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Any service requires investment, though. What pays Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.?

I'd imagine it's a way to sift normal users that might turn into power users, so they stay in Google's controlled environment. Or, since apparently Google can modify programs in the Play Store if they so desire, maybe it's a way to increase the chance the user will keep using approved backdoors/tojans/spywares. Either way, I can't recommend enough for people to use vanilla phones, and have some cheap, second hand one just for stuff you can't use without Google Play.

Afaik, it does work as a country, even if it's not formally one.

Not familiar with any, but in case the sticker creation system from Signal behaves like Telegram or Whatsapp, it is fairly simple to do it, specially stactic ones. Just convert the image to be within the expected canvas size (up to 512px on Telegram; don`t remember on Whatsapp) and in a format it accepts (png and webp usually do the trick). For animated stickers, it usually is a bit more cumbersome / complicated.

Can't give precise numbers, but at least that I can notice, despite greatly filtering what I check, there's enough stuff to make running out of stuff to check rather unlikely. Besides, as I started using RSS feeds a lot recently, mainly for federated platforms (not just Lemmy ones), and the reader I use can hide posts marked as read, it's being a struggle to lower the number of posts to read in comparison to the sum of posts automatically pulled during the set up of each link.

An AI is as good as its sources, and skimming through the domains from the posts, quite a few of those don't seem like very reliable ones.

Maybe take strolls on a local park or other scenic places, and take inspiration from what you see? Alternatively, maybe make things like short comics and fanarts?

Also, not directly related to your question, but keep your older doodles and drawings. Even if future you comes to find them ugly, it would still show you how much you changed.

Doesn't appear to have a RSS feed either, and doesn't seem like Nitter supports it. 😔

Or should be made available

Could, then, people here in the comments bring FOSS games from other sources too?

Just checked it.

For the empty spaces in the carousel, you could use this:

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gaming.amazon.com##a[href*="platform_specific_tag/"]:upward(li[class="grid-carousel__slide"])

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And the platform_specific_tag is what appears in their links when you open their pages and that, from what I can observe, is specific to where they activate in.

For example, in Jurassic World Evolution and Electrician Simulator, the tag is the epic/ part of the link.

For Overcooked 2 and The Outer Worlds, it's gog/.

And though it should work without the /, maybe better keep it, as the lack thereof may trigger false positives, like if Legacy of Kain for GOG is available, but you block legacy results in case you want nothing from Legacy Games, you won't see Legacy of Kain due to its name appearing in the link.

I usually go directly to https://gaming.amazon.com/home?filter=Game so I'll need to check the all tab too.

Maybe this?

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gaming.amazon.com##a[href*="platform_specific_tag/"]:upward(div[class="tw-block"])

It's the filter that is the least dependent on div blocks' structure that I can think, and unless Amazon changes either (or both) their links format and how they list stuff, at most I think you'd need to change the tw-block part every once in a while, as such bigger sites seem to change the divs' names some times.