I'm glad for the game devs but this article's reporting is really confusing. 226% increase on what? They haven't released a game recently before this. Of course you're going to make money right after you release something new. A better comparison would be against the last quarter that they released a new game.

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  • Why though? I genuinely don't know what the use case is here. If you have a bookshelf it already has your books on it, you could take a photo of that. If you wanted a list of book recommendations, a text list would be more useful.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    One big thing you need to think about is accessibility. This is something that came up in a conversation with a local representative in the UK - for children in public schools it is a requirements that any technology have good accessibility and not leave anyone behind. And accessibility tools on linux are, suffice to say, not great. Especially when compared with those on other closed systems. My local government ended up going with iPads for kids in schools, and the accessibility tooling on these was a factor in that choice.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Indie games are good, but if privacy is a concern be careful of any game developed in a big engine like unity. My firewall pings a warning every time I launch a unity game because they all send analytics data back to unity. If it's single player and you block all outgoing connections by default, you're fine though.

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