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[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So, first of all:

One key issue is “seat spinning,” where bots initiate the booking process but do not complete payment - by hoarding inventory temporarily, they reduce availability and may create a false perception of scarcity, which can influence pricing algorithms.

Pretty sure any "reputable" flight company is already doing that. I am not sure any consumer can really get clear evidence though. They don't need bots for this, they just tell their booking portal to lie.

Moving on:

In some cases, bots resell the tickets they secure through “ticket scalping,” pushing genuine customers toward inflated prices or unavailable flights.

Reselling means people book flights via what, eBay? Is there a market for reselling flight tickets? Depending on the country involved, destination and so on these bookings require you to leave a name or even passport details.

I've stopped reading after this paragraph. Is this just an AI written article of made up issues?

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

OK. I cannot decipher from those 3 pixels how cheap those tickets allegedly are.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 13 hours ago

Congrats, dumbest take you could have on this.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Interesting choice to give them boobs. Not that the average reader cares that its only female mosquitoes that bite.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 day ago

It's fine to ask for money. Here I think it is just not clear why this would warrant a subscription model.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, not sure how that is confusing.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

Fuck yes, Descent 2 was even better, with your small helper robot and even more cool weapons/rockets.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is there any server component to it, other than serving updates? That would justify a subscription model, but I also cannot see any need for it for something like this.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you on your phone while shitting?

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Not sure on older Android versions but newer ones would show a small dot for the notification overflow.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not super excited for this show, but I will still give it a chance!

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/40654941

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32962057

Short but cute game, was neat to see the video at the end showcasing the steps the developers went through to create it.

 

I've been thinking about organising my growing library a bit, mostly to mark games I consider as completed.

But also to mark games I played but lost interest in, or games I've finished together with my kids instead of myself alone.

I started doing that in Steam but as I added games via GOG or Epic Games store, or emulators, Steam and would lose their tags (or rather their belonging to a collection) as soon as I uninstalled them.

Also if as a bonus the system could suggest new games based on what I finished or maybe based on ratings I give, that would be nice but not necessary.

Is there any straightforward solution to use? Either general something device-independent or specifically on the Steamdeck locally. Can also selfhost software if there is anything good.

How are you all doing that?

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