There are more things to a stable and sustainable society than economy.
With many European countries doing budget cuts to education, social security, healthcare etc many people are dissatisfied with their goverments. This can make it very hard to justify spending said budget on migrants or programs with aim to integrating migrants to the society.
Honestly all these tech layoffs could really come bite back publishers and the big tech in the near future.
Theres a lot new talent for competitors to snatch and fraction of these developers might even form up new studios to make the next big thing.
Hoarder would be a more fitting term but yeah one can amass quite a collection of games fairly cheap with Humble Bundles and sorts. Back in the day Humble bundle even had "competitor" or two providing different sets of games.
Haven't bothered with Epic Games launcher myself though got more than enough games on steam and gog that haven't even tried yet.
It's sort of minimalistic / lightweight alternative for IntellJ. Red Hat is working on the extension(s) which have worked fine for me at least for the past few years and it gets updates regularly.
I use VSCode for C++, C#, Java, Python and for things like docker-files, html etc. IntelJ is fine but a bit bloated in comparison with its menus, sub-menus, sub-sub-menus and built in unnecessary extra features for those just looking for code editor.
VSCode workflow with Java is mainly using it to write code, run tests, configure maven/gradle/docker/etc rest is more or less using CLI and Command palette.
VSCode is also fairly popular among Java developers.
There's also Eclipse Theia Blueprint which is basically a open source clone of VSCode.
Honestly they've been on a steady decline in my eyes at least. With each and every new entry they're becoming more and more like the rest of the Triple-A studios.
Sure many of their games are still decent fun if you can ignore:
Personally I just can't as mere existence of these thigns ruins my trust towards these developers/publishers.
They're still microtransactions in a full priced game which can break the trust between player and the developers/publishers.
Worst ones are probably the portcrystals and metamorphsis ones which both solve artificial problems created by the developers.
Yeah thats an easy pass for now
Being able to contribute to a community can feel very rewarding even when you get little to no compensation for it. Many open source contributors know it all too well that their contributions can and will be used by big tech to make even more money.
Hopefully EU and US regulators will stomp that site to the ground as selling user generated data for AI companies sounds like something most people on Reddit did not sign in to.
This sounds very amateurish from Plasmas part as allowing themes to run bash scripts sounds like a very bad idea no matter how you look at it.
Themes should probably have something like their own domain specific language (DSL) that can be fed to the "theme engine"(?) which will make the requested changes. If additional functionality is needed it should be provided through separate modules/plugins or something.
While Meta might have ulterior motives for fediverse integration this might also be just one way to comply with Europes new DMA regulation.