[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

That's the same for any digital platform, though. Literally, any gaming store except for GOG won't let you take your library with you. You don't own the game as far as any of them are concerned. You're claiming Steam is some kind of monster because their platform for games you don't own is better than other platforms for games you don't own. Because their platform doesn't sucks, it earns them a lot of business. That's it. That's the magic sauce.

With options, if Stream sucked, people would go elsewhere.

If Steam had anything resembling a monopoly they'd do everything they could to remove platforms offering the same games. The number of platforms has only expanded since they started.

If Stream was a monopoly, they'd not only undercut others, they'd pay for exclusivity rights. Steam let's developers sell their own keys from anywhere the developer wants, while taking no cut when that happens, even though Steam still has to front the bandwidth and storage for the game to be played.

If Steam was a monopoly, they'd buy up smaller firms, buy businesses with similar, but competing services, or take another company's product, reverse engineer it, and make their own undercutting the original. They've done the opposite at every turn.

You really don't understand monopolistic tactics. You're not going to understand it, either, since you've continues to conflate good business decisions that earn trust and adoption with anti-consumer practices. Steam makes good business decisions, listens to their customers and developers about ways to make the service or products better, and has more business because of it. They have a better product without stooping to the air a in lot of current businesses are pulling.

That's it. 70% market dominance doesn't fucking matter. They could have 90% and it still wouldn't be a monopoly with their current strategy. Other businesses need to suck less.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

First, you think they are just going to give straight year term limits and be done with it? They have people far smarter than us writing this shit. It'll likely be some sort thing where each presidential term gets to pick a new judge, while making sure the longest serving is removed. I don't know, I saw someone talk about a way that would ensure it's fair and no partisanship can sustain generations.

Also, the government will be affected, is what you wanted to say.

To help remember the correct one using RPGs, you cast an effect on someone, which has an affect on them some how.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I remember those days. Appreciated it!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Anyone wanna start a sysadmin union? Anyone? Please? My neck is starting to hurt from all the hats they make me wear!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I bet the Onion had an article about Crowdstrike offering the world a pizza party and expired Bed Bath & Beyond coupons to say they're sorry. Real life might be quicker than satire, it seems!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Slide to the right

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Honestly, who is surprised? Those people are clowns and I'm sure Harris has been dealing with this since becoming a public figure. Her race is lower hanging fruit than her laugh, at this point. I was more surprised by the laughing shit than I am of this!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of great research is going into CBD and I'm all about it. It shows all the positives without a lot of the negatives. The PTSD and depression research is especially helpful knowing how many of my fellow vets are suffering from such ailments!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I hate myself, this world, and most people so much that I want to do psychedelics just to kill that side of me and, hopefully, start feeling like I have some sort of power again. I am about to look into buying the spores and growing my own, but I don't want a shit ton of extra shrooms. I just want to do one heavy dose, let my inner id die, and live my life again.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Fat~~ Far out! You're like the only person I've seen mention emby. It's always Plex. Been running emby for a while and it's great.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Just the burner.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

No problem. I don't apply my experiences to others' lives, or at least I try not to. Thanks for taking along the lines I was trying to convey!

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