I’m pretty sure that’s what you said last time.

I can’t help but wince at the thought of not seeing the spider before plugging in the ethernet cable…

Anticompetitive behavior is tolerated much more from companies that aren’t the market leader, and Apple Books is far from the market leader.

like a cake

Gabe Newell. Instead of rotting his brain on bigotry, he just buys another yacht.

Don’t do it. Don’t watch it. Don’t hate watch it. Stop talking about it. Let it die. Let it fall out of the public eye. Make Rowling become irrelevant. Let some other world become your fandom instead of HP. The longer people pay attention to it, the longer Rowling continues to punish trans kids.

ffs, you do not own the games you bought.

You haven’t owned the games you buy since software licenses became ubiquitous.

Any business that has over 4% market rate should be forcibly split.

My dude, 4% is insanity. If you did that, there would be - at absolute bare minimum - 26 different companies for any given market, including distribution. No one would be able to scale to serve global demand in any way, shape, or form. You’d have to route packages through three different companies in order to get a product to your friend in Switzerland. Any product that got popular would see its parent company split. If someone wrote an OS that was too good and everyone decided it was fantastic, the company would somehow have to split in such a way as to divide the OS share between two companies, which would then negate the point of having the same OS as your buddy.

The problem isn’t market share, it’s enforced market share. Anti-competitive practices. Lobbying. Buying out competition. These are places that Steam demonstrably is more ethical than its competition.

All Epic had to do in order to capitalize on Fortnite was to make a launcher that was better than (or at least approaching the quality of) Valve’s. Instead, when the starting gun went off, they started walking backwards.

The problem is that, allegedly, there are threatening emails from Valve to developers who tried to sell for lower prices on other platforms (NOT Steam keys). If this is true, then there is actual ammunition against Valve.

Too on-topic, not enough self-aggrandizing tangents.

I was lucky enough to nab one before hardware prices went to the fucking moon. Specs are good enough that hopefully it’ll last me until prices drop again and I can afford to do selective upgrades on parts.