Expectation: it doesn’t work well at all

Result: It kinda works?

Some nasty jerks they are. Well now internationally famous nasty jerks.

I remember using Reddit years ago on Links. New Reddit was borderline unusable, old Reddit worked… okayish. How is Default web UI Lemmy on Links? Is there a nice TUI client that I guess you would use more regularly?

I mean it’s safe to say it was probably the last opportunity to do a protest on that scale even before these changes. Maybe they can still do “remove any post on wellthatsucks that isn’t a vacuum” type of change.

Probably old Reddit imploding will bring a few more this way, but safe to say that most people who left Reddit because it’s changed for the worse since 5-15 years ago have already left. Still, I have seen a few new users join Lemmy after TechLinked mentioned the site and a continuous trickle would be welcome.

On another note, hearing the “council of Reddit moderators” makes me imagine a cringeworthy meetup in someone’s basement.

Not even enticing people with “free premium currency” just for logging in could entice me to play an Ubisoft shooter.

Yeah seems legit, “party of family values” - let’s rent some women for your photoshoot. I wonder if they consulted Mike Pence’s binders to find them.

I can’t deny that Steam has a large marketshare over the digital video game distribution market, and that it could abuse its position, and that the 30% distributor cut is steep. All true. Is it currently abusing its position? Arguably yes and no.

Looking through the evidence document provided in the video, the alleged link between decreased % of multihoming indicating the enforcement of a PMFN is weak IMO. Steam’s support for Linux, its own Steam Deck, good customer service, return policy, family sharing and remote play are major reasons to be a Valve patron, not always about price.

The evidence at 9:05 in the video that suggests Valve says they “stop selling them altogether” was in response to a Steam Key inquiry. The other quotes were related to removing it from the front page and sales feature pages (not delisting but not there unless you search for it). That’s not delisting but perhaps it is anti-competitively deranking it. I’m not sure what the rules are though, like a grocery store doesn’t have to put a product at the front of a store when a rival has a steeper sale for it, but they could ask for the same discount while offering to make it similarly visible. Overall it’s not nearly as serious as OOP makes it seem.

The 2 reasons you provide are actually why games that offer an offline mode functionality (more specifically that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good available at the time of purchase for permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet) are exempted from needing to follow this law.

I don’t think this is a preemption of the SKG campaign but actually one of the realistic goals of that campaign. I don’t think the ability to rent software for a limited time is an issue, but tricking people into thinking they can use something they purchased forever, to have it unilaterally taken away due to 3rd party licensing, decommissioning servers or other excuse is the problem.

I think this idea is good. I remember seeing those domain names last year. At the time it seemed muddy and uncomfortable to me, since there was a whole scheme of Reddit ghost accounts posting, while I understood there were good intentions behind it, mirrored posts were flooding users’ All feed to the point I started blocking a bunch of subs, and many admins defederated.

If we can promote the community first approach where the domain is the space for discussion to be held and stored, with users connecting from across the Fediverse, this would be excellent, a good alternative to massive centralized Lemmy servers. Collective ownership would ensure preservation of content if one or more go offline.

This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying “anything goes if you agree to it” this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.

Ubisoft might have to get used to not owning high value stock, if they keep pushing through anti-consumer bullshit in their games.

Updates uninstalled, all available permissions turned off, auto-update turned off for Galaxy Store. That app has done nothing but get in my way. Thanks for the reminder, Samsung.

“The remote shutdown did not affect these vehicles. They are operating normally, without any failures,” he said Friday on Telegram, per CNN. “You couldn’t ask for better advertising for the Cybertruck.”

Buy a Cybertruck today! Only 1 in 3 chance it stops working after 2 months!

So this seems a bit of a technical and bureaucratic challenge than intentional malice and fuckery.

The main fuck up imo is that the grant is contingent on connecting to the Bonneville grid. If they strike that condition against the funding or a portion of it, you could have a working local grid, and isolate between the existing grid and the solar one, cutting between them twice a day until such time the connection agreements are settled.

If offered $100M with no conditions except that $150M needs to be spent to have a chance to get it, that’s more of a gamble than a grant.

Ok. Well first day problems just get it fixed and notify all online absentee voters of the issue.

Let’s save money and have AI control the Nuclear Power Plant, see what happens >:]

Florida is going to prosecute their own healthcare workers, regardless of what the law actually says or means. What is “to save the life of the mother”, to avoid any injury or only when the mother-to-be is days, hours, minutes from dying? The whole point is to confuse and scare doctors into not providing the necessary care that women need.

The mayor should keeping hammering the point, that Haitians are causing none of the chaos. It’s the unaccepting violent bigots calling in the bomb threats and making Springfield unsafe.

It’s kind of sad that I already envision the Trump-acolyte/Fox News spin on this:

Trump expertly realizes the potential for Alaska to bring America the wealth and prosperity the likes seen in Middle East oil country, while simultaneously slamming Biden for his disastrous and cowardly military withdrawal. What an artful genius!

That’s definitely a once in a lifetime experience, I can’t really knock them for the thrill of it.

Little did these folks know Steam is doing a Planes Trains and Automobiles Sale right now to get their big vehicle driving fix.