The thing with products like games, textbooks, movies etc is that a large part of the cost is the design. This means that while you can make the products cheap and still cover the cost of manufacturing, you won’t make back the money from the design if your margin is very low. This gives manufacturers the ability to sell the same product in differently wealthy markets while still making a profit.

If you now take the product from a cheaper market and sell it to more wealthy consumers at lower price than they usually pay, you aren’t actually selling at a better price because you are providing a better service. You are selling at a better price because you’re breaking the manufacturer’s business model.

This isn’t something that can permanently work because either A: the manufacturer doesn’t get enough money to cover the design, can lead to bankruptcy or change of business model ©, B: through regulations this is prohibited or C: The manufacturer raises the price in the regions your buying from, breaking your business model and screwing over the people who can no longer afford it there.

Of course this depends on the scale you’re acting in, but in theory preventing you from doing so would bring more equality between richer and poorer nations

Nintendo is selling them for cheaper in Southeast Asia because people there have less money. They could sell them for less in the US as well, but people are able to afford the prices there so capitalism dictates that the price is higher. What Amazon and the retailers are doing undercuts this strategy, which in theory means that Nintendo should raise their prices in Southeast Asia to make their business model work, making the games inaccessible to consumers living there. In classic liberalism this is the logical way things should be, in neoliberalism the state should intervene.

According to Meta it runs on their private servers

And then all the history books will be “Trump History” so that everyone can finally learn the history as Trump sees it

I was talking about written reviews, not just a like/dislike (star) system

Where are you getting 0.1%? According to Steam Hardware Survey Linux is over 2% of Steam Users. This puts Linux way ahead of Mac which supported by Epic

Steam is, in my opinion, way better for the user (even if it may be worse for the developer).

Epic lacks features that are important to me like reviews, the ability to view your library in a browser, warnings about DRM, Linux support, a hole bunch of features to discover games, a workshop, big picture mode.

Additionally, in my experience at least, their official launcher under Windows is a buggy mess compared to steam.

1. Alt account is probably the way to go
2. A commonly used image host is blocked in a bunch of countries (https://files.catbox.moe) check if you can open this site
3. They are separate communities, kinda like politics and politics2 on Reddit. They don’t aggregate jet but that option is WIP. My tip is go with communities not on Lemmy.ml and hexbear.net due to some questionable moderation in a bunch of communities on those

I’d like to know if this is just a firmware update or unfixable, but sadly this seems just an ad rather than news

kbin has been discontinued but there is a fork called mbin, piefed and loops are missing and some very small projects, also bridgyfed isn’t there but it’s still a pretty good overview

Yes, and there are already lots of different ones that, at least partially, work together:

Don’t know if there is something LinkedIn like though

Email client or provider? For client I’d go with thunderbird for provider mailbox.org or Tuta, or maybe proton (but mainly the first two).

As the other comment mentioned, this isn’t the community, I’d check out !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (asklemmy also may not be the right community, it’s explicitly not a support community)

Don’t forget the !

!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

I noticed it doesn’t work with the standard Lemmy UI, but photon and voyager seem to be working. No Idea what’s going on, but the video is just the trailer, so you can just watch it on epics site

While it is a bit less straightforward, you can just add the specific instance as a guest and then browse local

I think the main problem is they don’t want to maintain multiple accounts

Just FYI your spoiler ain’t working. I think you need to need to remove the : after spoiler and put a new line after reality

A quick browse through recent comments and posts by these accounts

do something about those of us being stalked by these lunatics that get off on going through people’s post history

Have you considered that you may be stupid?

Common Valve W

AFAIK it used to exist but was removed to avoid recreating stuff like karma farming and minimum karma limits. But it would be pretty easy to make a bash script that manually calculates the karma score