermomix, all the subcription is is a connection to their servers to give access to their live step by step recipes. Surely that's just a secure end-to-end encrypted connection? I'm not a developer but it doesn't sound like buyers should be expected to pay the manufacturer to maintain beyond buying a thermomix/upgrading to new versions of the hardware when they want to access any new features.

I completely agree with you in principle for people who want their software updated, but there is some software that is standalone and doesn't depend upon changing codecs/APIs etc. Something like myfitnesspal or a thermomix shouldn't be a subscription, there is no major updates to how someone tracks their exercise uses a hot blender that justifies it beyond users being locked in.

In the example of thermomix, you've already paid top dollar for the hardware, getting locked out of functionality you've paid for stings.

I've been meaning to download the manuals of everything I own from here for my NAS. This website is a treasure.

This is the first game I played and beat in the first console I ever owned.

Your country is insane.

In any other democratic nation in the world, a politician saying this would be finished.

I hope for the sake of humanity that all the sane people in the US go out and tells everyone they know that cares about democracy and the rule of law what Trump is planning to do, especially in the swing states.

It turns out that job security is rather important! Who would have thunk that, Microsoft?

We all know black-pilled Linux from scratch is the best. Gentoo is just a bit too bloated.

Just to add to the noise.. I'm shocked that Obsidian is not the number one app that people are talking about. Didn't even know there were so many other great options, to be honest.

Edit: it's because it's not open source. The plugins all have to be open source, and it is free as in beer. I'm keeping this comment up.

I can't help but feel that Web 3.0 will accelerate climate change. That said, I know nothing about it except that crypto people are excited about it, which means that money can probably be made from it.