Perhaps I worded it poorly, but my point was that companies shouldn’t go bankrupt when they make a mistake.

If you keep doing it after you’ve been told, then you’re no longer just making a mistake it’s obviously malicious, but I don’t think then Apple should go bankrupt when they incorrectly implement a new law.

While I personally don’t think it’s accidental, you should be more lenient towards a first offense for any new law (unless you can prove it was intentional, which is incredibly hard).

While true, 568m is a significant cost of doing business. Also remember that a punitive action should not make the company go bankrupt, it should make them rethink.

And if they don’t, the fines will go higher, until they do rethink.

Steam is equally shitty, they just have the advantage of not being publicly traded which means they can create long term strategies and execute them successfully.

Doesn’t mean they’re pro consumer.

I mean, not even 500k people in the whole of EU care about this apparently, so we get what we deserve, I guess.

It really looked like it’ll be signed quickly in the beginning, I was really hopeful.

Now I’m not really sure it will pass.

J2ME are old dumb non-touchscreen phones. My last one was Sony Ericsson j108i. And just now reading the Wikipedia entry, it was actually the last non-smartphone phone by Sony Ericsson! Nice.

Damn, the nostalgia is real. And the design still looks much better than smartphones which look pretty much all the same. Back then, phones had personality.

The Sony Ericsson phones in particular had very advanced J2ME support that I didn’t see that much difference between that and my first smartphone (Nokia C5-03). Not that there weren’t differences, the smartphone was definitely more advanced, but it wasn’t that huge of a leap.

Nope, it doesn’t have a controller built-in and its main purpose isn’t gaming. You can’t run PS games on a Switch, does that somehow magically make either not a console?

Oh, you’re not wasting my time, I decided to waste it myself. I just don’t understand how “you can host a server in your garage” is even a seriously meant answer to replacing AWS.

Like, at my day job I’m responsible for managing an AWS stack that costs the company upwards of $20,000 per month. And we’re far from the largest users. You can’t store that in a garage.

You can play Mario on old dumb phones using J2ME emulators.

Another likely cause: you’re posting to a non-local community and you got hit by federation issues, while your instance thinks the post got created, the target instance doesn’t know about it.

Happened to me a few times.

Everyone also always forgets that they save money on distribution massively. And that the amount of games sold has increased significantly.

It’s not as simple as dollars had more value, games should cost more.

It’s a console and a PC in one package! Or you feel like the other consoles don’t have an operating system in them?

You can play Switch games on Steam Deck! At least I do. Some play even better than on Switch.

You feel like US has been very, well, united in the last few decades?

I mean, you very obviously don’t know what do these cloud services sell, so why even participate in a discussion you’re not qualified to be in at all?

No, you cannot migrate your AWS stack to your garage server.

They literally have a dictator. Before this election they were 100% worse than US. Now they’re only like 50% worse.

Does Dungeons 3 or 4 count? If so, these games are great.

Unless you use a very limited set of features, you can’t really migrate to anything else than another of the big American clouds. And maybe some Chinese ones, though I’ve never seen what they offer.

I mean, if I didn’t know what you’re talking about, that comment on its own would look very hostile. You can’t expect everyone to know the same things you do.

Well, at least our geography teacher taught us that UK is part of Europe, even if it’s not mainland Europe.