Yeah France remains one of the most productive countries in the European Union, so they must be doing something right

Here’s an interesting report on France productivity from 2019: https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2019-11/en_1errapportcnp-10july-final.pdf

Braflix is awesome, it’s my default go-to

No I believe you’re being intellectually disingenuous, because you’re now paraphrasing the comment you responded to, to try and twist the argument in your favour, the previous interaction was :

• Russia claiming X means war with NATO has been a bit of a recurring theme throughout the war.

To which you directly replied

• Please do provide a previous official quote from Russia stating that. I’ll save you the trouble though, cause it doesn’t exist.

I’m not sure I quite like where this is going and I’m not in the mood for arguing over such a minimal thing, so I’d like to end the interaction here, see ya around !

Idk where you’re going with this, I just felt like looking for direct quotes, because you asked for any quote from Russian officials saying that X would mean war with NATO.

While stating :

I’ll save you the trouble though, cause it doesn’t exist.

Putin: NATO’s Approval of Use of Long-Range Missiles by Ukraine Will Mean It is at War With Russia

‘Extremely Clear’: Kremlin Comments on Putin’s Warning About West’s Arms Striking Deep Into Russia

Putin Warns NATO Long-Range Missile Strikes Will Put Them at War with Russia

Russia warns NATO of ‘direct war’ over Ukraine

Enemies must realize Russia could go nuclear – ex-Kremlin adviser

Do note that I did not have to look for “western anti russian propaganda media” like… mainstream news. These are Russian state sponsored news websites.

If you were to judge based on this list, this would be a poor year for video games

Those are the winks of love

Zen Browser, love the split view feature, and native vertical tabs !

https://zen-browser.app/

It’s a Firefox fork btw

Firefox because of the addons, also because it syncs (weirdly, but still) with Firefox on my pc

Yeah idk what else can be a testimony of a game being a “hut” ; I don’t trust metacritic scores either

Listenbourg from Lidl

Yeah I went to Wikipedia to check the numbers :

The group’s “main catalogue”—songs released between 1962 and 1970—consists of 213 songs

So that’s like 50+ songs that were “hits”, wake me up when Gearbox releases 200+ games and 50 of those are nominated for at least one awards

That was what I was trying to convey thanks for being better at words haha

I remember when gearbox released a video about working on ROR2 after they acquired the IP. The CEO or creative director or whoever was talking about understanding people’s expectations, and called them “users”. Not players, not fans, just “users”. I thought this was a good enough warning that they had no idea what they were doing.

I think it was this video but I don’t remember the timestamp : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzD3jWETeW4 the fact that this is barely a documentary on the history of the game and itself a disguised and for their upcoming (at the time) dlc was another forewarning sign…

On the other hand, since it’s Ubisoft, you’re guaranteed a 70% sale 8 months after release for each of their games. I don’t know why anyone would buy their games on release when they all get deep discounts less than a year later

Unless it’s because so many people fall for their scams that they can afford those kind of sales

This interaction reads like a tennis match

Oh wow thanks for the correction, I’ll edit my comment

Most open source projects will have a donation page / link, so it relies on people feeling compelled to donate because the software provided is useful to them.

Lemmy for example has options for financially supporting its development. Some Lemmy instances also feature a link to a donation page to cover the hosting costs.

Some have an organisation behind it, like Firefox has the Mozilla Foundation to finance it. Actually it’s the other way around, see ahal’s comment below

The team behind VLC has a “for profit” branch that adapts the video software for companies, allowing them to also finance VLC’s development in addition to donations.

The instance I’m on is definitely smaller in scale and thus calls for a different approach to social media. It definitely feels like the old school forum days where you end up recognising usenames, I wouldn’t be surprised if a year down the line we end up setting up an irl meeting between active members.

On the other hand, it’s definitely hard to break bad habits, and having been on reddit for years, I still find myself having to fight some learned behaviour (doom scrolling, opening the app when I just closed it seconds ago, wanting to post a snarky comment to someone who’s clearly wrong instead of trying to be nice and explanatory…)

I wouldn’t say that leaving centralised platforms for the fediverse is a “lesser evil”, because the fediverse is what you make of it, you still have some control if you’re techy enough. But I do think it take extra voluntary self change to have a better approach to social media, and the fediverse isn’t a solution to that in itself.

[people trying to make a change] are worse than [people who don’t want to change and are uncomfortable being called out by the first group] is such an easy “unpopular” post to make

Surprised you didn’t write “they’re doing a disservice to their cause”