the play store, like other download stores, provides discoverability, trust, and all the infrastructure to distribute and automatically update your software products.

this is not a worthless service, otherwise publishers wouldn’t have flocked to Steam on Windows in the late ‘00s/early ‘10s. only the very biggest ones like EA and Ubisoft felt like they could make more money by rolling their own.

this doesn’t justify using anticompetitive practices to maintain your market position, but there is real value being provided there.

next summer at the earliest

i would love to get another one of the same quality as Beyond.

i don’t think people care so much that the qeustions are about sex, but rather that the content is lazy and poorly thought out. most of the time i see a post like that it reads like it was written by a 14 year old who didn’t bother to look at the dozens of prior threads asking basically the same thing.

what software can reliably generate stems from finished tracks? and will it still sound the same when you mix them back together?

dedicated nas systems are pretty overpriced imo, often costing as much or more than the drives you put in them. much cheaper to build your own. depending on your needs, this can be as simple as a raspberry pi plus an external hard drive.

no, because they don’t provide the stems, only the finished tracks

melee action games with this kind of setting are a dime a dozen.

making this a shooter actually makes it unique.

are you really complaining about indie developers releasing a game into early access?

there wouldn’t be much of a game left if they took out the guns

not everybody who uses IMDB was born after 9/11.

this isn’t a dig at gen-z for being “uncultured” or whatever, just pointing out that a substantial chunk of the population was able to experience the film before it became as “cliche” as it is today.

I believe they meant “Xitter”.

blu-rays are often as cheap or cheaper than “digital copies”, and ripping them to my NAS is pretty trivial these days thanks to makemkv.

the best part is, uncle jeff cannot legally break into your house and take back the disc just because of some petty rights issue.

No need for stuff that will get outdated and needs dealer updates (if they are even supplied).

This is specifically why people like CarPlay and Android Auto; they are managed by your phone instead of the car manufacturer. If you bought one of the first CarPlay capable cars in 2014, it still works with the new CarPlay features that just shipped in iOS 17 last week.

CarPlay and Android Auto basically turn your infotainment system into a dumb terminal for your phone. They work by turning it into a second display. All the head unit has to do is relay touch inputs back to the device. It is completely unaware of what actual software is running, it just sees a video signal and your fingers.

This is also probably why Tesla and General Motors don’t like it. They want you to pay them for the new features you otherwise get for free with your phone.

And it will still be usable in 5 years when you have a new phone and your car manufacturer has long since stopped providing free updates to the built-in maps.

CarPlay (and Android Auto) are basically driving-oriented UIs that your phone pushes to the head unit in your car. This means you get a full touch screen UI with your maps and music apps of choice, plus other apps that support it.

It beats mounting your phone over an AC vent because the screen is bigger and the UI is actually designed to be safe to use while driving (fewer, bigger buttons, more use of screen edges and corners so critical functions can be activated without looking).

Car makers don’t like this, because it means users are less likely to pay subscription fees for their shittier built-in internet services.

Tesla also refuses to support CarPlay and Android Auto, because they believe their software is better. And why shouldn’t we trust them? Tesla has a stellar record for fixing their buggy software even after your car is no longer in warranty. /s

this new run of Lion King comics is fucking intense

I have a YouTube Premium family plan. We use it so much that it’s easy for us to justify.

The Steam Link app is exceptional. the Apple TV natively supports Xbox and PlayStation controllers so it all works pretty seamlessly.

but then you expose your salt to the public