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Considering Meta has their entire empire built on the pilfered goods stolen from Valve and then sold to Facebook (at the time) by Palmer Luckey, I’m glad but also surprised Valve didn’t say fuck it and throw in the towel. But then again, Steam exists because Gabe was unhappy with how Microsoft was treating him, so maybe success from spite is a hidden part of their core DNA
To be clear, I am not arguing in favor of what I suggested. I am vehemently against it. But I have worked with the technology enough in a professional setting to know what it is capable of and how it can (and I have) used it. I am afraid of what I am seeing as a possible (probable?) future.
Thats not even what’s happening. If what theyre saying is true, Valve is dictating prices on Steam based on third-party stores (they are very related if they are competitors and selling the same products.)
Don’t spin the narrative.
What doesn’t make sense is that these companies want to force Valve to be a free advertising and leads service for them, and force them to help funnel their own customers away by using anti-consumer practices (the third party company being the one using anti competitive practices).
I’ve seen some law nerds explain it recently as:
De-jure monopoly=the one we all think of (the bad one). This comes about through dirty tactics, anti-consumer practices, and backstabbing.
De-facto monopoly=the one Valve is (and not illegal). This comes about naturally as customers independently choose one company over all others for nothing other than they like them better.
Librewolf is pretty legit.
So hey uh… Meshtastic is pretty cool
If an AI can tell what’s in a picture (which is a series of pixel data), it can certainly reconstruct gcode into an “image.” Ive used it at work for similar tasks.
Cylinders obviously are too generic, but there are parts that are a lot more specific and could be fingerprinted.
And now two! Touchpads work like a dream for me
Not sure how your clipboard is broken, it works using KDE connect. DeskFlow may need to work on implementing the Wayland bits.
You’re gonna hate this, but… AI can literally do it, and for the large models it’s terrifying how accurate they are. You will argue that your little ESP32 powered reprap or klipper or whatever printer can’t handle it, to which regulators will go ok then, either the printer has to call out to a service with an http request to upload the gcode every time it wants to print anything, or your slicer has to do it (and we dont care that it’s open source, it’s illegal to operate if it doesnt make the call and you’re getting fines or jail time if you get caught).
This is what AI was built for 😟
EDIT:
In case it isn’t abundantly clear, I am not in favor of what I just described. I know that it is possible though and know how to architect exactly these mechanisms. If I can build them, so can they. (I won’t, of course, that goes against everything I stand for).
I wish GOG supported Linux at the level Valve does. On paper it sounds like a match made in heaven. But they don’t, and the strange things they do to the executables of old games to preserve them makes them difficult to get running under wine and proton smoothly.
Not liking something “just because” is also a valid argument to not like something. You are not required to like anything and your reasoning is your own.
You may be less fun at parties for not liking lots of things, however.
The title said “coming,” not “came”
I may start keeping a cheap device that lives in a Faraday cage that obeys the corporate rules and only comes out when I absolutely need it, and then a graphene device of sorts as my daily driver. Ive almost completely de-googled otherwise.
There’s nothing weird about being against metastacizing cancer.
This was my exact experience and the exact same reason I won’t be repeating it for my family moving forward.
You sound very twelve.
Ok, that makes cents.
There are no units on that website and I’ve only seen gas stations list prices in the dollars-and-cents format ($5.99 instead of 599¢).
Looking at it a bit closer, you’re paying $1.79AUD/litre.
To compare to the U.S. (where the OP’s signpost is clipped from in the meme), $1.00AUD trades for $0.72USD as of this writing, so $1.79AUD would be $1.29USD. Then, to get from litres to gallons, we see that there are ~3.79 litres in a gallon. Multiply $1.29 by 3.79 and you get 4.8891, or $4.89USD per gallon, which is about on track with what we are paying here in some states, maybe a little less. I am open to correction on this math.
The answer is and should always be “never” if the possibility of using FOSS is available either currently or by hard work to bring it into existence - however, there are cases where some software is not available in any other capacity and offers a service that is otherwise locked down. So we deal with the necessary evils where we must until we no longer have to.