Reminder that 25% of the cost of construction is government regulation and taxes, at least.
Building a deck for a client in the city, we don't even have a permit yet and LOCAL regulations have resulted in ~5% increase in the cost of the build (planned for, but just a reminder that you don't hate bureaucracy and "what's one more regulation going to hurt" legislators enough.)
Now that we know -- with a high level of certainty -- that Drew DeVault is (at least one of) the author(s) of the "Stallman Report"... this comment from DeVault, yesterday, is particularly amusing:
"I've read most of the report" ... "the depth of this report is astonishing". 🤣
I've been working on a website for my game studio. The layout was created via ChatGPT (it's really great at generating HTML5 templates without the modern web bloat).
It was hard to write the about page because I didn't want to be unprofessional and bash other studios, but I wanted to make my point across that we will NEVER include any DRM, telemetry, or live service crap in our games.