Well, the opposite of what we today refer to as the Epstein’s list, not really the opposite of what was referred to as his list before 2019.

Penniless pennyless bastards!

It’s just children from lower-income households …

I think so too, but they are a fairly small company/group with a stable (50+%) owner & basically don’t bother with much (neither publisher or consumer side). Eg GOG is smaller but fights DRM a lot more actively (and achieving DRM-free deals even before Steam).

I hope before Gabe goes Gaben’t he makes Valve a proper nonprofit - bcs the service they offer is like a mass infrastructure thing (which are always scary).

As to why devs think they have a monopoly - it’s hard to succeeded without Steam, especially if you arent a AAA studio (and even a small mistake on Steam part for their game’s visibility on Steam Store can cost them everything), and Steam isn’t really fighting over devs to offer them a better deal than the competition, it’s the other way around (it’s clear who has the power).

So yes, they have quite a fair bit of monopoly.
Modern, especially tech, monopolies aren’t a single-provider-locked-in type of thing, look at Google, they hold a monopoly over so many markets without those prerequisites. And they fought, shaped the markets intentionally to eventually get to that position (that’s why they were valued that high even before the revenue kicked in).

It’s actually Voodoos that I speak of, I had have two Voodoo 2s (12MB versions) in SLI.

I was 1337 like that back in the day, buying top of the line graphic accelerators (I didn’t have that much money, it’s just that gfx cards didn’t cost as much as a cheap but perfectly usable car).

Love is the way.

Still not a revolution tho.

Drivers.
Drivers might be closed sauce.

I’m still sad about 3dfx :(

(EVGA too)

I absolutely know, but it still hurts that you actively communicated that to me.

Yeah, my multimonitor experience is better under x11, especially gaming (also Lutris has more features for x11 too in that regard). I only use it on that machine tho.

Yeah, I didn’t/don’t disagree with the word, it’s just that it entirely depends on the point of view (as opposed to more technical terms).

All regimes, “good” or “bad” have oppositions, folk were warning about Hitler way before rising to power, and indeed there were always fighters against him. But same as with “occupation” determining if those are “domestic terrorists” or “freedom fighters” (also dubious terms in their own) depends on your side/your views.

Hippies pretesting war (an actual occupation) in Vietnam got so demonized that there are still official (bs) policies in place in USA from that era.
USA citizens had nothing to benefit from all the anti-hippie propaganda, it was all for war profiteering, so in a sense that the gov wasn’t working for the people, they were occupied.

Native Americans fighting against occupation & genocide are still branded as savages that attacked unprovoked. But had they won (somehow), that wouldn’t be the case. Much like German “terrorists” that fought the regime aren’t seen as that anyone (or even peaceful activists aren’t seen as traitors anymore, eg the famous wiki/Sophie_Scholl).

A lot of demonstrations get branded that way too (eg against big oil). And get met with force.
That def feels like a justification that someone occupied the country/government.

A sort of occupation is also when politicians of a nation are hijacked by interests groups (megacorps, powerful geopolitical players, some cabal).
And you get situations where citizens overwhelmingly support an issue (75+%) but no politicians won’ impellent it.

Will they warn about Play Services?
(In case they are even enabled :D.)

Soon - legally mandated predatory mortgages for anyone slightly above the poverty line!

/s

I was always thirsty for knowledge.

But you retain “enough” by understanding basic concepts* for later, if needed, to learn more & even get a proper skill out of it.

But it’s pointless to learn stuff you don’t get just got grades. Well, unless to train memory, but there are better ways for that.

(*depth of basic concepts can be pretty significant, I don’t mean that just as a superficial knowledge of a general subject)

He’s 81 and in for reelection in 2030?
(Last year he won over two other candidates like 15 years younger than him, still over retirement age.)

Who are his sponsors/who does he work for?
Was it about air travel?

If Olympic games/basketball/hockey/etc would be chosen by vote USA teams would all be over 80 probably.

I completely agree!

What I was saying was way more basic/direct/strict meaning, but if you extend the terms into systems like that (I would say that eg Marxism is a bit wider term than communism), which makes sense, you are completely right.

How does communism (communal ownership) define what is produced?

Or capitalism or feudalism for that matter.

You could have democratic production under feudalism, but the land is owned by one person.
And you can have dictatorship in communism dictating what is produced (without any private capital, so not capitalism).

Afaik socialism (or even eg militarism?) is a direction taken or affected by government policy, not by ownership.

That’s why I said that propaganda deliberately mixed our understanding of economic systems & systems of government.

Yes, I agree with that sort of caution, but the tech giants have already been successful (MS in particular with their OneDrive locations).

A full revolt is a strong word, but perhaps a campaign to help EU bureaucratic workers (idk, the ones working professionally on legislative docs that don’t have political jobs - so eg various review agencies) bcs they are doing amazing job.

And with public understanding why privacy & digital ownership rules matter we make their jobs easier (otherwise they are between a loud lobby & a quiet public trying to do their best for the public).