While the minimal effort Epic Games has put into the Epic Games Store (giving away games rather than implementing innovative platform features) shows that their motive is more to keep as much of the money from Fortnite microtransactions as possible rather than be innovative, it doesn’t cost platform holders 30% of sales to host game files. It’s a highly profitable business model, especially in closed ecosystems where it is intentionally difficult to install games via alternative means.

While I don’t like Epic Games, platform gatekeepers shouldn’t be able to extract a toll on software distribution purely because they develop the operating system, and especially not one as high as 30%. A competitive app store ecosystem would reduce platform fees as each store seeks to attract developers, who would in turn be incentivized to reduce prices to make their games competitively priced for consumers. For this to be possible, however, alternative App Store installation has to be possible, something Google is trying to make harder and something Apple prevents in most markets (charging an anticompetitive app installation fee in markets where it is forced to compete).

The system working as intended.

Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.

Unfortunately that also wouldn’t satisfy the requirements put in place by several operating system level age verification laws.

Another example of Israel illegally targeting journalists, but it still doesn’t legitimize his position as a Russian propagandist.

Fetterman is the perfect example of controlled opposition.

The Federation Checker lists incoming and outgoing defederation for inputted instances.

Might be a pain to use in bulk though.

Alternative to CBS.

Details: USF’s press service specified to Ukrainska Pravda that this refers to Russian losses in terms of those killed and wounded.

The figure includes wounded soldiers.

Alternative to CBS.

For me it does; moving the second slider to the bottom makes the color grey, and the third one to the bottom black.

The sliders appear to be for hue, saturation, and lightness.

First attempt resulted in a score of 45.82.

Edit: The trick seems to be to try to differentiate the colors better than just remembering “green” and a vague level of darkness; some colors seem to be easier for this than others.

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Realizing this only after gas prices have gone up 50 cents, but not after all the shit he did in his first term, attempt to steal the 2020 election, corruption of the Supreme Court, degradation of transgender rights, intervention in South and Central American elections, inhumane treatment of immigrants, assault on renewable energy, kidnapping of Maduro, support for murderers at ICE, and countless other degradations, also makes that voter a worthless piece of shit.

Shitposts aren’t a good fit here.

The far right criticizes NATO when they either don’t do “enough” by their standards (even though NATO is purely a defensive alliance), or “too much” by defending against Russian aggression.

Which Lemmy instance is “jumping in and out”?

They already shut down their news department; there isn’t anything of use left there.

The Launcher Manager app is also necessary to change the default launcher to the custom one you choose. Here’s a guide I wrote a while ago on my recommended configuration steps.

It should work on both Android TV and Google TV; they’re both Android, just different official launchers, so the best device to run is the one with the latest version of Android and the highest specs.