BlackAura

We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?

As is tradition.

Yeah it's particularly weird in this case because Ubisoft and Valve both have publisher, developer, and distributor departments within each company. So the agreements they signed and put into place are probably somewhat complex.

Looking at the Steam page though it says

Developer: Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher: Ubisoft

So in this case it's whatever Ubisoft as a publisher signed / agreed to with Valve when they accepted their distribution terms. These are probably not the same boiler plate terms an indie dev would sign if self publishing.

Yeah but it's fairly simple.

You can generate Steam keys using the Steam developer tools. This allows a game key to be purchased on any storefront that supports selling them, which can then be activated on Steam.

The main requirement? You can't price those steam keys on a 3rd party store cheaper than on Steam itself.

For that, it means if the 3rd party store takes a smaller cut than Steam itself would take, the developer makes a bit more profit through almost no additional effort. Steam is the system users use to download and update the game, and cloud save syncing, and community guides, forums, workshop, etc.

The developer is, afaik, more than welcome to also sell a UPlay key if they partner with Ubisoft at any price point they want (regardless of the Steam price) because Ubisoft is the taking on the burden of distribution, etc.

The only price requirement Valve imposes is on selling Steam keys on 3rd party storefronts. Not UPlay keys. Not Xbox keys. Not Epic Store keys.

Edit: and I read the article, while albeit short (can't access the linked Bloomberg article sadly), they claim exactly that, that the version on UPlay was significantly cheaper than the version on Steam for essentially the same game. Valve was arguing that Rainbow Six Siege needs to change their pricing on UPlay or they would be delisted.

Not sure about Mac support but I suspect Outbound checks most / all of your boxes?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2681030/Outbound/

Honestly if you're truly passionate about it, just do it.

I graduated university in 2007 with a B Sc. in Software Engineering because I was passionate about it and still going strong. I've been through 3 layoffs over my career and just find something else in the industry.

I'll admit the AI stuff bothered me at first but I've seen how it's a force multiplier in the hands of certain people and I'm slowly warming up to it. I'm learning flux, k8s, and helm charts and whatnot for my home server and it's been a life saver. That's a bit more on the devops side of things but I think it will be a good skill to have.

I know people who went into the industry for money specifically when they were deciding what to take a lt school and those are the people who are more worried about layoffs and whatnot. I also know people who started CS or Engineering and moved out of it because they realized it wasn't for them. One particular person jumped over to history and sure they aren't earning as much but they sure seem happy with where their life has ended up.

I think if you're passionate and willing to learn there will always be some niche you'll be able to find.

Are there problems in the industry? Yes. Do I think we should have unionized when we had the chance? Absolutely. Does it seem like that are laying people off to do salary resets? 100%. Is AI growing at a crazy rate? Yes. Will all our jobs be taken over by AI in 7 years? Nope!

The industry might shrink. Some people will change career paths. Some people will find their niche. There will still be rockstars (both passion and ability) and there will still be people who are just doing it for the money.

P. S. Maybe you can pivot to Engineering? Your first year or two is usually a solid base set of broad engineering skills, like matrices, calculus, chemistry, statics/dynamics, fluids/solids/gasses, discrete math, etc. Then in your second year you start specializing (my U people could do Computer Eng if they wanted to do more hardware design and embedded stuff, or Software Eng if they preferred coding). Your parents might see more value in that than a CS degree (which is usually more theoretical stuff though lots of colleges and universities also teach systems design and coding). Based on your listed skills and interests I think you might get more value from it too.

Counterpoint: just look at the Air Canada crash that recently happened where a controller let a fire truck cross in the path of a landing aircraft.

Planes may have all this technology but that only involves what's happening in the air, not on the ground.

Now maybe all ground crew could have vehicles equipped with transponders and tracked as well, but there are also incidents of people randomly ending up on the runways / taxiways, or animals, or non airport vehicles.

What. New Adrian Tchaikovsky series dropped and I didn't notice!? Brb.

Cachy has, at least in my experience with a Zen 5 processor, it's own special Arch pacman repo with meta packages for various processor types. I believe for the most part mine uses Zen 4 packages.

Add your processor meta package and it adds the appropriate repo where packages have been custom built with feature flags / optimizations for that specific architecture of processors.

So it's a little closer to Gentoo or LFS in those regards, without you having to actually build every package from scratch.

So while yes any distro could do this, in practice a lot don't bother and only release basic i686/amd64/arm32/arm64 sets of packages. Whereas Cachy offers zen4-amd64 packages as an example, and I assume they offer various Intel architecture and other AMD architecture specific packages as well.

I'm not sure if you're making a joke that the rockets are the explosives or if they actually have rockets they launch that are like cluster munitions that drop a bunch of mines in to the water.

Yep. Back in the day all the MUD servers ran on Linux. I wanted to set up my own. I knew my cousin used it so I asked him about it.

He never answered my questions directly. But he did show me how to look up the answer to my question using man pages and/or search for info online.

That first install was so painful... My friend and I didn't know how to set up the network and it turns out the tulip driver wasn't installed by default. So we'd boot to Linux, try something to get the network working, write down the error message on a sheet of paper. Boot to windows to research the fix to the error message. Rinse and repeat until we finally got it working.

The funny thing I've been reading / seeing is that the paralympics are still ongoing.

The Olympic truce says no one will start a war during the 7 days before the Olympics and for 7 days after the Paralympics finish.

The US and Israel should be banned by the IOC from competing at the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (even though the host country is the US).

It won't happen though.

There's a concerted effort across many dataholders (at least /r/dataholders for sure) to make a full site wide backup across at least 3 copies across volunteers machines before it shuts down.

Alongside the backup team, another team is working on the best way to distribute to others after that (magnet links, archive.org, etc.).

https://minerva-archive.org/