I’m not disputing that. I’m just finding it silly to call purchases donations.

Thanks for the link. I watched it to the end and I don’t see the 3 billion claim, he kept saying he wants to stop money going to Israel. Feel free to timestamp where it is, maybe I missed it.

It’s a fair deal, but the point is it’s not a donation. You can purchase pro features, and that’s great. But it’s not a donation if you get a product in return, that’s just a purchase.

Your linked evidence shows him saying that he wants to stop supporting Israel, contrary to the first sentence of your post.

It’s a bit difficult listening to the interview with that YouTube guy telling you what to think, but it’s there if you endure.

Hence I said I don’t think it’s worth it. You only get a smaller controversy about refusing to answer on a topic, rather than a bigger one because the answer was politically incorrect.

For what benefit?

No risk of creating a controversy if you refuse to answer controversial topics. Is is worth it? I don’t think so, but that’s certainly a valid benefit.

They are full of biases, and this example is clearly intended by the creators, but many biases are unintended. Google doesn’t have a secret agenda against black doctors, their AI is just biased and they haven’t figured out how to fix it. It’s not an excuse, but not all biases are there because of some evil plan, but because the tech sucks. Recent news show how Google tried to make their AI unbiased, which backfired and just made it even more biased in the other direction.

The blog does not talk to Lemmy instances, nor Lemmy instances talk to the blog. The blog does not implement ActivityPub. Lemmy comments of the articles do not show up on the blog. You can follow the bot, and it definitely makes the content available, but it doesn’t fit most people’s understanding of “federated”. Twitter doesn’t federate with Mastodon, even if there are bots that copy Twitter content onto Mastodon.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great initiative. But I think calling it federation is misleading.

Sorry, I must have missed the “no fun allowed” sign

Don’t get me wrong, I’m just curious how it works because I keep seeing it mentioned, and it’s just frustrating that nobody ever explains it!

Then they claim the films are literally worse than worthless, and report all expenses incurred as loss, which lowers their tax burden.

Yes I get that part, but I don’t get how they are better off with that? If a company has a profit of 10 million, then they burn 2 million on a manufactured loss, they only have to pay tax on 8 million of profit. Makes sense. Let’s say the imaginary tax here is 50%. They could have got 5 million after tax, but after this maneuver they only get 4 million after tax. So it doesn’t make sense. What am I missing?

Your comment is spot on but doesn’t answer my question.

Steam itself does support VR on Linux, but most of the actual hardware (like Meta headsets) don’t have drivers for Linux. The ones that do (Valve Index) are buggy, but not unusable. But even then it doesn’t get you far, because 90% of VR games won’t run on Linux, even with Proton.

So Steam is not the problem. Hardware support and developer support is the problem. Can’t really blame developers for not caring, even if they make their VR game work on Linux almost no one would be able to play it anyway, so why bother. It won’t get anywhere unless hardware manufactures start making actual drivers for their headsets on Linux. Meta practically controls the market and they don’t care, so here we are.

So it’s just a meaningless phrase you included in your post? People keep saying that but I have yet to see a single explanation of how it’s actually good that something failed for the company that made it.

Living room PC is also used for playing VR games (since living room has the space required). Sadly Windows is the only option.

That makes sense, but doesn’t explain at all why did you post a title you clearly know is untrue.

What doors? Post doesn’t mention any doors.

That’s your claim though. They are storing “male, 24” and that’s it, no face. Of course they could be lying and actually are storing faces, but it doesn’t look like it. And it’s also perfectly valid to object to them storing even “male, 24”.

Yeah, any 2 bodies actually orbit a common point in between themselves. In case of the Sun and Earth that point is probably still inside the Sun, not far from the center.

9*10=90 Ends in 0.

If that’s what you’d like to do, you do you.

That’s what they mean. There are many games on Steam which after downloading from Steam, you can just copy and they don’t need Steam to work. You can delete Steam and keep these games forever.

The confusion stems from the fact there no APIs in Android that let apps use RCS. Only Google can use it on Android and no other apps can use it. Anyone can make an SMS app. Only Google can make an RCS app.

It is an open standard, meaning you are free to create your own operating system for phones that implements RCS. But Google doesn’t let you use it on Android, so in practice it’s closed.

Plus, Google’s implementation of RCS adds extra features (like encryption) that aren’t part of the standard. So even if you create your own operating system that implements RCS, it will still be incompatible. So that’s another reason it’s not really open.