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Balthazar

@Balthazar@sopuli.xyz

20, male Dutch chap who spends too much time with British people and the internet xD

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TF is crate ent. on about?
They've not even made an RTS, let alone one with love and care out into it?
They've got an RPG* (grim dawn) and a city builder (farthest frontier) on steam.
Neither come anywhere close to what an RTS is supposed to be, and like others have said, Dune (don't know the specific name), C&C, warcraft and StarCraft we're all impressive mainstream games, all RTS.

Haven't read the post, but what if kind of detached world do they live in?

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Thanks for the link!
Tom Scott is amazing at explaining things like this :D
Its very, very much appreciated!

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He has though.
Its just not on his main channel. I think his podcast is still up and running, and although I haven't checked it lately the mailing service may be as well

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That's intended.
Even to premium subs youtube pushes adds which try and promote engagement.
Its fucking awful.

Does get me out of the loop sometimes though, so I guess Im thankful for that.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones ( www.theverge.com )

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

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To add, I personally have had all of the complaints of digital keyboards happen to physical ones. Just not the removal of the numpad. The others, wordt of which is lag, Ive had plenty.
Input lag IS THE WORST.

HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It ( www.extremetech.com )

In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In...

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For those who are completely clueless, this is meant as satire

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Point one:
I'm pretty certain they already track that. With or without account. And you're on the internet, without a VPN there is no privacy. You are also able to remove that history any moment you want.
Is it Ideal? No. But you should've acted 10-15 years prior if you wanted to stop this. It's still not ideal though.

Point two:
I agree. There does need to be space for them to repent, but they aren't actively trying to, so don't trust them (see the next point as an example of that).

Point three
That's a shame. They really need to fix that, though with how corpos do things nowadays, not sure that'll happen.

Point four:
That's normal, expected and a reasonable business decision. Most of these features they likely added after premium, and they're meant as incentives. Why else would you want to but their premium, if not for the added features?

Point five:
This is shitty and mostly inexcusable behaviour. It's god awful, and they really shouldn't do it.
I do have to play devil's advocate a little. They are fully, 100% in their right to do this. If you don't like it, vote with your wallet (and time). If we stop using their services, they'll stop making it worse.
They are still A-holes for doing it though.

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If you've already got that much of a set-up to guarantee privacy, it's a very good point.
Most people aren't that dedicated to privacy (I think), but it's still a very valid point in your case

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Oh, shit.
x.com = twitter, it's not Xcom (the game series) xD |
That took me waaay to long to realise lol

Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi... ( www.wired.co.uk )

Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi…::Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean...

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Technically sure. But what can unions do? What actual power do they have that they matter?

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I’m more aiming at the fact that protesting, the thing unions do to make changes happen, is illegal in a couple of states. Just straight up.

Aside from that I do live in Europe, so I’m a little uninformed of current laws against protesting

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