Paradoxvoid @ Paradoxvoid @aussie.zone

Canberra local, lover of all things geeky

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Ironically this is actually an example of Valve using its dominant marketshare to suppress rivals - Steam's ToS require devs to have equivalent pricing across all storefronts if they want to sell on Steam at all, so making it harder for cheaper storefront cuts to translate to lower prices to consumers, who might otherwise move to a different storefront.

Devs aren't going to drop Steam as a store, so they're stuck.

That may be so, but that's not the way that the initial tweet is using the term, and not the commonly understood definition.

I'm not denying that Valve as a whole have been a force for good in the PC gaming market, but it's pointless to argue semantics and make up definitions to better suit personal bias instead of debating the actual point that's being made.

People saying Steam doesn't have a monopoly because other stores exist, is the same as saying Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on PC Gaming because Mac and Linux exist. Technically true, but ultimately meaningless because its their market power that determines a monopoly, not whether there are other niche players.

While Valve and Steam have generally been a good player, and currently do offer the best product, they still wield an ungodly amount of influence over the PC gaming market space.

Epic is chasing that because they really want what Valve has, though no doubt they plan to speedrun the enshittification process as soon as they think it safe.

Wait... People are calling the emergency phone line after getting scammed? Wonder if that's just Zoomers being too dumb to avoid scams but not dumb enough to think an emergency phone call will help.

Can confirm that the first doesn't work on Alexandrite, but the second works as expected.

I think you're right and it's frontend-specific - I'm using Alexandrite and it shows perfectly, but I just checked the default Lemmy UI and it doesn't handle it properly either.

Tbh it sounds more and more like it's a kbin interaction problem rather than anything you're doing...

Not sure if there's any way for you to resolve it other than getting a Beehaw mod to update it for you.

If you look at the source between your post and the OP of this chain, you can see that they haven't got any special link formatting, but the links will all work correctly for any lemmy user no matter their instance - not sure if kbin handles it correctly.

e.g. [!destroy\_my\_game](https://programming.dev/c/destroy_my_game) vs !destroy_my_game@programming.dev

I suspect it's just a convenience thing, since a number of your links point to kbin.cafe search results.

I think Lemmy uses for instances because is used for users - e.g. I expect that @floppy@reabbitea.rs will automatically link to your profile on your instance (and link to your profile on any other viewer's instance - e.g. for me it should link to an aussie.zone URL).

It's probably a design decision to differentiate communities from users.

Since you're posting to a lemmy instance (beehaw), you should probably use the lemmy style - i.e. !community@instance - I don't think there's any need to create an explicit link since I think most UIs will format it for you.

Overwatch(2) - !overwatch2@lemmy.ml

Pretty sure it's a triple whammy - Steamworks, always online, and denuvo to top it off.

If we want authors to survive, we’ve got to stop assuming that authors’ intellectual labour is a public commodity.

The irony being that this is exactly what copyright was originally intended to facilitate - authors creating works to become public domain within a relatively short period of time.

The government only has no real need to remove it if they're happy with the status quo regarding inequality - they can still point to the (presumingly failed) body and say 'we tried' and not bother with something better.

Of course that's an option in theory - but in practice, referendums are incredibly expensive operations, not to mention generally damaging to public discourse of other issues.

Most Governments would prefer to just reduce any funding for the body down to the bare minimum required, and have it sit impotently to the side, rather than front up and say 'yeah nah, this didn't work, so here's another big money spend to fix the constitutional issue we created while we think of something else'.

and removed next term when the next quasi fascist gets elected.

Come on, this is just FUD, plain and simple.

If the voice does turn out to be a white elephant, then we should have the flexibility to remove it and try again with a different model. I'm 100% on board with the Government of the day legislating a body, but I don't believe it should be in the constution, and I doubt I'm the only one.

Using inflammatory language is not the way to try and convince people one way or the other.

You could use Google-assistant smart speakers to add things to specific non-Keep shopping lists - e.g. Any.Do and Bring are two that spring to mind. Google killed this integration a few months back to force users into using Keep if they wanted to retain this functionality.

I really wish they didn't have to kill third party integration with smart speakers for this. Google bait and switch at its finest.

The far cheaper Galaxy Tab A series is a near equivalent competitor for where Google is positioning its tablet (an at-home media device, rather than a highly-performant professional device), and for a lot of people, trading the considerably lower price for no docking station and some older specs is worthwhile.

Google need to either make the docking capability a lot more appealing, or reduce the price significantly because at the moment it sits squarely in the home entertainment sphere, but with a price tag creeping up to match professional-tier devices - why would someone pay the premium for what is effectively an ebook and Youtube device?

Agreed - they really just need to roll the 'Profile Switcher for Firefox' extension into base functionality - and this would have the benefit of not requiring an additional install to work.