Andromeda was not well received but the Mako equivalent in that game was pretty good.

The real answer:

Gainful employment

Once that’s taken away, who knows?

I guess it’s a base 32 string instead of a 32 char string?

Trump and his cronies have been doing their level best to go to war with Iran since just first administration. This isn’t news.

Maybe there’s someone he’s trying to impress with the truck. Isn’t that why guys drive trucks?

Hope it’s good, I’ve played a few games that claimed to have controller support and it was bad… had to keep the mouse handy to do certain things.

I’m guess you have a fully staffed infrastructure team team, so the reason that has yet to be explained is that they want to downsize that team.

We use cloud services because we have never had a fully staffed infrastructure team.

I think there’s something in the text that says you have to be powerful enough to utilize it which is why it is somewhat tempting for characters like Gandalf. Even though it would also corrupt him.

Those companies are just begging to be nationalized.

Progressive Web Apps, it’s just a website that masquerades as an app and can do most of the same things.

All you have to do is link a manifest file in your root HTML page and Android users will be prompted to “Install the app” when they visit the site.

You get an icon on the home screen, a full screen app view, and it can handle links like other apps. Your manifest can request permissions like location, etc.

I guess some companies will always want a Play Store presence, but it’s not really necessary for most apps.

Not sure why you’d even need an app in Play in 2025, PWA support on Android is great.

I wanted to play this at some point but the prices never really came down on Steam enough.

Can confirm that most of what I do on a daily basis I learned on Pluralsight.

Hard to say whether I would have been able to get as much out of Pluralsight without a college education though.

They need to offer low interest rates for construction loans, for first time home buyers only. That would solve the housing crisis. Anything else would make inflation worse, or wouldn’t address the housing supply issues.

Wow, looks like exactly what I need! I’ll give it a try, thanks!

Upgrade tool says my hardware isn’t supported, seems like I can enable TPM on my motherboard but it doesn’t work right for some reason I think I managed to install Windows 10 without secure boot or something, not sure if those two are even related. I was thinking maybe I’d have to reinstall windows 10 with those modules enabled in order to upgrade to windows 11… Has anyone else encountered something similar?

In the US I’d be happy if they even fined companies for this. The current administration doesn’t want to hold corporations accountable at all, unless it’s for “DEI” practices. Whenever I see news like this it makes me want to move to the EU.

I agree. I’d like to see some separation between the car manufacturer and the software. Any computers in the car should support whatever operating system you want to put on it. Things like controlling the car’s functions would just be device drivers. If the car company also wants to get into the SaaS business, fine, but you shouldn’t be required to pay for that software to operate the vehicle.

I’m on board with it if people want to change the terminology around these things, but it seems like the core of what the author is discussing is the valuation of these companies and potential bubbles.

I think it makes sense that Disney and Amazon and Netflix who are able to make money through more of a SaaS-like model would have a higher valuation than a car company that has to produce a new car for every unit sold. Maybe there’s a recent example of an over-valued car company we can think of?

Consider that an auto mechanic and a software engineer can have a similar problem-solving skill set, and could both be very intelligent. Why then does an auto mechanic make so much less money? It’s partly because of the economies of scale involved with software. The owner of the software company can sell the software to thousands of clients without having to pay the software engineer to build the software thousands of times. The owner of the auto shop still has to pay the mechanic to perform every job every time and get paid for it.

So while I agree that Disney and Netflix maybe aren’t “Tech” companies, it seems to me the real problem the author is grappling with is whether they should be valued similar to tech companies. So I guess the question becomes, are “tech” companies highly valued because they are expected to make some huge technological leap that shakes up industries, or is it because of the economies of scale inherent in the SaaS-like business model?

This doesn’t change the fact that SaaS is lucrative because unlike producing hardware, you can add users/subscribers without paying to produce additional units.