Because Valve would have to pay out 70% the value of the vouchers to developers in game redemptions; the break even point would therefore need to account for that amount being subtracted first (i.e. for $900 including a $200 voucher, $760).

At that point, Valve would likely have higher sales if they didn’t include the voucher and reduced the price by the 70% in voucher value it would have cost them otherwise.

but then offer a $100 - $200 Steam voucher along with it?

Then the same thing would occur—buyers not interested in using Steam would sell the vouchers or the accounts those vouchers are tied to.

App stores shouldn’t have to register at all. If nothing is done about Google’s plans to require developer registration to release apps, then their monopoly will be stronger than ever.

Including transgender suicides fueled by their failure to protect transgender rights?

Not supporting violations of international law is a pretty good option.

Or BBQ_DISCOVERY_CARD?

At least with Proton VPN, it seems that some VPN servers are blocked while others aren’t. Trying with one server worked, while another resulted in a 403 Forbidden error.

Seems like the solution is to just change VPN servers until you find one with an IP that isn’t blocked. Otherwise, the Torrentio configuration page shows the following message, and Torrentio itself can’t be used in Stremio:

If you use Torrentio with Stremio, Torrentio blocks VPNs, though I don’t know why a VPN block would be impacting one platform but not another.

According to this page, the rule in Belgium depends on whether the “best by date” is a DDM (best by) or DLC (use until). If the date is a DLC, then they can’t legally sell it after that date.

DLC products are specifically listed as being refrigerated, so if the beer isn’t refrigerated I would assume its date would be a DDM.

If it means anything, the negativity on that post seems to be coming from just the OP and the asshole replying in the comments.

Blorp might not be perfect, but no Lemmy app is, and that’s what feature requests and bug reports are for. Thanks for all the effort you put into Blorp! 👍

Trump’s actions in Venezuela and Iran clearly demonstrate that he doesn’t care about peace in the slightest.

In Ukraine, Trump doesn’t want peace, he wants whatever outcome will line his pockets the most.

I don’t think Blorp supports in-app instance blocking (they’re not listed on the in-app blocklist either); you’d have to go to Piefed.ca directly to do it.

Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.

Might be worth adding the state name to the headline in cases where it’s not included already for clarity in a c/usa community. (i.e. “what lawmakers” -> “what Indiana lawmakers”)

Of course they would, because U.S. security guarantees under Trump are meaningless, and such a peace deal would let Russia keep all the land and resources they’ve stolen from Ukraine.

Apparently gross register tonnage is exclusively a unit of volume, used in measuring ship capacity.

Overall, I’d say that most of the downvotes are people disagreeing with the article’s core criticism of Mozilla’s AI language translation using scraped content; then people see the excessive crossposts and assume you’re a spammer and mass-downvote them.

Given that !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the second largest Lemmy community, it’s clear from the start that piracy-bashing articles are going to have mixed reception at the best of times. In addition, the article places an undue emphasis on Mozilla’s practices rather than the industry as a whole.

Ultimately, the article should have been half as long and give readers a clear solution at the end, such as instead using a Firefox fork to make opt-out the default. While not likely to be as effective as an AI trained with non-permissive license content, such an explanation at the end could also have recommend an open source translation AI extension trained solely with permissive license content.

In the future, perhaps try posting your article once in the most popular relevant community, and if people respond well, then crosspost it a maximum of two or three times (3-4 posts total). More than that and people will think you’re spamming.

Lemmy does need to get better about being welcoming to newcomers, so apologies for the rough start; if you have any questions, feel free to send me a message. 👍

Hopefully after kicking out the 30 Hungary-equivalent states that would obstruct any and all progressive policies.

Be more selective with your crossposting in the future or people will downvote you for spamming.