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Steve Dice @ stevedice @sh.itjust.works
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Which default software do you replace after you install your distro?

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  • Yeah, I just meant I switch the default from Kate to KWrite

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • So I was wrong about that one, the point still stands, specially because key resellers are also affected by Valve's policy. Why are you being so intentionally obtuse?

    • Yule Tidings!

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    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Are you intentionally missing the point? Legitimate or not, it's a 3rd party seller that can't offer the same protections an official store where the dev chooses to list the game does. Just to name an example, if you even see a key from Humble Bundle, you lose the right to refund. If not for Valve's predatory policies, you could just buy the game at a lower price from Epic and enjoy the exact same refund policy that Steam has.

    • TIL that there is no strict definition of a continent

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  • Yeah, I'm just being pedantic.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Price fixing is extremely anti-consumer. They're not ensuring the price is lower on Steam, they're ensuring that it's higher everywhere else. Having a higher price than competing stores doesn't have to steer people away from your own if you offer a better service but Valve isn't willing to do that so they screw the consumer instead.

    • TIL that there is no strict definition of a continent

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  • Yeah, that's my point. Being part of the continent is something that almost never comes up. We call ourselves whatever we are and it's never "Americanos".

    • Which default software do you replace after you install your distro?

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  • I don't use calc for much more than basic calculations. Even speedcrunch was too much for my taste. Honestly, I'd use bc if it wasn't for the complicated syntax.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • The store offers the downloads on the links you provided, that's not the point. The point is that if I, as a consumer, want to get a game cheaper than it's listed in Steam, I have to find a reseller to sell me a key that might not work or even get me banned (see G2A) and has none of the protections that come with buying from an official store. If not for Valve's anti-consumer policy, I could just go to Epic and buy it cheaper there because they take a smaller cut.

    • TIL that there is no strict definition of a continent

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  • Mostly right but nobody in Latinamerica refers to themselves as American in any language. It would be weird.

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  • Yes, but they technically count as "the Caribbean"

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  • North America is entirely defined by the NAFTA. Geography is mostly political.

    • TIL that there is no strict definition of a continent

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  • If you're gonna group them like that, there's no Americas, it's America.

    • Which default software do you replace after you install your distro?

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    1. VLC with SMPlayer. I don't understand why they keep shipping VLC as default. It sucks.
    2. Kate with KWrite.
    3. Nano with Vim in *buntu variants
    4. Elisa, Rhythmbox, etc. with Strawberry. Although I mostly just use Spotify nowadays.
    5. Calculator with calc.

    Everything else works just fine, unless the distro made an insane choice like having XTerm as the default terminal emulator.

    • FRAG OUT!

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  • I was terrified when they shipped out children toys with a link to a porn site printed on them. Ok, maybe I wasn't so much terrified as I was amused.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • I'm saying if they didn't have their predatory anti-consumer policy and a developer tries to list a game for a much higher price on Steam than they do on other stores, they would remove the game from the store and probably ban the developer. It has nothing to do with removing access to user's games from their library.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Those are 3rd party resellers. How many times can one man miss the same point?

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • I think you confused "[a developer] would have their game removed" with Steam removing games from people's libraries. Nobody is talking about that.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Steam also reserves the right to remove a game for any reason. If a developer does that they would have their game removed and probably receive a ban. There's no reason for that policy other than price fixing to keep consumers from making an informed decision. Stop defending the multibillion dollar company.

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  • No, they're listing them on Steam and then 3rd parties are reselling the keys. Devs still can't list their games on other stores at a lower price. This is the 3rd time I say this, let's see if you get it this time.