Not a game per se, but a setting I'd like to be explored: may it be in film, literature or gaming:
A Member of a civilization near the heat death of the universe:
Live has flourished throughout the universe for the last 100 Billions of years, but the only things that are inevitable are taxes and the heat death. How do you cope with the dying of everything? Gain energy by evaporating stars near a galaxy size black hole. Embrace the infinite darkness or join a cult that exits the universe through a ring-singularity into a new big bang.
Absolutely agree, this was a red line for me as well. Coming with pre-installed crapware is one thing, but installing it during a security update is just malicious. I switched to a Google Pixel 4a with Calyx OS around a year ago and never regretted it even once. I mean -- what are they thinking about their userbase? They didn't just lose a customer they've gained an enemy.
This is so sad... I cannot even begin to contemplate. When I was young blogging was something exciting and new. You could share your thoughts and interests with complete strangers and make connections to people you didn't even know -- albeit not very deep ones. Never once was it about status or signalling -- I mean surely there were people for whom this was important, but they were playing their status games with each other and didn't bother the people that wouldn't care about such nonsense.
It is a horrifying notion that you are only valued based on the output of your blog / FB / twitter account. I used to think that for every cultural movement there is a counter-movement that tries to invert the values of a previous generation. Are there people in your circle that explicitly reject this notion of self commodification and exhibitionism?
>> How do you know who is a legitimate dev and who is a scammer posing as a legitimate dev
If you cannot discern the two you shouldn't offer a service that claims it can... And if you do nevertheless, the operators of the service should at least acknowledge that errors happen and offer the possibility of a recourse
Nice. Very thorough article, that touches more concepts of functional programming than just Y like tail recursion.
For someone who never had contact with functional programming, the concept of the Y combinator can seem a bit... strange. But trying to figure out what it is and does can be a real eye opener.