He build the company for years, and made the brand to everything it is now. "Luck once" is a weird POV

The game being successful wasn't luck but it being as successful as it was definately was. Block based games had existed for years before minecraft, I don't think there was any reason to believe that this one in particular was going to explode in 2010.

I don’t know much about Notch so I have no comment on them specifically, but “building the company and brand for years” can still count as “luck once”. Once you strike gold and make it big, you have a lot of leeway for mistakes, it becomes harder to fail. Case in point, Zuckerberg.

Switzerland is doing that quite a while now.

https://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/landline-subscription...

Yes. Without any issues still.

Gladly.

There was a time window 2 years ago where it appeared that I need an actual phone number to do my taxes, but even that was replaced with something more universal.

Strong =! Good

Do people outside of Europe do not understand how Germany is just a small fraction of Europe.

While true, it influences a lot in the EU

I don't think they influence more than France does. But I don't know, I live in Europe but don't care for the EU

If you live in Europe you should care for the EU: not only it's the reason why there hasn't been a war for 80+ years, but if we can have a voice on the international stage it's because we are united instead of 27 small independent countries.

Don’t feel bad! The EU cares about you as much as you care about the EU.

Do you live within the EU, or in europe?

Thankfully, not in the technology area. Eg. we in the post-soviet EU block are well beyond using fax, and stuff like that, ... :)

People in Texas are in the US, right?

I use victron devices and a litime battery + an esp32 of your choice and some LLM magic to read and relay data from Bluetooth to web.

For both victron and litime plenty of examples exist, including home assistant integrations.

I have a lot to hide from your government if that was the question

You don't have to install my government's software.

To be fair that's the exact narrative European media seems to draw. Not sure how you could see anything else in this shitshow

As an European, the political situation in US has never seemed reasonable to me, and been on a mostly downhill slope for a long time. It has certainly gotten way way worse with the current administration though.

My relatives in Malaysia say it went from a slight downhill slope to a cliff and now we're in free fall.

The bottom has to be somewhere...

This. Definitely not the moment you voted the same bullshit AGAIN expecting anything else than the end of the US as we all know it.

I don't know about the US internal propaganda, but international media seems pretty certain on this war crime