HauntedCupcake @ HauntedCupcake @lemmy.world

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Yeah but if you call her a chonkin' land whale first, you can then turn around put your sunglasses on and power walk into the sunset 😎

If the CEO was lying to the investors that's akin to being lied to about the odds of a slot machine. It should totally be prosecutable.

At the same time I don't feel sorry for them, and think they should be last in line after all the other victims

Like literally every American company does. I'm not a tankie and I'm definitely not a fan of China, but this is one of those situations where the US government doesn't actually care about the issue, just that they're not the one doing it

I'm fairly sure the vouchers are sponsored, they're so low it's essentially advertising for Uber Eats

So CrowdStrike shouldn't allow real time threat protection? That's what caused the issue. It needs to update its threat library to do deal with any day 1 attacks. It's one of the main reasons it's used

Forced updates of an optional corporate anti-virus designed to immediately detect and distribute information on threats should be illegal?

Or is this just an unrelated comment?

I don't understand how so many people are taking "Program with level 0 access shipped faulty code that caused the OS to refuse to boot until a single file is removed" as "Windows bad lmao". Not that I disagree with Windows bad, just the over liberal application and acting like this is some sort of Linux win.

Give me kernel level access and I can make anything refuse to boot

Just to clarify, at different times and on certain specific distros. So the meme is still correct. It's not strange that a bug several months ago isn't affecting Linux at the same time as the Windows bug.

The Linux people can be annoying, but that's not an excuse to spread arguably false or irrelevant information

You have truly made me look a fool 🥲

I can love what I do as much as I want. But I'm going to become homeless and die if I don't get paid.

Lots of businesses use your logic to underpay people, like in the games industry and with Zoo Keepers, but at the end of the day they need something to stop them from dying

If all 50 people want to clean 1 toilet, 49 people are shit out of luck

Year 1066 problems just aren't as relevant in today's political and social climate. William of Orange totally would have had a sick sword themed gaming PC though

I've been playing with this thought for a while, and it's nice to see someone else express it

You can look it up yourself, I was just giving a worst case scenario

tbf, it's likely significantly cheaper than the 30% margin. I still think it's silly though

$0.025 per GB is the most expensive option on S3 I could find rounded up. It would be absolutely insane if Steam were paying those prices when they have their own servers. I also used 100GB game size as a large number, and $30 as a small price tag (for an 100GB game).

I was trying to be charitable with the numbers and it still came out pretty positive

By making it seem that Steam is raking in money and uh, money bad?

The case seems like such a reach. At worst it's an effective monopoly for devs, not consumers. Devs have a really hard time selling elsewhere.

That said, I love Steam and think it's genuinely one of the best companies out there. And whilst it's not great that they're so big, they aren't that big due to anti-competitive behaviour. It's quite the opposite. You can add non-Steam games to your library and use Steam features. The fucking Steam deck isn't locked down, and you can install non-Steam games. Just because Uplay wants to log me out every time I reboot doesn't mean Steam should be sued.

There are so many other companies more deserving of the lawsuit

Download. It's also rounded up. Storage is negligible compared to bandwidth, especially considering Steam's business model

No harm meant. I do think Steam is the golden example of a big business done right. All I'm saying is that there's room for improvement.

However do we know their full PNL/balance sheet?

We can make an educated guess. Amazon's S3 charges roughly $0.025 per GB, so an 100GB game would cost $2.50 for Steam to upload to a user. For a $30 game, that's around ~8.5% or just over 3 downloads before it's unprofitable.

Obviously Valve isn't paying consumer level S3 prices, and obviously users can download multiple times. But I would be extremely surprised if they didn't make a rather large margin on each sale