Where I worked QA did nothing else but programming. They were writing automated tests for anything we worked on.

I’m guessing they are moving raw mined resources. I try to never do that and only transport processed products where the volume is much lower.

No, not nice at all. I’m answering your question on why he doesn’t ban Israeli contributors, not deliberating on the niceness of anyone in particular.

I completely agree he was unprofessional about it and should have handled it better. It was his choice in how he communicated it, and I think he failed on that point. Having said that, it was not his choice to do it, and I’m sure he will undue it when it’s legally possible. Hopefully using better judgement on his choice of words then.

Because he’s not making any political, moral, or personal decisions, and only follows the law he is forced to.

When the law forces him to sanction Israel, he will do so, and when the law stops forcing him to sanction Russia, he will stop doing so.

Usually uprooting your life and moving to another country implies a job change. At least that’s how I read the comment.

Yeah, my SteamVR library is why I keep a Windows virtual machine around.

Have you tried that fun fact? I know there was a meme claiming it, but I have never found any evidence of it actually being true, nor did I manage to replicate it on Amazon.

I understood it perfectly well, and wanted to clarify that it is not the concept of paying for mods that is problematic, but implementations like Steam did.

Because just saying “the paid mods shit” gives people a wrong idea that giving creators money is a bad thing, when that’s not the problematic part.

Why you took my “the store shouldn’t get a cut” comment and thought I support stores getting a cut, I have no clue.

You do know that this whole comment chain was started by Valve trying to push paid mods with the help of Bethesda right?

Yes, I started the conversion by saying that’s bad and should be called out, why?

“kid down the street” really? Are you creating the image of a fictional modder to attract pity?

No, I’m going with your story of being a kid with no money in a third world country, because it was my childhood too. I solved that problem by spending my free time modding a free to play game – I was that kid down the street. Never got paid though. I would love if others did.

So lets see, 30% goes to Steam, 45% goes to Bethesda and whats left to the “modder who actually needs the money” is… 25% yep

Yep, total bullshit. Why are you bringing it up though? We are in agreement here.

Are you okay with paying foreign corporations to exploit the work of the “kid down the street”, keeping the vast majority of the profit?

No, why? As I said in my first comment, they shouldn’t get a cut. I’m not sure why are you are bringing these arguments to me, as if I ever disagreed.

Before you start typing ‘but other companies wouldn’t charge so much from the modder!’,

Why would I ever type that, when I only support paid mods where all of the money goes to the modder without middlemen stealing a share?

If you WANT to pay for mods I really need to ask, what is stopping you? If you actually care about the modders getting money, many of them have ko-fi/patreon platforms where they actually keep most of the money you give them

Nothing, not long ago I bought a Kerbal Space Program mod for volumetric clouds from a guy called Blackrack. It’s a paid mod only available by paying him on Patreon. It looks amazing and I think it’s great he gets money for it. Which is why I support paid mods and don’t like when people are against them.

There is nothing stopping you from paying for mods, now that Im an adult with a job I do pay for them often.

Not sure why are you against them then. Based on your comments I think you are not against paid mods, you are against companies like Steam or Bethesda taking a cut. Which is exactly my position too, so I’m not sure what are you actually disagreeing with me about.

Wow, you managed to completely reverse what I said.

By your logic we should also make libraries paid, […] lets put a price on everything

That doesn’t follow at all. Books are not free, and yet libraries work just fine. By my logic we should allow book authors to charge for their books. Oh right, we already do. Why do you not like that?

I didn’t mention having to charge for anything at all, even mods. I think mod authors should be allowed to charge for them if they choose to, just like for anyone else making anything else.

and charge for all FOSS too

What a great example of my point. Charging for software is allowed, and yet there is lots of software released for free. Seems it’s not that bad after all?

What an utopia this will lead to!

Quite the opposite. Good thing I don’t share your ideas.

I come from a third world country and as a kid most people could only afford one maybe two games, all my friends bought half-life and warcraft 3

So you were fine with paying foreign corporations for these games, but you are not fine paying the kid down the street for his mod? Why do these well-off corporations deserve your money, but the modder who actually needs the money doesn’t?

So is all art, should artists all work for free? Why do I have to pay for books and movies? Aren’t the authors motivated by passion? Isn’t your argument the same one used by corporations underpaying game devs all the time, “since they should be happy fulfilling their passion”?

the capitalistic idea that only money can motivate people to do things sucks.

Agree, and I wish we lived in an utopia where nobody needs money and everyone can share their work freely. Sadly, this is not the world we live in, and so we need to reward passionate people to let them dedicate time to their passion rather than having to only focus on work for survival. That way not only rich people can afford to make mods.

Why are you against mod creators getting paid for their work? Some mods are amazing and definitely deserve some money.

The store shouldn’t get a cut though. But if that’s what you mean, let’s call that out specifically.

Since it’s end to end encrypted, Ente just sees some raw bytes, it has no way to tell if what you uploaded is an image or not. So in practice it supports whatever the client can display, so your browser for the web version.

What’s a realistic reply to “oh my God, I’m so sorry!” if you are pretending you got that out of the blue without any context?

I’d assume someone close to me died and I don’t know about it.

That’s correct. Google Maps imagery is not satellite data, it’s airplane photos.

It’s not like getting Ublock Origin from the official website instead of the Chrome Web Store is some kind of a problem.

Ok, well “broken” sounded like, you know, that things don’t work.

They didn’t:

• Android 12: Snow Cone
• Android 13: Tiramisu
• Android 14: Upside Down Cake
• Android 15: Vanilla Ice Cream

They stopped using the codenames in marketing, but they are still there.

What’s broken about it? I use Kubuntu and everything is working fine.