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it’s crazy that despite this happening a couple days ago, the official bioware website still says nothing about this closure. Like they didn’t even bother updating the site to say “hey btw we are closed” The optimistic side of me hopes that it’s because they want to try to go inde again and run on their own but… probably not.

yea that’s fair as well, I just didn’t see the point in playing a console that I didn’t have anything left to play on.

they did that with the previous Xbox,called it the all access pass. It was the unit combined with gamepads ult which you had for the duration of the two or three-year payment plan I understand their thought process on it because it does do a good job at forcing the consumer to have a subscription they normally wouldn’t have, but in reality, the only thing it did was make it so I didn’t purchase any actual games for the unit, so when their overpriced subscription finally ran out, I had no reason to continue using the console, and it’s basically collected dust since because all of the games I would have purchased, I had already played via Game Pass Ultimate, and I had no hard copy games to play.

Well, they had my attention because I was looking for new earphones, but they are another stupid tailed design one so guess this is a pass.

Why does it seem like nobody can make minimalistic earphones anymore. They all gotta be huge goady “LOOK AT ME WORLD I HAVE EARPHONES IN” style ones. If I wanted the entire world to know that I was wearing something I would wear headphones. The entire point of earphones is to keep them minimalistic in design, but we’ve lost that along the way.

You have correctly identified the core issue with open source.

Personally speaking, as inefficient as it is, I think that donations is the best way to support a self hosted open source project.

Followed by paying for licensing to be able to get support for the product.

If your project is open source any other restriction out there, you can’t really do because they can just fork and patch the software to remove the restriction.

Due to that restriction(or lack of), I’ve always personally seen most open-source projects to be more of a hobbyist or personal project then a project that someone wants to do to make money.

This happens whenever you’re talking about any topic that the AI model provider has decided arbitrarily they don’t want to do.

I got temporarily banned off deep-seek the other day because I was curious about how well generation technology has gotten for self-hosting. So I asked it about setting up Cozy UI because I had never used it before. Woke up the next morning to a your account has been suspended because we have deemed you a broke term to the service. In order to appeal you need a Chinese phone number, it made me chuckle.

Considering the only two questions I asked it was about cozy UI or how to make a recipe similar to the now discontinued flaming hot cheetos Mountain Dew(I missed the production window sadly!)

I’m leaning towards the cozy UI being the reason.

zabbix with ntfy for short term alerts and a telegram bot for long-term alerts.

man age checks on energy drinks must suck, we don’t habe that here or I likely would dislike doing self check a little as well.

I would still do it because its defo faster but it might cause me to at least potentially think about it

Yeah, I do agree your jurisdiction may vary.

In the US at least, you can’t change a terms of purchase via a terms of service.

So if it was stated at point of purchase that your system will be getting 10 years of updates, and then they decided six years in, you know what? We’re actually only going to do six years of updates, and then posted a terms of service that changed how long they were able to update it. That wouldn’t be legally binding.

In this case, though it doesn’t sound like they’re changing existing buyer’s agreements, it sounds like they are changing the purchase agreement for new consumers who haven’t purchased the product. which is far more legally enforceable as no agreement has been done in that case.

Still a shitty thing for them to do though, considering that they had promised that Chromebooks would have 10 years of updates but I don’t think they’re in violation of anything since it sounds like it’s only going to new consumers.

you are correct, if they sold them with a paper saying there will be 10 years of updates they are required to provide 10 years of updates. If not then they could be taken to court for either fraud or false advertising. Which they would likely not show up to cause that’s usually their go to.

The only benefit I could think of isn’t going to be in the areas that they want to deploy this service.

Like, I could see this being advantageous in lower populated areas that don’t really have DoorDash drivers.

But yeah, if you’re in a populated area, I don’t really get why I would want this over. Just having a traditional driver that arrives.

I guess if the system told me that it was going to be delivered by drone, so therefore I knew not to tip ahead of time? idk

yea 11m changes is quite a bit at once but, I wouldn’t expect a constant change like that. After all, the monorepo itself is a little over 3m lines, 1.37m of it being lang/locale files for every language for its front end, 600k of it is comments, and 1.5m is the rest of it.

For perspective, the watch division makes between $35 to $40 billion annually.

This commit was the refactor commit from the private dev flow to the open source repo. The process basically added a lot of files and deleted a bunch as well. it was long overdue but I wouldn’t expect constant 11m line code changes

That would make sense, although I think it’s unlikely that it embeds itself into the mods. It would probably replace itself. Since in order to embed itself into the mod, it would have to know how the mod is made/structured but I guess it would be possible if it was able to completely replace the existing mods with the worm.

I’m glad you added from 2025 there because otherwise it would have been super deceptive.

I definitely thought it happened again, and I was gonna be like, well that was fast. Like we all know it’s going to happen again, but that would have been extremely fast.

Yeah, that’s how I took it, but the developer acted like every system that was on the workshop was infected. They never listed a mod that caused the issue and instead just issued a blanket statement of this is what happened. It’s very weird.

I was originally going to add that usually different services can use the same name as long as there’s no overlap, but you can’t even use that on this one because they’re both blogging platforms.

Yeah, unless they have authorization from the original project this is likely going to require a name change.

I don’t own this game or project or whatever it is, but I’m confused. How does a mod getting hacked on a workshop make it so every player that’s on the workshop has a virus?

Wasn’t Shopify one of the first companies to go all in on an AI infrastructure? I seemed to recall reading that about a year or two ago.