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Cake day: November 5th, 2023

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  • Just saying: If you need a step for step tutorial to make something available worldwide, you shouldn’t.

    There is a reason why an apprenticeship for sysAdmin (not even going into software engeneering) is 3 years of school and work full time.

    Also, as someone who has actually gone into this kinda deep, it is simply not feasable to actively maintain your system for CVEs, hardware and software and still work AND have a social life.

    Also by hosting a social media site (its a peer after all) you need to abide by all kind of regulatory shit the moment you make it available for others to post there.




  • market for a low specs/low price handheld for 2D retro-style games

    Its called an android emulator.

    Those who have the money would rather go for a real retro console

    Those who don’t probably do not have the money to buy all those cartridges with only 1 game on them, and will just use their phone or pick up a cheap android tablet

    And for the retro-modern niche there are emulator handhelds for very cheap

    So, basically the target audience is people who:

    • don’t have the money to buy a real retro console + games
    • have a problem with emulating/ripping the games themselves
    • want to pay full price for retro games (even if you take the price for steam, they are going to cost more due to the hardware
    • don’t want any QoL like with emulator handhelds







  • That is another situation

    Amazon is a seller. Steam is (aside from selling) a service provider with their workshop, forum, etc

    While it would be way better if those were all in a different tier for devs, so for example they can select to get less of a share for those features, what they are basically doing is sidestepping a provider

    Or in the case of photography:

    You go to a Photo shop and lend their camera equipment and services for free, but they take a 20% cut for every copy of that picture sold.

    If you buy a picture, you can download it indefinitely and get some services like changing the color grading on the website. The photo shop hosts the picture for free and only makes a profit through selling licenses. The owner also has an option to get infinite licenses for these services for free.

    What youre allowed to do is host the picture on your own, pay your own cloud provider, and sell the picture that way.

    What youre not allowed to do is generate infinite licenses for free and sell them without ever paying the photo shop for their services, while still using them.