The demoscene is still going strong and attracts young blood. Check out the Revision events: https://youtu.be/EJ7KAD0NyGw

I watched the Video but besides the "king entering the city ceremony" it didn't show what it makes it unique compared to other city states around the world.

It's a city state without the state as it isn't internationally recognised.

The City of London is part of Greater London http://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/section/2 residents & businesses are subject to the same laws & taxes as the rest of England.

well, arguably there are fewer than 5 city states in the world.

Telekom and Microsoft partnered together a long time ago to fix this problem but it turns out in european public comunal and state procurement projects that cloud offerings play a very insignificant role since its largely all on-prem IT projects and so that partnership was closed.

I'm just writing this because a lot of comments are getting the wrong idea from this and causing some weird mix of hysteria and europhoby. In the grand scheme of things, there is no money lost for Azure and AWS, the potential of the once in a full moon cloud projects from public european institutions wouldn't even amount to something that would be described as pocket chance.

There is no tidal wave, Telekom partnered a long time ago with Microsoft for an EU only azure offering and it was sacked quickly because the demand from public procurements where too low since those largely require on-prem solutions.

This is about getting qualified in comunal/state procurement and not general public business.

As far as I understand the reasoning is that the accepting of a bid of on of the companies in not allowed because they don't comply with the GDPR law. Although it was filed by a competing company it theoretically would mean according to this judge cloud hosting is not in line with GDPR. In that line, wether you are a governmental organisation or company doesn't matter if they decide to enforce it as such.

There is no tit for tat, we european citizens don't want our personal data to be accessible to the US government and their respective secret agencies.

The US government will not back up from their policy and so we do neither but since we otherwise enjoy a great partnership and alliance, we take this issue pretty "dry and emotionless", trust me, there are no hard feelings or ill intentions.

Not a problem with consumer facing services but usually problematic with comunal and state related projects that store personal data.

It’s used in the Ford EV line: https://youtu.be/agpDIZmGRTw

Ford isn't necessarily a paragon of usability

This is incorrect since the onboard HDMI output can be used for that as well (or a secondary GPU).

It’s not essential but this is one of Unity’s revenue sources, so they will advertise it . In fact, one key aspect to finding success (disclosure: I am an ex Unity AssetStore publisher) in the AssetStore is to persuade buyers in thinking your asset is essential for making their project come true. It’s all about selling shovels and dreams.