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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(credit_card_company)

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

No thanks. It’s not for me.

What are the alternatives to Visa/Mastercard?

Some surely know, they just don’t care.

Absolutely. I’d switch to other payment methods that aren’t those, if you can.

Rules for thee…

I’ve stopped caring about anything this waste of carbon dioxide says.

“I don’t want to release the server portion of the games my studios make.”

Yes, we know.

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

This is why it is critical to contain memetic hazards. Has the Foundation taught us nothing?

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?

Code reviews take up a lot of time, and if I know a lot of code in a review is AI generated I feel like I’m obliged to go through it with greater rigour, making it take up more time. LLM code is unaware of fundamental things such as quirks due to tech debt and existing conventions. It’s not great.

My four year old low-end test device running Android had its assistant switched out from Google Assistant to Gemini. I was very surprised since I’d assumed that the vendor had stopped supporting it since it was so cheap, but it updated anyway.

Why are you being downvoted for this? In stock devices the user has no way to even start looking at what is being run. All you can do is trust the manufacturer.

Some cheese on top of that and you have a feast.

Everyone who lives here plays video games all day and our healthcare isn’t even completely free, the burden is just shared by nationalization. Video games are such a menace to society!

VPNs are already illegal in China!

This is where you’d normally go “there must be a better way…”

Stellar Blade is a good game.

Also worth mentioning that I learned from this video that Shift Up removed the Playstation region lock that caused the Helldivers 2 controversy universally, so they get kudos from me.