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I guess now is better than later, but plenty of people already knew that litigious and rich companies are never good.

More features that are preparing for full federation support! Exciting!

a joyful proof of concept

Wow that’s a sad thing to say about the second game in that (sub)series. Even the first should’ve been more than a proof of concept. It would be excusable for a $20 early access game on Steam to be a tech demo of this calibre, but not a $85 (CAD) game. It does interest me enough to consider eventually picking up a used copy do dump to my Steam Deck, which is about the highest complement I can offer a Nintendo game.

Apparently genocide is ok but mass surveillance isn’t, so they’ll continue to do business with Israel but just won’t let one unit use it.

Microsoft must completely stop all service to everyone in Israel. Anything less is still supporting genocide.

This is the first time I’ve seen someone suggest PowerTools specifically to waste energy lol

It’s never really been about upfront price so much as longevity. If you can avoid a laptop upgrade e.g. every 5 years by upgrading just a few components instead, it’ll last you longer and cost you less longterm.

Fundamentally, the cheapest way to build electronics is with very little modularity. Making parts swappable is more complicated to design and needs more components to be included. Both drive up the cost of the product.

No sweat if it’s too expensive or that’s not what you care about (ok, though you should sweat not caring about longevity), but making it all about the price is sort of missing the point. Capitalism is a tool for improving our lives but is not the only tool for that.