Rimworld, palworld, armored core vi, ready or not, cp2077 and metro

I definitely agree with you but I’m not sure how far they can take this in an economic situation that is currently devolving into a major recession and has all the macroeconomic factors of an incoming second depression.

Firefox + ublock origin would be your best scenario for privacy and security. Privacy because all these ads track your page loads and attempt to generate a unique id for your browser based on your loading time of certain pixels, and security because nearly half of all ads (and more than half of all links on google search and nearly all ads on google search) are viral loads just waiting for an accidental click.

Adblockers or torrents mate. I’ve not seen an ad in over 18 years.

How these companies don’t realize these incompetent decisions push formerly paying customers into piracy is actually beyond me.

Do every c-level employee in these companies have brain damage?

Unless each one of those “A’s” stands for “ASS”, I beg to differ.

Anyone who does this should be blacklisted entirely

I don’t take any company seriously that expects their customer base to willingly allow ring zero access.

I’ve picked xfce on basically every distro I’ve used and I’ve hopped through like 30 distro’s.

takes lace gloves off

I feel extremely called out right now.

puts lace gloves back on

Pretending like there’s not a causal relationship just because people are inherently assholes is dishonest.

Every community has assholes and the amount of negative behaviour can be directly correlated to a products issues.

Have they considered the likelihood of the increased toxicity being due to their business model and product performance?

No?

I didn’t think so.

Gotta love when people start making shit up in order to do a ‘gotcha’. Especially when they usually don’t read any additional materials to back up their incompetent viewpoints.

I am personally against subscription models and prefer to pay for a product but I’m not going to just ignore the benefit that sub models have provided to the industry.

God damn I love Larian studios.

I don’t pirate games anymore because steam solved my access problem.

Amazing that all these shitty streaming services make me wish blockbuster was a thing again.

But, since it isn’t and never will be, it’s a yo ho ho from me.

(Until a reasonable steam-esque service for movies/shows turns up anyway)

So, a product that has been discontinued doesn’t mean that it needs to lose software support, was the point I was trying to make. It would be nice if they still sold them but still good that the people that own them can continue to use them and are receiving security updates for them.

I think it’s important that companies like google, samsung, apple, etc are held to at least this standard where products don’t need to be changed unless they actually break, rather than forcing software changes that break or reduce effectiveness of the product to try and force the consumer to produce e-waste and buy a new product.

Nothing wrong with wanting new products, however that should be a personal decision made at a personal level by a consumer not one forced onto them by a company who designed products using the planned obsolescence doctrine.

That’s because unlike most other businesses steam understands that if you want people to keep buying your products, you need to provide a decent service

Just a firm reminder that pirates get better service than the people that pay all these garbage subscriptions

I very much understand your pain, my drive died mid-year while I was at university, I just cleaned it up and added it to a virtual machine with win10 to finish projects with the windows based programs.

Worked surprisingly well. I used virtual machine manager on arch (and now endeavour, I can’t stop distro hopping but I’ve stayed on endeavour the longest)

I’ve had great results with EndeavourOS