I mean it’s great that a bunch of shitheads were removed from office but we haven’t seen the results yet. It’s not like democrats haven’t shit away their opportunities to actually fix things before. There’s a great deal of precedent for us to be worried about.
Again. The exact same thing Steam did.
But steam got in on the ground floor, by the time the others got into the game it was too late because steam offered enough QOL stuff to blow them out of the water. There was no competition. No one wants to install 15 fucking launchers just because every company wants to take on steam. If anyone wants to get in now with a launcher and compete with steam they have to fill a niche that steam isn’t. Like GOGs DRM free games. Or just sell from their own site without the launcher BS. Sure they won’t get the massive advertising bonus or other QOL benefits that comes with being on steams storefront but it’s an option if they’re so worried that they won’t get their money’s worth being on there.
Unlike Steam’s actual exclusive deals they stuck with publishers to force Steam as DRM. Also preventing it being sold on other online distribution services (because there was a lot back in the day, even IGN had one).
You can buy steam keys for games elsewhere. I’ve gotten tons of games off Humble bundles for example.
Steam launched years before the others and had a lot of friction as well. I didn’t actually buy into it until like 2010/2011. Epic, Uplay, and origin were too late to the game to break in and pull the anti-competitive shit they did. Steam gives it’s customers what they want, the others just try to put themselves in the way to enrich their shareholders, then cry when no one wants to use their shitty product.
The problem there was I already had steam as a launcher. I didn’t need more and theirs were only their own games, so I would never use it when steam has all the publishers. If they had sold a drm free download I’d have gladly bought it directly from them. It’s the same problem the cable networks can’t understand. Just stay in your lane make the fucking content and publish it to the streaming platforms that host it all. You don’t need your own platform with practically no content even Disney is failing to pull that off.
We had an assembly where we got a kit that had like a toothbrush and travel toothpaste and floss in it that came with a couple of these. I think the idea was to make sure all the kids got at least some exposure to proper dental hygiene in case their parents weren’t doing it. You weren’t supposed to eat the tablet at school so everyone could see you didn’t brush though, I’m sure plenty of kids did anyway.
Yeah, if actual communities want to come here and post about their interests that’d be awesome. Just more randoms from reddit or facebook coming in to throw out their opinions about things they barely understand and make more political posts? No thanks.
A friend of mine’s sister was making comments about me and asked if she could kiss me with her husband sitting right next to us. That was pretty fucking awkward.
Yeah, that shit made it really easy to abandon reddit when my account was banned. I briefly attempted to get back on with a new account but none of the communities I liked let you participate without an established account,
Valve is only a monopoly because they are the best. If another storefront showed up and covered the gaps in what valve offers then they’d be able to carve out a niche for themselves like gog with drm free downloads. You can’t get that on steam. The others such as epic only seem to be able to come up with anti competitive bullshit that only harms the consumer. All these fucking companies these days seem to have forgotten that they exist to serve us. Steam at least still has a great deal of momentum in that direction. They do far more for us than any of the other options IMO. It’s not even close.
As far as I’m aware only gog really “competes” with them the other platforms are worse by a lot.
Having a headphone jack doesn’t mean anything if the phone doesn’t have an FM receiver.
It means I can connect my phone to my car stereo without a bunch of fucking dongles.
My Motorola does too. I’m liking it so far.
I personally couldn’t give less of a fuck if my phone was waterproof. That’s literally never been a problem for me. The only time it would have been I had it in a dry box so it was fine. I use my aux jack every day. Thankfully Motorola still had an option when I replaced my last phone. Although I did have to give up having a removable battery and the IR blaster(which actually would have been handy a couple weeks ago).
I mean, yeah, but things should be better for desk workers too. We’re all being taken advantage of in different ways. I was WAAAAAAAAY happier working in auto shops and occasionally getting injured than I ever have been working in IT. If I could make ends meet doing that I’d go back in a heartbeat. It’s fucked that anyone doing skilled or dangerous work should struggle to own a home and live comfortably.
Maybe if it’s ai mode could provide accurate information it would be better.
I mean, it should have stayed in the news the first time until it was followed by the story of how his child molesting ass was removed from office and dealt with. But know the media just skipped right along to the next bullshit that should have resulted in the same thing but didn’t. Just endlessly cycling through horrible shit.
Is the programmer reviewing the code ai shits out or blindly trusting it?
Okay? That doesn’t have anything to do with the issue.
I would feel like I was annoying the fuck out of all the locals if I had to do that. Cannot imagine how stressful that would be.