Valve lets them add DRM after launch, you buy a game and play it for months or even years and then BAM! you have online DRM or anti-tamper killing mods or a flippin rootkit for crappy cross platform multiplayer that never works, or adding a damn third party launcher along with the Ubislop levels of derp and Bamco/ATLUS inability to eveer patch anything that’s actually wrong but “fix” cracked DRM instantly…

Until I can count on Steam to let me keep what I flippin’ paid for they are beyond sus, and my (Crap, 1337, what a game count.) “Game Industry Guardian” becomes a “Meh, nah, I’ll use your forums to ask the dev if they plan a GOG release and maybe redeem some Humble keys if they’re cheap enough to consider it a demo for a GOG purchase later.”

I ordered the original one, before it was ad subsidized, and they pushed an “updating” adding them to the ad-free device I paid many times the current price for.

After that I considered them a total loss.

And they’ll likely “forget” you are lifetime as often with them as they did with us early adopters who got it for cheap.

There’s a reason I use Jellyfin, now. Well, more than one.

Plex kept trying to charge me again, and every time I looked at it there was more clutter and spam being forced in front of my face by their “partners.”

Kodi on device, great interface especially when you are using touch, if I need remote access I swap to Jellyfin. There’s even plugins to sync between the two so your stats and history don;t get messed up by using both.

Well, crap, now I can’t remember.

They want all of your data in the cloud so they own it.

They want all their crap on your device, so you pay for it.

Oh, it’s not trusting them to see them relatively better.

Too late, they’re all in on the derp, as well.

I mean how many times is Chat Control going to come up? It’s their own KOSA, some “protect the children” lie by a bunch of Epstein Class pedos who want to track and profile everything about everyone.

They’re always “about to” but never seem to do it.

If one “side” fixed anything they would not only lose the backing of their corporate sponsors, they wouldn’t be able to point to the problem anymore and say they’ll fix it to round up some votes before promptly going back to ignoring or supporting what they campaigned on stopping.

I don’t plan on forgiving Nvidia or Micron or anyone else who sold us out to get in on the debt transfer scam that is propping up the US economy, the bubble will burst, and I hope they all go down in flames with it.

China makes great stuff, we just don’t see it here often, the cheap junk with “Made in China” stamped on it is disposable garbage or scam knock-offs of a better product from somewhere else.

I mean, that could have worked out, but instead they picked a reality TV star whose producers had to redecorate for the show because everything Trump builds looks gaudy and cheap and only knows how to make money by laundering theft and scams through failing businesses before writing them off and running.

Honestly?

I trust China more than I trust the US.

Distros from that joke stuff era are more user friendly than Windows 11.

Oh my god!

They killed Jeeves!

You’ve seen what a well oiled machine legislation is, no?

The problem with that is the corporations love to save a penny or two on hardware, no matter how much worse it makes the product, specifying one seems like a good way to make them just use that even if there is something better.

The one they were talking about months ago was specific, not really a fan of C, it’s a much more fragile connection than A. The extra bandwidth isn’t worth how often they fail compared to other connectors.

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I nuked my hard drive when they kept shoving more invasive idiocy, more sloppy shite, and a confluence of cloud crap into it.

They’re not going to win me back by integrating their overpriced subscription PS+ knock-off crap further into their joke of an OS.

The problem with this is they mandate something in the law and then there comes along a new and better option that nobody can use because there’s a stupid law…

Personally I still want to see more people do that contact connector that was in the dock of my Motorola Xoom.