That’s a fair take, I just don’t like posting amount being targeted since lemmy needs as much engagement as it can get imo.

Certain brands automatically connect themselves to open wifis I think so there is that to consider as well.

It looks like it’s made out of chocolate.

You have posted 9 comments in the last 18 minutes and almost all your comments are political like his.

There is a way to debate people without rhetoric.

Saying that a fab costs 200 billion when they usually cost from 10 to 20.

Other companies didn’t pay the arbitration fee so valves system was a bit better than the rest. Realistically, the consumer always gets fucked.

The point is more that Steam is getting praised for this, while it’s just to make class action lawsuits, like the one they were just served with for their anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviors, much costlier for the other party.

I imagine the amount of families that are grieving and how many young men, who had little before and now lost everything and are probably shaking with rage.

They trade one leader for thousands of new members.

an average of 54 miles each day

It also mention she ran 17 jours a day. I can’t imagine the kind of energy it takes to keep that pace going for 40 days. Absolutely insane.

Yup, it’s a cool feature and I’ll be sure to get some kind of open source tool that leverages my own computer ressources and isn’t tied to such a terrible printer to do it.

The image choosing was always just to train their own bots

So are you willing to give up ownership of the url and have the instance be transfered to someone else’s hardware?

Maybe I misunderstood where you are going with this.

Just coordinate the release of the urls and the transfer of the instance.

I’m skeptical about this since you are squatting on at least 18 urls while trying to get volunteers to create value out of them. Nothing leads me to assume you are being altruistic.

Edit: misattributed something, woops

It seems like you are waiting for the next influx to potentially monetize and trying to hold the most potential instances without putting any work or money into it. It’s just my impression.

I also think instances without users are a terrible idea and I’d rather real instances come about organically instead created by people that actually care about the subject.

It seems kind of slimy.

If you don’t want the communities, stop squatting them. Having no users seems like just a way to keep costs down so you can hold onto more urls and is bad for the general ecosystem anyways.

It’s just a way to bring in and trap people in their ecosystem. It’s free like Gmail is free, not out of altruism. The bad seriously outweigh the good when it comes to steam, we shouldn’t praise them.

You can use the same argument about Musk or Benzos as well. Clearly, they are over charging for the value or they wouldn’t be billionaires.

Steam could give the same value on 2% taken and Gaben would probably still be able to afford at least one of his 6 mega yatchs. But there’s indie companies that are struggling where just an extra 10% would go a long way.

In the end, Gaben and his friends greed is killing indie companies, affecting the quality and amount of games we get and is having a detrimental effect on the industry.

Yet because Gaben has a really good pr team and managed to convince everyone he’s “not your average billionaire”, we now have comments comparing him to Jesus and applauding his monopoly as being the only good one. Fucking hell.

Poverty wages to an extent where it’s become part of their brand identity doesn’t really make me want to encourage them to be honest.

There is no such thing as a good monopoly. He leverages a 30% tax on a huge chunk of the gaming industry. Steam, Microsoft, Epic, Sony and Nintendo all essentially participate in collusion and anti competitive behavior.

Think of all the indie studios that closed and sequels that got canceled and ask yourself if they could have made it if steam only took 5%.

They leveraged linux to save on development and maintenance costs. Capturing the handheld market at a tenth of the price while making the same profit isn’t altruisme.

At twelve disciples, that means he can give each pair one of his mega yatchs. I’m sure with a third of all gaming profit coming their way, the twelve of them will be able to afford the 100 million per year it costs to maintain the fleet worth around 1 billion.

He’s not Jesus, he is just a piece of shit billionaire like the rest.

My buddy pissed himself in middle school during an exam. We never mentioned it or mocked him for it which is pretty surprising at that age but I definitely remember.

Lobbying is corruption