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Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 1 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

Is Steam the “good guy” in all this? Of course not.

Too bad a lot of people, even here or in other threads, don't get it, so they willingly cheer for Valve simply because Tim Sweeney sucks.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 0 points 39 minutes ago

"I'm going to support billionaire #2 because billionaire #1 is worse" ~woelkchen

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases] in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm honestly not sure whether it's some huge astroturfing campaing or just people simply sucking off billionaires for no reason, but every time we see ANY criticism towards Valve or Gaben, most of the commenters flock in support of Valve. Underage gambling? Oh, who cares. Lootboxes? Well, that's okay. Taking 30% cut for games? Uh, actually, that's not a lot! Gaben owning a ton of yachts? Well, he's a good guy, so it's fine. And when Valve got forced by Australian court to create a refund policy, I saw a TON of comments saying it was actually wholesome valve who voluntarily decided to create it. But apparently they get a pass because they're smart enough to invest in a backup solution (Linux) in case Microsoft fucks them over.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases] in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

Hey, we don't talk about that here! Gaben is wholesome and even though he is a billionaire who owns a yacht company funded by lootboxes, he's one of the good ones!

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases] in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

People seem to forget that without courts of law, the steam refund policy wouldn't exist. Valve fought tooth and nail to be exempt from that.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" in c/technology@lemmy.world

Motorola is getting away with zero OS updates thanks to regulatory loophole in c/android@lemdro.id

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I see a lot of comments saying that it's a good thing but I feel like people needlessly hate new OS versions because of Windows versions and extrapolate it to Android too. Meanwhile, every new Android release is bringing a lot of great features, improving both privacy and security. Just to mention a few, we got:

-Private space

-better permission control

-Granular permissions for photo/video access in apps

-background apps restrictions

-a toggle to disable 2G

And probably a lot more.

With the recent "spotify hack", can one now easily get songs from that hack? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

Unless it's opus.

What should I expect switching to Fedora? in c/linux@lemmy.world

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago

Lack of some multimedia and bluetooth codecs out of the box. You will need a third party repo for those (or flatpak browser/video player)

I don't think we're ever getting the next one. in c/gaming@lemmy.world

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 9 points 23 hours ago

Todd is waiting for that fan made Skyrim UE5 remake so he can copy-paste it and ask for our money.

It's Fine in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just 5 more years and I might think of upgrading over my trusty old RX 580.

Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's this one:
https://lr.ptr.moe/r/Windows11/comments/1kgp7ar/cause_and_solution_to_windows_24h2_related/
i have win 11 on one of my laptops and I saw this issue. I do a lot of alt-tabbing and it made me go crazy because almost every time that happened, i'd have to minimize my browser and open it again or the webpage (and the browser ui) wouldn't render correctly.