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piratepiracy ,

Eat the rich.

jordanpeterson ,

In the ever-evolving tapestry of socio-economic structures, where the dance of individualism meets the collective force of organized entities, corporations have emerged as titan-like presences, wielding significant influence and power. The philosophical foundations of free-market capitalism, deeply rooted in the ideas of thinkers like Adam Smith and further cultivated by the likes of Friedrich Hayek, argue for the intrinsic virtues of an unbridled market, where entities, be they individuals or corporations, pursue their objectives with minimal constraints.

Now, let’s venture into a provocative postulate: the idea that corporations, these monolithic embodiments of collective human ambition and capital, should operate with an unfettered hand, devoid of any shackles or constraints. At its core, this suggestion is an amplification of the quintessential libertarian ethos, where the individual’s—or in this case, the corporation’s—right to autonomy and self-determination is held paramount.

By extending this principle to its logical zenith, one might contend that corporations, as amalgamations of human effort and ingenuity, should be granted the latitude to navigate the vast seas of commerce and innovation as they see fit, unencumbered by external impositions. This isn’t merely a statement about market dynamics, but rather, a deep philosophical reflection on the nature of freedom, responsibility, and the interplay between order and chaos in our socio-economic landscape. It’s a call for a pure, unadulterated trust in the self-regulating mechanisms of the market, with the underlying belief that in the grand crucible of competition and innovation, the best outcomes will naturally emerge.

kool_newt ,

I remember my grandpa casually telling a story one time when our family went out for pizza. He talked about how all the farm animals in the village and surrounding villages in Mexico suddenly died, and then John Deere came around selling tractors. This would’ve happened around the late 1950s I think. I have no idea if this is true or not.

jampacked ,

They only seem popular on high subsidy farms.

lennybird ,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I don’t know how anyone could compel themselves to buy one. Do they really have that much of a monopoly on the industry? Is their tech that much further advanced? I genuinely don’t know.

What is the best, more ethical alternative? Growing up my dad had New Holland and we liked them. Eventually I’ll be going more rural and choosing a route to take and it sure as shit won’t be John Deere.

AngryCommieKender ,

One? Probably not. A fleet of 5-20 to tend a thousand or more acres, I can see that. They’ve basically got the things able to run on autopilot for many processes

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

This is the natural result of what we vote for every two years.

TheCraiggers ,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Is it? I don’t remember seeing a guy running for Congress that promised he’d prevent huge corporations from running rough shod over everything.

People like saying stuff like “just vote better”, but the fact is the vast majority of people that run for any office are pro-big business because that’s their background and the lobbyists give them lots of money to get elected. Where’s the anti-big business guy going to get his money to run? And without money, you sure aren’t winning.

Through lobbying, corporations have us all by the balls. It doesn’t matter what side of the isle you’re on; both sides have basically been endorsed by big money.

smellythief ,

I don’t remember seeing a guy running for Congress that promised he’d prevent huge corporations from running rough shod over everything.

What we need is ranked voting so someone like that might have a chance on the ballot.

dx1 ,

We need to vote on bills directly, having representatives is stupid.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

Campaign finance reform is necessary to tackle big business interests out for regulatory capture. Shift some of that subsidy into funding campaigns so the little guy stands a chance against them and their billionaire club.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

The result of vote is only as good at the voting system used and the people voting. A more representative voting system leads to more public representation in government, which would likely improve the lives of the voters who will vote next time.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

You’re much more optimistic than I am.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not sure about that. A party that ‘wins’ under first-past-the-post/winner-take-all is unlikly to change the voting system such that they would be less likely to get into power next time. I have no idea of the path to changing the voting system. I hope intoducing people to other voting systems helps.

fne8w2ah ,

Louis Rossmann in his natural habitat.

skymtf ,

EAT THE RICH CAPTIALISM SUCKS

iHUNTcriminals ,

Every mobbing bicth is a loud mouthed sunt.

Techpriest2 ,
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    mojofrododojo ,
    @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world avatar

    TIL Kubota is the Brother Printers option for tractors. Good to know!

    gamer ,

    Are brother printer still good? I thought they started doing the ink DRM thing and other bullshit too.

    joenforcer ,

    Sorta. My old MFP Brother apparently has a firmware update available that makes it aware of the toner brand and I just ignore it. It’s not as bad as HP where a low level of ink turns the machine into a brick.

    mojofrododojo ,
    @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world avatar

    I have a brother color laser from 2013 that’s still printing awesome. toner cartridges are $200 for all 4 colors, but I only replaced them in 2015, 2019, and at the beginning of this summer - getting a few thousand pages out of each, conservatively. it’s not a glossy photoprinter, but if you just need high res document prints, I cannot recommend it enough. wifi, cat5, driver is built in to windows 10/11, works fine with android and linux too.

    AnUnusualRelic ,
    @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

    I run a multifunction colour Brother as well. I’ve used it with Brother and various other brands of toner without issues. It will keep printing even if a cartridge is empty. Finding consumables is easy. It runs great from Linux (duplex scans and prints), Windows and mobiles through the LAN. It’s a great machine. You can even override the “low toner” alarm and basically double the life of your cartridges (maybe shake them a bit beforehand). You just swap them out when the quality visibly degrades. I think I bought it for about 400€, it was well worth it.

    mojofrododojo ,
    @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world avatar

    yup. I never thought I’d feel evangelistic about a brand of printers but holy hell did everyone else race to the bottom of the shit barrel in this entire category. so here we are, praise brother lol, they’re COMPETENT.

    wth ,

    My 5 year old brother color laser is awesome. Cheap to run and toner doesn’t dry out, and it doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night and clean (i.e. use up) the ink.

    However having seem comments like this, I think I will hold off on any firmware updates.

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    GBU_28 ,

    Make a new tractor company

    FringeTheory999 ,

    you have to already be rich for that. instead, eat the rich.

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    Not necessarily. A bunch of us could band together and fund a bunch of folks who are good at building shit and just commission them to design and build new tractors that are easily repairable – preferably electric too – and then sell them. And this effort could be incorporated as a non-profit, which itself legally can own businesses and those businesses could sell them at a profit, and kill off John Deere’s shitty-ass company and any other shitbirds that want to take away consumers’ rights to own their own products.

    tst123 ,
    @tst123@lemmy.world avatar

    I love how you’re getting downvoted for stating something actionable rather than some catchy nonsense that doesn’t actually solve anything.

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    That tells you all you need to know about how other people really are.

    Blimp7990 ,

    That tells you all you need to know about how other people really are.

    whats the last manufacturing company you started?

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    Why in the world would I doxx myself just to win an argument?

    You’re a prat.

    Blimp7990 ,

    lol, what a response

    well crafted implication that you could back up what you’re saying, but why would you. I like it. You still suck, but, solid internet points collector.

    FringeTheory999 ,

    Because it’s idiotic and non-actionable. I didn’t down vote him though. I say go ahead and try it, see how far you get. John Deer has lots of money, it’s not like they wouldn’t act to stop you. They’ll sue you into oblivion and they won’t even need a case with merit to drive your little startup into the ground. They’ll just outspend you, not to mention they’ll have consolidated supply lines that you’ll need and that they will not share. The first rule of capitalism is that competition is not to be tolerated.

    tst123 ,
    @tst123@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s a very defeatist attitude

    FringeTheory999 ,

    If someone challenges you to a fist fight, don’t fist fight them. They want you to fist fight them because it gives them advantage. They’ve trained and prepared for fist fights their entire life. You are doing them a favor by fighting them by their rules. You have to fight them on your terms, playing your own game. Whatever your game is, that’s the way you have to face them. harrass, sabotage and disrupt. Failing that, guillotines are a very fun game indeed.

    taking on a business, with business is like wresting a pig. You’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it.

    InvertedParallax ,

    Your logic is: “Someone challenged me to a fist fight, so I declined, followed them home, and stabbed them and their family to death in their sleep, which makes me smart.”

    No, my friend, it makes you a fucking psychopath.

    FringeTheory999 ,

    That is not the scenario I described, but it is imaginative. I’ll give you that. Here, let an old chinese guy explain it to you…

    “If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

    Or as I like to paraphrase it “Don’t give anyone the fight they came looking for. Give them a different fight”.

    Now go be dumb somewhere else.

    InvertedParallax ,

    Wow, you just insulted me.

    I guess the only smart thing to do is to track you down and murder your whole family. In case you’re wondering, this is what an insane overreaction would look like.

    You’re a psychopath, this isn’t an actual war, and you’re not doing a good machiavelli.

    Even Von Clausewitz understood the continuum of conflict between politics and hostilities, you just seem like a neckbeard who wants to go mall ninja.

    FringeTheory999 ,

    k

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    Or as I like to paraphrase it “Don’t give anyone the fight they came looking for. Give them a different fight”.

    The problem you’re missing though is that you’re assuming there’s only one way of fighting business-to-business, straight head on. There are other ways.

    For example, a grassroots guerrilla warfare style business approach can be done, versus just a straight head-to-head combat, business-wise.

    That is not the scenario I described, but it is imaginative.

    Failing that, guillotines are a very fun game indeed.

    There’s no need to insinuate/promote actual violence. The center will not hold if everyone is trying to tear each other’s throats out.

    Now go be dumb somewhere else.

    And there’s no need to insult others just to promote yourself and your opinions, that just turns people off to listening to your ideas and what you’re trying to say.

    jampacked ,

    We’ve cancelled people for less.

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    We still need to do something though, so what would you suggest?

    Blimp7990 ,

    your definition of “something actionable” is:

    1. organize $0.5-1 bn in funding (<1 % of deere market cap, seemed reasonable given the cost per unit and r&d time to develop a whole new automotive platform)
    2. spend 5-10 years developing a new platform, and manufacturing to support anything remotely resembling the scope of american agriculture
    3. ???
    4. profit

    did i get that right?

    cause i think your definition of “something actionable” is a bit far-fetched.

    now its fair to say “well didn’t john deere do that?” and the answer is…no. not at all.

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    You’re incorrect with your item number one, as far as being able to take an invention from the drawing board to actual product ready to be sold.

    Under the right conditions it can be done for a lot less is what you’ve stated.

    Blimp7990 ,

    I am “incorrect” with an extreme hypothetical estimate?

    on the one hand, :o !!!

    on the other hand, where is your plan to replace john deere on, say, $150m (you said a lot less than 500m, so im picking 150 as ‘a lot less’)

    grayman ,

    Look up Edison Motors. A literal logger in Canada is beating out every truck company with investors. People are excited and lining up to buy them (logging companies anyway).

    What he’s doing with logging trucks can be done with tractors.

    FringeTheory999 ,

    You should look up all the companies that failed to do that, then look up survivorship bias.

    grayman ,

    What is it? 90% of companies fail in under 3 years?

    I get it. Still cool to see someone try and try well.

    steltek ,

    Wow, that’s a cool little company. Also, “Stealing Tesla’s Ideas”, ha.

    Related to the sibling comment, good ideas are rarely the whole story to a company’s success. Execution (and luck) matter.

    I’m going to need to read up more on them. The jump from “regular truck drivers who do repairs” to “so we put a locomotive drivetrain in our truck” is too big and I think it’s really the key to them getting off the ground.

    smellythief ,

    Your have to be rich yourself to get away with reading the rich.

    nomadjoanne ,

    Remove barriers to the creation of new firms.

    jampacked ,

    Sounds like a screamy no context statement in vague cannibalistic threat form, fed made.

    Diabolo96 ,

    Does this dude severely lack sleep or something ? I don’t understand why his eyes are like this.

    OceanSoap ,

    It’s not easy being the only man in the world fighting for right-to-repair laws. Every company he exposes, more life is drained from behind his eyes.

    Diabolo96 ,

    Soulless company used life steal.

    Joke aside , his work is really impressive but his fight is already lost if most people just consume ( unrelated , fuck printer companies ) and accept their fate. We need aware citizens and there’s not many of them. We’re kinda doomed.

    People accept DRMs and planned obsolescence as if they can’t fight them. They don’t know their strength and thzt if they decide to boycott these shitty companies they’d die.

    jjagaimo ,

    More like New York bureaucracy

    RubberElectrons ,
    @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

    Erm… That’s a thing, but lay a little more context on us.

    Hochul isn’t enough to sink the movement, at all. We’ve conquered a foothold into enemy territory (and I mean those words), it’s been sabotaged to be smaller than expected, but so it goes.

    jjagaimo ,

    I mean moreso on the life steal;

    He’s been dealing with NY screwing him for years after they misfiled his business - they didn’t merge his temp license into his actual license once he received it, so when he filed taxes it only applies to the real business license and not the temp license. Because he had the real business license, he no longer had access on his account to see the temp business license. That temp business license then started missing years of tax filings, and they put a lien on his business. Once again, he never knew because he didn’t have that business license on his account. Also, he did not get any mail because whoever fucked up merging the licenses in a spreadsheet did it to 400+ businesses and also replaced the address for all of them with some random PO box in another state. That meant that for years he’d been getting denied for loans to try and expand his business unlike other businesses in the same field, because of something he could never have known about. The only reason he did find out was when he decided to move his business to Texas for a number of other NY related reasons (e.g. them trying to stop him doing business for selling abandoned laptops because he didn’t register them even though he didn’t need to, not giving or responding to inquiries for permits, etc.) And only then once he sold his business and had 1M sitting in his bank account did the bank act nice and give him am agent who then relayed that there had been a lien for almost a decade

    RubberElectrons ,
    @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeesh. People wonder why us new Yorkers are such hard-asses out of the gate, then you see this kind of fuckery.

    Nobody protects us better than ourselves, especially when it comes to the shitbag NYPD.

    Thanks for the background on that, his shop wasn’t the only one getting the squeeze that I used to frequent. I mean hell, Chinatown is a shadow of it’s 1999 self.

    pragma ,
    @pragma@lemmy.world avatar

    probably a combination of fatigue, aging and genetics, there’s nothing wrong with it

    Diabolo96 , (edited )

    I said nothing about it being wrong. I genuinely wanted to know because he’s the only person I’ve ever seen with these constant fatigue eyes.

    obinice ,
    @obinice@lemmy.world avatar

    Check out Steve Mould on YouTube, his science explanation videos are actually fantastic, and his eyes look like he’s not slept in a week, permanently. Just how he looks, it’s so strange 😂

    Diabolo96 ,

    He does look like it but our friend above is on a whole another league. Lol

    bamboo ,

    He’s Batman and forgot to wipe off the eyeliner

    viking ,
    @viking@infosec.pub avatar

    Gotta be a raccoon somewhere down the family tree.

    Diabolo96 ,

    The only logical explanation.

    gamer ,

    Lol he actually made a video about it once because people kept asking him. He said that he went to a doctor and they said he was just ugly.

    I dont watch this guy’s videos that often, but coincidentally I saw that one.

    Diabolo96 ,

    Thanks.

    dansity ,

    Google FourTet he is a DJ/Producer and he is like Louis’ twin.

    Blimp7990 ,

    he looks normal to me. he looks like he is not wearing makeup while on a camera, but aside from nixon comparisons that isn’t a crime.

    Squander ,

    & :)

    Countmacula ,

    Fuck John Deere and their anti-self repair bs.

    The individuals using these machines don’t have time to wait for some tech to find the time to get to BFE, Kansas.

    Iwasondigg ,

    I’ve never had need for a tractor, but if I did, I wouldn’t buy their shit.

    andrew ,
    @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

    I’d be all about the Lamborghini tractors.

    “Yeah I drive a Lambo.”

    TimeSquirrel , (edited )
    @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

    Corporations would have us all subscribe to the oxygen supply if they could.

    Take apart all the things. Reverse engineer their shit. Create open alternatives. Fuck all these monsters. John Deere, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, everybody included.

    DocBlaze , (edited )

    Prime Oxygen - coming to Amazon prime by 2032!

    Zorque ,

    Spacebaaaaallllls! 🎶

    ihavenopeopleskills ,
    @ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social avatar

    Something on which we can all agree.

    demlet ,

    There’s a CEO in The Corporation (2003 documentary) who literally argues that everything should be monetized. Including air…

    Shortstack ,

    A canadian startup is already selling canned air.

    Folks in places like china are buying it up presumably due to the air pollution they have. This article says they already cleared 300k in sales and are expanding their product lines to offer ‘flavoured air’.

    cbc.ca/…/alberta-vitality-air-sales-update-bottle…

    Cethin ,

    To be fair, there is a use for it. If your at high altitudes, it may be needed. Hopefully no one should need it to deal with pollution though.

    Shortstack ,

    In this particular case its intended literally as portrayed in the Spaceballs movie which is what makes this whole thing appalling.

    But yeah, theres other use cases for bottled air.

    Maybe companies that manufacture and sell oxygen tanks can get in on the game by driving out of town 20 miles and bottling that air out there and marketing it as ‘Great Outdoors’ bottled air

    brianorca ,

    In areas with bad air, 20 miles is not “out of town.” But companies that bottle oxygen already have the equipment to purify the air even in the middle of that smog.

    Shortstack ,

    Meant as a tongue in cheek joke, but sure

    Erasmus ,
    @Erasmus@lemmy.world avatar

    Wow. Thought The Lorax was supposed to be a warning, not a guideline to go by.

    SSX ,
    @SSX@lemmy.world avatar

    Meanwhile, Valve: Here’s how you can rip apart our handheld computer, we don’t recommend it, but it’s yours so who gives a shit?

    TimeSquirrel ,
    @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

    Damn right, I haven't bought a console since the PS1 but I bought a Steam Deck just because of its hackability. I have plans for it beyond just gaming. Robotics control and FPV streaming is one thing I have in mind.

    Wrench ,

    Also Valve: we’ll make some proprietary components that have major failure points, and then not offer replacements for sale (and if we do, at exhorborant prices).

    I’m talking about their VR headsets.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love them as a company. But while they’re pushing new industries, hardware is an after thought.

    mojofrododojo ,
    @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world avatar

    proprietary components

    ridiculously stupid take. There are no open standards and commodity components for new inventions to adopt because the damned tech is new.

    absurd.

    Chozo ,

    There are no open standards and commodity components for new inventions to adopt because the damned tech is new.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Virtual_Reality

    There's been open source VR hardware/software since at least 2015. Development is slow, but still active.

    Wrench ,

    Where did I say I was complaining that they use proprietary components? My complaint is about the availability of said components, which is made much worse by how badly they wear.

    blackkn1ght ,

    Also, here’s our distribution platform where you can buy your games but have no physical medium, so if the game gets pulled you could lose access to it even though you won’t get your money back.

    Valve might be better, but they are far from perfect.

    AceFuzzLord ,

    If your favorite game gets pulled, so long as it’s not a requirement to be connected to the internet to use it, just pirate it. There is no better option if you purchased a game and it gets removed than to just flat out pirate it instead of buying a new copy, if you ask me. Just save your money in that case instead of going to another platform selling it.

    blackkn1ght ,

    Yes, but that misses the point. Mine was a criticism against the illusion of property Steam (and other platforms) create. I know i can pirate stuff, but still Valve has the power to delist or remove stuff from their platform at any time, without need to reimburse.

    It ain’t digital property, it’s just long term online renting.

    RubberElectrons ,
    @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

    You’re not wrong. But… these tough moments are where I tend to lean on Voltaire’s, “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” to paraphrase

    Blimp7990 ,

    why is it good that valve can take away a video game you paid for?

    Blimp7990 ,

    i wanted a separate message because my other comment was mostly just insulting you and this one isnt.

    letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is obviously not good, but doesn’t apply here. Valve won. The good (easy digital distribution) beat the bad. Guess what, goalposts have fucking moved. Valve is now the establishment, providing a restrictive drm-filled customer-harming system. Now they could still be the new good, and perhaps push the video game sweatshops into less restrictive, less drm-filled, less anti-consumer modes of operation. Baby steps without completely upending the system would be, once again, not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. But, like the vast majority of establishment organizations that have ever existed, thats not whats happening. They were the good, and now they are its enemy, but far from perfect.

    RubberElectrons ,
    @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

    Didn’t see any insulting part of either of your messages, so… All good I guess?

    Anyway, that saying doesn’t mean where things are should remain acceptable. You’re right that corporations (being made up of supposed humans) don’t like to improve or change once they’re making profit, we’ll collectively need to keep pushing for better. But that’s a given, and based on history, has always been the case.

    Still, I agree that pushing binary around beats physical media in theory. I don’t like the lack of control once you’ve got it, but as with all things, a company builds a taller wall, someone builds a taller ladder for lulz.

    Blimp7990 ,

    agreed in general

    Thoth19 ,

    Ah yes the games that I have stored on my PC that mostly don’t have DRM and that I can play in offline mode even while running another game on a different PC. Yep those are the ones that I can lose access to?

    tabular ,
    @tabular@lemmy.world avatar

    Do you have any games from Steam which you can play without Steam installed?

    Solarius ,

    Steam has DRM free games

    tabular ,
    @tabular@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m wondering if they, or you, happen to know some examples.

    Solarius ,

    …steampowered.com/…/38523697-DRM-FREE-GAMES/

    steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

    pcgamingwiki.com/…/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Stea…

    Pick your poison

    tabular ,
    @tabular@lemmy.world avatar

    Thanks

    Thoth19 ,

    Yup. Plenty. I haven’t proven it for every game I own but I know it works for Titan quest and other random ones I’ve tried.

    tabular ,
    @tabular@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s cool to know, thanks.

    mojofrododojo ,
    @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world avatar

    valve might be better, but are you actually whining about digital distribution? it’s saving gigatons of co2 emissions on physical delivery alone.

    PAY ATTENTION: PUTTING 1s AND 0s ON PLASTIC DISKS SO THEY CAN GO TO A STORE AND SIT ON A SHELF FOR MONTHS BEFORE SOMEONE BUYS THEM AND DRIVES THEM HOME IS A MIND NUMBINGLY STUPID WAY TO DISTRIBUTE 1s AND 0s.

    You want a physical copy? Kickstart the physical edition. Complaining that valve setup a digital distribution system that actually works is so fucking dumb it makes my brain hurt.

    rebelsimile ,

    You’re not wrong, but they also don’t make it easy to print those 1’s and 0’s to physical media once you have them.

    Blimp7990 ,

    but are you actually whining about digital distribution?

    they are clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, not

    arguing this is bad faith, ignorance, or naivety

    Womble ,

    Has a game on steam ever been withdrawn from people who have bought it? I’ve certainly heard of cases where a game gets pulled from the store and people can no longer buy it, but never where already purchased things have been revoked.

    In addition there are games on steam that you can just copy to make a backup of it and it will run fine (I know kerbal space program was like this for example). In those cases you have exactly the same amount of control as you would have for owning a disc, but with all the benefits of digital distribution.

    Perroboc ,

    In my experience this happened with a game called Rochard. It’s no longer for sale, but I can download it from Steam whenever I want.

    RogueBanana ,

    Steam games gets pulled all the time which is perfectly fine. They were talking about cases where the people who bought it would lose access to it, which I haven’t heard of either so I don’t really see why some are bashing steam for something they could do but haven’t done yet.

    mycatiskai ,

    They stopped carrying a few games to buy but because I own them I can still get them.

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    They’ve already stated that if they were to ever go out of business they would remove the DRM from their games so you can just download them and have them.

    AngryDemonoid , (edited )

    I already wanted a Steam Deck, but was saving up for one of the higher tiers. Then I found out how relatively easy it is to buy the cheap one and add an nvme drive. So, now my savings goal is a lot closer.

    EDIT: Fixed some typos

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Corporations would have us all subscribe to the oxygen supply if they could.

    Elon Musk’s X Mars Colony, coming in 2040.

    TimeSquirrel ,
    @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

    He watched Total Recall and thought "What a great idea!".

    Four_lights77 ,

    “Dammit Cohagen, give these people air!”

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