That actually isn’t always true.

Where I live there are so many third parties offering refills that doing it yourself is always more expensive.

The problem is that it’s really hard to leave.

Building your own library from scratch is a lot of work after getting used to streaming.

And Spotify alternatives are either worse or unavailable in my region.

Don’t change the settings from defaults and it won’t look like this.

You’ve specifically changed the profile from default or adjusted settings for one of them to give extra highlight to the roads.
That, or you’ve changed the theme from default.

They can’t even keep their original promise of DRM free games.
For example, they thought they could get away with selling latest Hitman with its always-online DRM, and only changed their minds after the backlash.

Also, from the beginning they’ve been promising to support Linux.
Nothing but empty promises so far, they didn’t even have the decency to publicly admit it’s never happening.

Valve, meanwhile, didn’t promise anything, but quietly funded the development of Wine and all kinds of related open source software.
Thanks to their work I’ve been able to completely ditch Windows a few years ago.

For this reason alone I’m glad to buy from Steam whenever I can.

I really wanted GOG to be a viable competition, but their years and years of broken promises are not going to make me leave Steam.

And why would they care anyway? Why does anyone?

“Pope says” is pretty much irrelevant, even to a lot of christians, not to mention everyone else.

Where’s the problem? It makes learning much more approachable and interesting.

If I want to read, I can just stay at home and read on the Internet.

Pretty sure that’d be illegal under GDPR.

Yeah, but Bandcamp isn’t an alternative to Spotify.

It’s an alternative to streaming.

Which competitor doesn’t allow them?

We fought the man and won.

I think Anna is a woman’s name. /s

Last attempt to squeeze some money before these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.

Not sure if this is true for all EU now, but they can’t raise prices on their own, period.

They have to inform you and unless you agree all they’re allowed to do is cancel your service once the new pricing is in effect.

And illegal/abusive clauses in the T&C are null and void.

To be fair, I’m actually pleasantly surprised that people didn’t go for it.

It’s not like majority of people seemed to give a shit about privacy not too long ago…

What’s complicated?

Every charger says what max power it has, it’s pretty simple.

The only issue is that cables don’t have to be marked, but until 60W pretty much anything will work.

Optimization? Did you mean to write monopolistic, anti-competitive, and unethical practices?

Because if there’s one thing Nvidia knows how to do, it’s to play dirty.

Tidal doesn’t even have anything over Spotify.
Their version of Spotify Connect barely works at the best of times, on my AV I couldn’t get it to work at all.

And Qobuz… isn’t even available in a bunch of countries.

For me, the only real alternative is piracy and setting up my own streaming.
But I’m too lazy for that, so with Spotify at least the artists get paid something, and I can be reasonably certain that whatever I want to listen to will actually be available.

Also, Bandcamp was sold a while ago and fired half their staff, so not sure about ethics here.

Oh, sorry.

It’s just hard to assume good intentions when so many people actually excuse these actions. :/

“Not that deep”? They shouldn’t have been anywhere near the border, that’s not where the front lines are.

And some of them were shot down, you can’t just claim it’s “not that deep” as if they just stopped by themselves.

Yeah, I remember, now we still have Windows being vulnerable, but in addition we also have untested changes pushed automatically to paying customers.

Forced updates are great!