GreenKnight23
@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 6 days ago:
how many people live in your home with the same birthday?
it’s a form of identification.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 6 days ago:
multiple states and now countries have bills and/or laws that will be enforced soon that require the age and/or identity of the user. you’re lying to yourself if you believe steam won’t be directly impacted by that and will be forced to comply.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 6 days ago:
they’re trying to beat the age verification laws to market because they know afterwards will be a shit show.
they know customers won’t be spending money on hardware that is ID nerfed.
if valve gets the hardware to market now, along with the software it’s more likely that people will buy the hardware later and flash older firmware later that doesn’t require ID verification.
- Comment on DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux 7 months ago:
ITT: entitled users who believe that FOSS devs deserve to work themselves to death so they can continue to illegally pirate games while simultaneously complain about licensing law.
it’s disgusting. doesn’t matter if he’s not a nice guy. he’s still right to set limits on what he is willing to support and it’s not Arch(and now all of Linux).
don’t like it? fork it and maintain a new version of it, call it “corkscrew” for the weird shape of ducks pebis.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 7 months ago:
that’s the whole point.
instead of doing an unlimited amount of things shittily, it will do a handful of things exceptionally well.
don’t buy a Ferrari to be your grocery car. don’t buy a Sebring to street race.