The real issue is not whether we are going to be force-fed this features or not, but the fact that a foundation with limited resources is going to spend any sizable amount of them developing a solution its users are not interested in.
Waiting for Ladybird at this point.
I play ONLY non-Steam since August and had no problems by using Heroic Launcher.
Wow, that's dark! Not at all the same in Italy.
And thanks for the links in French! I am studying it and I just finished Clair Obscur in French, so I need more input.
Yes, it is obviously racism. But I also think that racism is endemic in simple societies.
I am watching Pluribus and I can recognize in that situation exactly the kind of feeling I hate when walking around Copenhagen as someone who organizes weekly events and participates in his industry's community events: the continuous way-higher-than-zero chance to meet and be recognized, as it happens in a small town.
Commenting this feeling on a day trip to Aarhus (even smaller than CPH and therefore even worse for me), I was answered by the Dane who accompanied me: "yes, but that is good, to have people checking on each other, so that bad behaviors are discouraged".
Et voilà, le facho est né.
The system as you describe it sounds a lot like the Italian one. That said, I just started studying French at the local Institut Francais and I must say that in general French people seem to take A LOT of things more seriously than the Italians do, for no good reason in my first instance opinion.
Can you expand on what you mean about the schooling?
As a non-Dane living in Denmark since 5 years, and having lived in Sweden before that for 9, I can tell you the idea that I am forming due to the data at hand and anecdotal but first-hand experience:
what from abroad, including within the EU, is seen as the splendid example of Scandinavian society is mostly constructed on small, ethnically and culturally uniform, isolated populations, in which social control is actually seen as natural (like in a small town).
Passing a law in Denmark or Sweden is nothing like having the same iter happen in France or Italy, due to these factors, and justice systems are kept dangerously simple, with no special court for minors in at least civil cases in Sweden and no possibility of one-sided appraisals.
This realities, in the last years, have met with a surge in migration from immigration basins such as Germany, France and Italy, in addition to the influx of people who took the chance of the limited "good gestures" towards the populations of Syria and Afghanistan.
Once you touch those stability factors, the whole thing crumbles, reason why you have Malmö becoming a hellhole and Sweden a narcostate.
From Denmark, a much smaller market than Sweden, gangs such as the Black Cobra were exported across the bridge, only to come biting back in recent years.
The parties that call themselves socialist here in Denmark completely adopted the agenda and the talking points of what elsewhere is called Far Right, which is something I see not as a corruption but as a logic consequence of the above.
You have to think that 10 years ago in Sweden and again when I moved to Copenhagen, I was met with the exchange: "Oh you should move to this area of the city!" "Why, is it a place you recommend?" "Don't know, but those from your country all move there"
, which is something that horrifies me.
In the same way the big titles in the newspapers about the latest local elections in Copenhagen were on the motif of "Danes always less likely to vote at local elections, which means foreigners will represent a huge portion of the electorate!"
Lately, in Denmark, Hummelgaard, Ministry of Justice, got probably bought up by Palantir, which is why the police uses Gotham and he pushes for a backdoor in encrypted communication .
But apart from that, 5 years ago Fredriksen was attempting her own Madagascar Plan and now she applauds the (actually failed) one deployed in Albania by Meloni, so no need for big tech money to let them talk that shit.
And they are the good ones (I mean, not really, but still better than the actual Right.
Should I call this racism? Maybe, but it would not help to see things clearer.
tl;dr Scandinavia is a simple place. Reality hit with complexity and they panicked.
No explanation as to why.
The rise after 2020 could have been a by-product of the pandemic, but the later rise in 2024 is not explained in the article.
Any French who could shed some light?
Calibre is a program for Windows/Linux. To be able to export books (and deDRM them) there are different plugins, but I never heard about one for Google Play Books.
Cannot say. I had a very old Kindle and all my books on device.
I deleted my Amazon account last month. No more Goodreads and IMDb is just another plus.
Extracted my ebooks from my Kindle with Calibre, so I am fine.
Feeling good and less targeted and bombarded.
I loved the game.
I understand the use that was made did not in the least affect the final product.
I don't think they should have a disclaimer on Steam.
I think they screwed up big time if the indie game awards rules could have been interpreted as requiring no use of AI at any stage in production.
Also, I dont really understand the point of saying it afterwards and I fear that may in itself mean that they are promoting the use of AI in game dev.
What I think is very good is that people are (over?)reacting like this: I would like to have devs perceiving the use of AI as fucking poison.