It’s 2026. An experimental version of Steam’s runtime container – a very normal thing for your software to have – is now 64-bit. This is worthy of praise somehow for a multibillion-dollar corporation whose only real job is to do bare minimum maintenance of its storefront and rake in 30% of profits from its monopoly.
There’s gonna be people who don’t know why containers break iso27002 and think they’re the bees knees just lashing out for this affront to their favourite toy, dude. Hunker down.
Are you butthurt that I called it a monopoly because it is one? Its status as a “benevolent monopoly” doesn’t make it not a monopoly; its competitors’ incompetence doesn’t make it not a monopoly; competition existing doesn’t make it not a monopoly; that it’s not an illegal monopoly doesn’t make it not a monopoly.
Its incredibly stable market share, which is deeply entrenched because you don’t own the games you buy there and can’t bring them elsewhere.
The point of pointing out that Valve is a monopoly is that they have functionally no real competition to worry about; they have all the leeway in the world to improve their client, so I’m not going to clap like a seal when the container for the software gets 64-bit support in the year of our lord 2026.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s 2026. An experimental version of Steam’s runtime container – a very normal thing for your software to have – is now 64-bit. This is worthy of praise somehow for a multibillion-dollar corporation whose only real job is to do bare minimum maintenance of its storefront and rake in 30% of profits from its monopoly.
Glad to know where the bar is.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
What an incredibly weird complaint
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That it’s weird for Valve’s client to be running inside a container?
My other software isn’t containerized that I know of. I don’t run Firefox in Docker.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
There’s gonna be people who don’t know why containers break iso27002 and think they’re the bees knees just lashing out for this affront to their favourite toy, dude. Hunker down.
Retail4068@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Holy fuck you nerds will fund ANYTHING to screech about.
grue@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
👆Why are you booing him? He’s right!
I mean, good for Valve for finally making progress on 64-bit, but it really is kinda absurd that it’s taken this long.
warmaster@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Name another gaming company that has been as good and influential.
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Good at getting people hooked on gambling?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Are you butthurt that I called it a monopoly because it is one? Its status as a “benevolent monopoly” doesn’t make it not a monopoly; its competitors’ incompetence doesn’t make it not a monopoly; competition existing doesn’t make it not a monopoly; that it’s not an illegal monopoly doesn’t make it not a monopoly.
Its incredibly stable market share, which is deeply entrenched because you don’t own the games you buy there and can’t bring them elsewhere.
The point of pointing out that Valve is a monopoly is that they have functionally no real competition to worry about; they have all the leeway in the world to improve their client, so I’m not going to clap like a seal when the container for the software gets 64-bit support in the year of our lord 2026.