There was a reason people bought consoles. One of those was physical media and the fact you actually owned your copy, could resell it and lend it out. So this has nothing to do with Valve who has almost always been digital. If you want to compare it, you’d need a hypothetical like “Valve always sold digital games but will now switch to disk only games.”

Maybe they just want people to waste time pointing spiderman fingers at eachother for not turning off their computers.

That means by simply connecting them to the internet you’re generating around $20/month for Meta. Now how would they do that? :)

Important read:

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days - “He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

https://archive.ph/AL7pv

Not even EVs. The work was getting done by researchers improving electric motors and batteries. As soon as the technology was viable Elon jumped on it and marketed himself as the person behind it all. Same goes for PayPal which he stole credit for, rockets that people already worked decades on, tunnels that are just bad metros, and machine learning (AI) that people were already doing since the 70’s and only recently had breakthroughs because of the increased ability to feed it data en masse.

The only credit he should get is having the power and charisma to capitalize on the work of others. He’s a Thomas Edison and not a Nikola Tesla.

Stremio is enshitifying.

https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-supporters-a-way-to-sustain-our-development/

I can’t even watch 4k with a 4k subscription because they don’t allow that on the desktop.

But pirates don’t care and I can enjoy the show like it was meant to be.

Stremio is enshitifying. Profiles were a long asked feature and they are implementing that in a paid Stremio subscription.

So you either suck it up and pay or hope that alternatives like Nuvio, Aurora and RealStream gain more traction and support.

RSS is one of the things I have been using for ages. I setup all my favorite news sources and just browse it instead of going to any one website in particular. It works great and makes it so much easier.

In my country the far right has spent hundreds of thousands on social media advertising. And what do they advertise? Fight videos where colored people are the aggressor. But advertising about how they are going to increase the pension age, lower taxes for people with capital, and all such bullshit is only mentioned in small print when you go look for it. The mainstream media just follows whatever the hype is.

That reminds me of my Microsoft account. I had to create a microsoft account for my windows VM (I need it because i develop crossplatform) and i called my account something along the lines of f4ckyoustup1dm1crosh1t.

They have no grievances. They believe they have grievances because they have been manipulated by the AfD to need an enemy which the AfD presents them on a platter. It’s literally the only thing far right politics boils down to so the people give them power which they can use to steal money.

This is a big reason. I don’t even feel safe checking my phone when it’s in a holder, which is legally allowed where I live in Europe.

It’s friday and your boss wants to move everything over to a blockchain. He says it will only take an hour tops.

“We need cloud computing!!!”

5 minutes later: “Ok a monolith is good enough”

I have no idea, but Valve does because they have the analytics for it. They can see what games are bought, played and ran on Proton.

And it seems profitable.

That’s true, but I’m also hoping for them to destroy the current console monopolies.

You can easily separate Proton development costs from the Steam Machine.

I have been buying Proton supported games on Steam and they know it.

All of that is called cost, not profit.

Well Sony sold the PS5 at a loss, so maybe we should stop their bullshit first. I just think Steam should play the game but draw the line at the cost instead of a loss.