It’s normal if you accept it. You do not have to accept it. There’s also a good chance that it’s illegal in Spotify’s case, if not in the US then likely in Europe.

It’s not open source, unavailable on non-apple platforms, and (ironically) needs something like Plex for remote playback.

Is there an English language focused instance?

Many newer games require it and run great, Star Wars Outlaws is the first one that comes to mind.

Actually I take it all back, the support for push notifications isn’t in Lemmy itself yet. It’s not practically usable for you.

Replies, mentions and messages, afaik. Not sure what other kind of notifications you’d be expecting.

Thunder has experimental support for it. You’ll also need a unifiedpush distributor installed. F-Droid has a good explainer on UnifiedPush at https://f-droid.org/2022/12/18/unifiedpush.html

Click on “Hello, Social Web 👋🏼” it’s actually a link to a blog post even if it just looks like part of the landing page.

TL;DR: Bridgy Fed is forming a non-profit entity to carry it forwards.

It’s literally common practice to refer to the person who wrote some code as the author of it.

The protected title for Medical Doctors is Doctor of Medicine. I can get a PHd in Software Engineering and call myself Doctor.

There are separate titles for accredited engineers in the US and UK. If anyone cared enough they’d already be using them. The fact is, vanishingly few software engineers work on high risk (to human life) projects. Versus, for example, structural engineers doing it daily.

It’s not. https://www.engc.org.uk/glossary-faqs/frequently-asked-questions/status-of-engineers/

I don’t understand the logistics of possessing 1800 books. That is so many books. Did you live in a library?

Valve can sell devices at a loss and make it up in game sales. None of the current handheld makers have been able to compete on price as a result. I don’t expect that to change any time soon.

They’re not trying to iterate improvements, I would put money on them presenting an overhauled dedicated gamepad interface in the next 18 months. That’s still glacial speed, but that’s what happens when you’re a nearly 50 year old company of that size.

Tiktok is a basic human right? Fuck sake what are you like.

I’d say HDMI CEC is the main sign. Why would a VR headset have that when the Steamdeck/dock didn’t?

Using the domain name steampowered.com will finally make sense 20 years later.

That’s a larger equation, and it sounds like it totally makes sense for you. I’ve been working remote to SF for 15 years and made the same choice you did. That experience has also let me see that the comp to effort ratio there is very very good.