Right. It can’t be that you’re a proud consumer, because then you’d have to acknowledge your own contribution to the problem and criticize a culture you’re dependent on.

Can’t have that.

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Already rings an alarm bell, but thank you for sharing regardless.

Also, their website runs like shit. I don’t have much hope for them making a gaming OS that doesn’t, but time will tell.

Not really.

Replace “often” with “exceedingly rarely” and you’d be more accurate, but then you can just be describing websites that don’t work properly in general.

If you ever get involved in hacking, a lot and I mean a LOT of the tools are written in Python.

It can be a real PITA to set up a ton of different, standalone python programs, so kali linux comes with most of what people will need installed and ready to go.

Personal rant: Stop writing your programs in Python. If it’s meant to be distributed, use a compiled language.

I’m glad people bring this up.

Private companies are not intrinsically better than public ones, but at least they have the capacity to be.

Valve is one of the very few examples of a company that sees the value in working with customers, not against them. This would be impossible if Valve were publicly-traded.

SteamOS is better than, for example, macOS and Windows because of licenses.

Since you’re new (welcome!), I should let you in on a little secret: pretty much the entire free software movement is built around licensing. I know, it’s boring and seems insignificant. But the outcomes are profound.

Because SteamOS is built to function within the free software ecosystem, it means users are never beholden to the decisions of one centralized entity (usually the company that owns the software patents.)

If Valve ever decides to, say, include candy crush ads in SteamOS’ start menu (they’d have to make their own start menu, since right now SteamOS uses one that’s already made by the free software community), then users can choose to remove that part of the menu or replace the menu altogether without having to start from scratch.

For wealthy people who can always pay the “proprietary tax,” this might seem like a non-issue. Practically speaking, these people only want their software to work without hassle. They don’t care about the true cost of that software, such as only one entity being able to modify/distribute the software. It’s not until, say, photoshop starts charging a subscription (which they can always increase the price of) that people start to see the value in free software and the importance of licensing.

Not really. The “control mechanism” is already in place for games that rely on Steam’s infrastructure for their online functionality.

I’ve been saying for years: we need a dedicated gaming operating system.

I figure similar to educating people on how burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming, it will just take time and experience to educate people on the value of decentralization.

My brother had to be convinced to get the vaccine.

He’s legitimately removed (I’m trying to say “re-tar-ded”, but apparently it automatically saying “removed.” Seriously? We’re not allowed to say “re-tar-ded”, a completely accurate medical term?) and had to go to a special school because of it.

I think a lot of conservatives fall into this camp, but don’t realize it because of how poor social programs are in red states.

Trust me. I’ve been along live enough to recognize that if people don’t want to believe something, then they won’t.

If anything, this should tell us the trolls won.

Or at least have been more successful then they ever should have been.

Thankfully, phone updates are just a software problem. It’s sad we’ve reached this point, but there’s nothing really stopping us from updating phones like we update our computers.

People need to collectively have higher standards if they want businesses to meet those standards.

That’s not true. Businesses charge the most people are willing to pay.

I’m sorry you’ve been convinced that lowering your standards resulted in cheaper prices. It did not. It only resulted in worse products for us and higher profits for businesses.

The only way I see to solve it is to force vendors to release hardware specs and unlock bootloaders so you can install your own software on it.

Nah. Legislation to make it planned obsolescence illegal would be much more effective.

Seriously. People need to realize they should have a need before a product, not the other way around.

That’s because you’re a proud consumer who doesn’t realize how maximizing profit is the motivation for everything you’ve mentioned.

That’s not true.

All it takes are enough people getting burned by centralized products to see the value in decentralization.

As businesses get greedier and run out of corners to cut, they will continue to cannibalize their userbase until it becomes irrelevant.

I figure similar to educating people on how burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming, it will just take time and experience to educate people on the value of decentralization.

The biggest hurdle is getting people to understand that they are wrong and don’t know everything.

Bluesky is just for consumers who don’t know any better. I’ve been alive long enough to notice that there are people who need to be “sold something” in order to see value in it.

We should be promoting Mastodon which is federated.

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

Mozilla can’t stop people from modifying or distributing firefox without changing its license.

If they do change the license, then all the versions up to that point will still be fair game for modification and redistribution.

This is part of why copyleft is so important. Relying on proprietary software means there’s nothing we can do if the “owner” decides to change course.