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I remember this kind of shit when I worked at Caterpillar. I always assumed the requested permission messages just disappeared into the void. Of course, I was IT so my requests were usually asking for more than they’d want their help desk staff to have.

One use-case for me has been converting code from a language I know to a language I don’t. Usually, just small snippets. The code is usually full of holes, but I’m good enough with the logic to duct tape those puppies!

The wealthy in this world are just like my 4yo, they just want instant gratification. No amount of justification or considerations matter when your soul purpose is to get as much as possible while you can and fuck everyone else! The race to the bottom continues!

Every day I turn on my LG TV, it wants an update. It’s been doing this for like 3 years now. Given the article, it won’t be getting that update any time soon!

Wow, that title was a rollercoaster!

It is a 2014 Ford Escape. But this is not the only experience of this sort that I’ve had with Ford.

It’s worse when you consider the state of the world and the warming. They’d have about 20 sq\km of land capable of supporting them and they’d have to share it with those psychos, polar bears.

The worst* make of cars is now hoping to fuck over their consumers even more.

* can’t change the fucking battery unless you take half the fucking engine area apart.

I’ll switch when Windows 10 is no longer supported. Or just before.

Wrong comment, sorry.

The last '20s sucked also. All of this has happened before, and it’ll all happen again, but this time with ads and AI!!

Wonder if the cables replaced by OP were user-made, not commercial cables, that were our together incorrectly.

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.

You’re either a troll, extremely young, naive, and/or uneducated if you think my comment above is in defense of billionaires. I literally have comments in my history to the absolute opposite*. What I’m “defending” is the definition of a monopoly when it comes to business practices; of which Valve has exuded none of the behavior of.

You think any business doing well, providing quality goods and services, not being anti-consumer, and being the most trusted platform for gaming as a result is the definition of a monopoly. Again, you use fallacy to try and argue a point.

Wait… Are you that dickhead from Epic who pays for exclusivity rights, steaks user data from Steam files, or something? I could see that guy being pissed at Steam for seemingly no reason.

* one such comment, if I recall, is about how much I hated Steam when it first came out for killing LAN parties by locking down CD keys.

You really gotta aim your sights higher if that’s the criteria you’re using for a “monopoly”. Valve is a private company, that sells games and other “wants”, not “needs”. If people can’t afford games, without losing their house or struggling to eat, I don’t think that’s a company’s fault.

If Valve was even close to using anti-competitive methods to maintain market dominance, you’d be correct. However, a company having superior quality products and making good business decisions is not a basis or definition of a monopoly. They just make good decisions and provide quality products that people want and enjoy.

Instead of using strawman and false equivalency fallacies, try taking a look at what really constitutes anti-competitive practices.

And if a company makes a negligent decision, which kills a million people over time, why is no one being put on death row? They can and do have it both ways, but I can still wish for a just world where if companies are people, they can be put to death for mass casualties caused by their decisions.

Dialed up to Windows 11!

Google is next!

Depending on how the US elections go in November, Americans may soon find out.