The suit, which is ongoing, centers on what the developers alleged was a tacit company policy designed to punish them for offering discounts at competing online stores. But instead of defending the purported rule, Newell just denied it existed. “Valve does not have a policy or practice of dictating prices to third-party software developers on other platforms,” he said, according to a previously unreported transcript of his deposition. Presented with internal communications in which Valve employees appeared to be enforcing the rule, Newell repeated his denial, at times verbatim, again and again. When an attorney pressed him on how Valve would react if a developer did charge less money for a game on a competing store, Newell demurred. “I’m confused by your question,” he said, before later adding, “Many of our partners and many of our customers are quite happy with the service that we’re providing.”

from the bloomberg article.

im fine with quillpad

the bible is not enough anymore. we need a new god which is always watching us.

just so you know: big tech apps have 4.5+ rating cause of bot ratings. the only way is to just use something else. qobuz simply bans ai music from the platform, deezer has better artist recommendation by having people correct the algorythm a bit. there are alternatives out there, you do not have to live in shame anymore.

…just make sure op is at least 30, so can handle a 15 year old firefox ui and featureset and lacking extensionsupport

as usually you have to go with privacy respecting open source browsers, cause those dont get pointless feature integrations. you havent specified the platform so:

• for android: ironfox, fennec, helium
• for pc: ungoogled chromium, librewolf, helium

you should also look around on alternativeto.net

its hella annoying to read this paragraph pop up shite. tried ironfox reading mode but also failed.

there is some irony in writing about the old internet in an overstylised unreadable format.

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i had thoughts like that, then later realised my ex boss doesnt deserve a fast death

“Office EU is a complete cloud-based office suite (like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) that is 100% European-owned and runs entirely on European infrastructure.”

its datafarming

i still like pod. lyrics suck, but the sound is still on point.

wrong meme, but true

i just hope you dont work in hr

“Docs Live, Gemini Omni Flash, Gemini Spark, Information Agents, Google Pics, or the new Daily Brief”

these are kinda non everyday apps, so google cannot harvest enough data, which means a payment fee. nothing extraordinary news, just a clickbait title.

oh no…wait didnt they say this last time?

i buy a watch everytime i have a big thing happening in my life. new place, new job, stuff like that. usually go for one that has date and day counter, cause im buying them if i cant use them for the purpose they were designed in the first place.

ive seen people with full gmail accounts and thounds of unread emails

as long as you pay them

been the number 2 recommendation after shitass proton on alternativeto.net. ui is a bit weird, but works. password generstion def needs more options tho, some sites need more number or more special characters.

we used to use it at work. i hated it, cause it did not recognise any non english european character during search. i wonder what happens if someone with a full cyrillic alphabet starts to use a mess like this.