I just read in Wikipedia that Valve is privately helded.
There must be something magical in the fact that they don’t need to feed their shareholders with mountains of cash every quarter, and actually focus on their customers, as happened in this post.
Also to be fair they tried to kill PSN store on the PS3 but the resulting backlash made them realize to do so would kill customer faith in the PS4 and PS5 PSN stores and so they backed off. Nintendo could only get away with it because they already trained us not to trust their online stores and buy physical only. Since Steam doesn’t have a physical option they need to play their cards right.
True, private companies are generally more focused on customer satisfaction, but that can suddenly change, for instance when the owner dies, and the new owners don’t share the same ideals.
Private companies have a certain single point of failure built-in by having often just one or sometimes a small number of owners.
Nobody really knows what will happen when Gabe dies.
I just hope that valve becomes a worker cooperative… That would be the most stable form of company that probaly stays focused on customer satisfaction long term, since workers tend to favor providing long-term profits via good service instead of short term gains, for high frequency traders.
It’s addictive. We regulate other addictive things like cigarettes, no reason we shouldn’t put guard rails on gambling. We already do, but I think we’ve got to the end regs in a few areas.
Not a bad looking effort either, no black pudding or tattie scone, and some iced coffee looking abomination over a good builders tea keeps it from perfection, but good go. Glad you liked it.
Yeah, I haven’t found any coffee shop around me where I can buy myself something better than instant coffee for home, so when I saw they had coffee I had to go for it!
There’s been a real boom in roasters over here in the UK over event years. No idea how you like your coffee but I love Roaring Stag up in Ballater, Scotland. They so online delivery, if you like a real dark roast their Dark Lochnagar is great.
I was thinking of trying this year coffee with a filter where you drop water on it, last year I tried coffee with an Italian Machine. I’m not big into coffee but I want to try different ways and the difference it makes
I have a beginner question, if i’d go for an aeropress, or a simple filter. The coffee always has to be grinded before putting the water, so either I also need a grinding machine, or I would be limited to buying pre-grinded coffee which I am guessing from what I’ve looked at, is rarer to find
That is a good point, yes it needs to be ground and finely at that. The pages I but my brand from do offer to grind for you though. Also I’m the supermarkets in the UK it is mostly ground that is sold, though I don’t know how finely.
Decent electric grinders are pretty cheap, and worth it, I’d say.
But pre-ground coffee is much easier to find than beans, you just need to make sure you get the right grind for your preferences. In an Aeropress, if it’s an Espresso grind, don’t brew it for more than ~30 seconds (with a bit of a stir). If it’s a coarser grind, use the inverted method and brew it for 2-3 minutes before pressing. You’ll need to experiment a bit to find out how you like it.
You can get permanent metal filters for the Aeropress. Connoisseurs will tell you it makes a difference, I just want minimum hassle and running out of filters is a hassle.
Hey @JimmyChanga ! I come back here to tell you that I made a small budget and leard a bit more about coffee from your comment 4 months ago, and got myself an Aeropress! It’s coming tomorow! I’ll be waiting a tiny bit before getting myself an aeropress, my parents have some unopened pre-grinded coffee they didn’t use anymore that i’ll finish before then! Thank you for you coment 4 months ago and happy new year!
the question is: is a skeleton that’s missing pieces still “one skeleton”? And if so, at which point does it become not a skeleton? Because i’m reasonably sure you wouldn’t call a severed foot a skeleton even though it is still arguably “one skeleton” that is just missing a lot of pieces.
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
I own and like the steam link, but the reason they don’t sell it anymore is because the steam link app is on most smart devices now, and if your TV doesn’t support it, you can buy a streaming stick that does for like $30, give or take depending on sales. And those devices are more portable (less wires) and more versatile than a steam link.
Any competitive price for the steam link would be less than what Valve can produce them for. Weren’t they selling it for $5 at the end? Pretty sure I picked mine up for $10 or less. Steam can’t show ads to subsidize the price of the hardware like every other smart device does.
Steam Link connects your device to any computer that’s running Steam.
Get it now for:
iPhone, iPad, & Apple TV (11.0+)
Android (5.0+) phone, tablet, & TV
Android users without access to Google Play
Raspberry Pi 3, 3+, & 4 *Windows
Linux
MacOS
Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro
I wonder if you added up the percentage of ownership for all those devices listed above, versus all smart devices including Roku and webOS, what the numbers would look like.
I’m not sure if Tizen OS (Samsung TV) is lumped under “Android” (I’m not even sure if it is Android?) but it also works great on every Samsung TV I’ve tried it on!
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.
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