GoG has A TON of payment processors available to buyers, at least in Europe.
I know because I checked it yesterday following all this shit about payment processors pressuring game stores to stop carrying NSFW games, as I intend to start using a different payment processor as the one I usually use (as it turns out, one of those alternative payment processors is already integrated in the banking app of one of my bank accounts).
The difference in what can be done and the amount of work that needs to go into it between discrete digital electronics and just having a microcontroller or even microprocessor there is HUGE.
Also with microcontrollers and microprocessors most of the work moves from Electronics Engineering and circuit-design space to Software Engineering and software development, and the latter experts are easier to find plus the development cycle is way more friendly when it's just code which you can change and upload at will rather than physical circuits were simulation can only go so far before you have to actually create the physical hardware.
Even more entertaining, microcontrollers are so stupidly cheap (the most basic ones cost a few cents) that throwing in a microcontroller is almost always significantly cheaper than doing the control stuff with discrete electronics.
(For example a screen that size can be controlled by as ESP32 which if you embed it in your circuit yourself costs maybe $1 or $2, though that wouldn't be running Linux and programming it be much more low level, plus it's probably the cheapest you can go)
I actually got an EE degree back when we embedded circuits were just starting to be used so I didn't really get taught how to use them, then went for a career in software instead of electronics and came back to digital electronics years later and it's like night and day between the discrete digital electronics age and the everything is a computing device era.
Is it just me who feels that having one processing unit per display is a waste?
I mean, I get it why they did it (it's way easier to just have one SBC per-display, both on the hardware and the software sides), but if designing such a system I would still try to come up with a single board solution if only because waste gets on my nerves.
Also applies perfectly if he's a Working Class person and the viewer is Middle Class.
In the GDP calculations, the Official Inflation will "deflate" the GDP number calculated in today's money (the Nominal GDP) to produce the Official GDP number (the Real GDP), so if the Official Inflation is lower than reality, the difference in inflation pretty much "leaks" into a higher GDP number than it should be, or in other words, officially it looks like GDP growth.
You might have noticed just how much politicians celebrate that they've "made the Economy grow" using the GDP Growth figure.
Massaging the Inflation is an easy way to create GDP "Growth" in the official figures and is far more indirect and obscure than massaging the GDP figures themselves so less likely for those doing it to be caught and even if they do only a handful of people actually understand the true significance of what has been done.
It's more that Official Inflation is a lie and has been a lie for decades, and always in the direction of understating realiy.
Hence why two money values at different points in time which according to the Official Inflation are equivalent (i.e. one when inflation adjusted using the Official Inflation over the years in between results on the other) have very different purchasing powers, the longer the time distance between them the worst.
It actually makes total sense for politicians to do whatever it takes for Inflation to be understated:
We are being lied to and have been lied to for a long time about the Economic "success" in our Western countries, which is part of the reason why most people keep feeling poorer all the while politicians keep telling us GDP is growing (the other reasons being the increase in Inequality and, to a lesser extent, some of the actual growth was just population growth and per-capita there was no or negative growth).
At least in the US and UK (and I suspect most of the West), the official inflation has been understating the reality for years (just look at the massive difference between what a salary in the 60s could pay for and the very same inflation-adjusted salary today buys) so the real picture is probably significantly worse.
Unless things have changed massively in the UK in the last 5 years or so, in my actual experience you don't unless you make a profit.
The yearly baseline costs of opening and operating a Limited company in the UK are pretty low (less than £100 if I remember it correctly).
Ah, good news then.
Last I had heard (maybe a month ago), they were still exporting weapons to Israel.
If I understood you correctly, they blocked some, not all, in which case they're still exporting material subject to export controls (i.e. military equipment) to Israel.
Have they stopped exporting weapons to Israel?
I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.
Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.
Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.
I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.