Because income sources like subscriptions and ads are stable, predictable, and that makes shareholders happy.

That’s definitely also a reason why they’re thinking about this system. If people sell them back their old phones or lease them, the second hand market will suffer immensely.

Putting the slightest chance of profits over the conservation of rare books is also pure malice in my book. With a layer of makeup.

I wasn’t aware that there was such an advanced compatibility layer! This is good news!

Then Solarpunk is a bad example :) And the compatibility coverage is higher than I thought. But, since it isn’t close to complete, especially as you said when it comes to esports titles, which are extremely popular, it’s still the honest route to mention that when recommending Linux gaming.

It might be enough to make me finally do the switch on my gaming PC, though.

The first category is still definitely under-covered by linux compatibility. If I look at the game I am currently playing, recently released, Solarpunk, I can’t run it on Linux. I didn’t have to look very far.

So, no, it is not only e-sports titles. It’s going in the right direction, but it’s still not enough for Linux to be a good recommendation for gaming over Windows.

If people want to switch to Linux for gaming, that’s fantastic. But the incessant “Don’t go for Windows, go for Linux” push without mentioning that you won’t be able to play all the same titles does piss me off.

I’m not talking about performance, I’m talking about compatibility. Still too many games simply need Windows. Until this is no longer an issue, linux is not a viable alternative to recommend to gamers, or at least not without mentioning that a good chunk of AAA games will not be playable.

But just like any community, Lemmy users are strongly opinionated, so I was expecting the irrational downvotes :)

Not yet a good option for gaming.

Winners until the very end!

No, just like for any other website, the browser would ask you for permission before enabling your camera.

(not an endorsement of the captcha)

Even if it was that simple, this is still a vulnerability that is basically a time bomb. The day that code would have been triggered would have been disastrous.

But this isn’t new, bug bounties tend to have terms as strict as they can to deny you the bounty while they obviously end up fixing issues that don’t qualify for the bounty. All because of reason X or Y that turns out to be a subjective interpretation of a vague enough eligibility requirement.

Ah! I have one of those too. It’s being retired soon, though, and banks using it are now do the switch to MasterCard for newly issued cards.

(Maestro is a MasterCard brand)

Edit: Nevermind, not every country is retiring Maestro as of today.

What provider is your debit card using? Is it not MasterCard or Visa? I’m genuinely curious, there are very few countries not duopolized by these two giants.

I don’t know where you’re from, but typically within the EU, especially in countries like Germany, Google and other mega corporations from the US don’t have that much sway (yet) within the justice system. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is validated in the near future by more impactful courts.

Definitely, but they also won’t miss the opportunity to become a major actor in the industry globally. Contrary to the US, they have in the past decade made a lot of moves to establish their influence globally.

The comment wasn’t comparing the companies, but the CEOs. Gabe doesn’t care about Steam users anymore than Zuck cares about Facebook and Instagram users.

Gamers are just biased because of how appealing Steam is with its sales and vast catalog.

They said, commenting on a social network.

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It’s not a bad idea as a pre-review. But it can’t be the whole review.

Yes. We even have critical companies in the supply chain of chip manufacturing based in Europe, so it’s definitely possible. It doesn’t even need to be as high performing as the big ones. I’d buy it anyway.

Well, yes, but there was also a lot of bullshit that we simply dont remember because it disappeared after the great purge that was the internet bubble pop