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The 'Stop Killing Videogames' EU petition sits at 427k signatures out of 1m. The deadline to sign is 2025-07-31! If it is passed, game publishers will be forced to leave games in an playable state. in c/[email protected]
Anyone know how to hide this? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Yes, these additional settings are turned on by default. If you find they interfere with your browser experience you can turn them off to bring things back to near-stock firefox.

Anyone know how to hide this? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not the same thing as recommending switching to Linux from windows because LibreWolf is an extension of the existing Firefox code. I think it's more akin to downloading an extension or upgrading to windows plus, you don't lose or have to adapt to anything in the changeover.

Anyone know how to hide this? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (24 children)

I now use Librewolf, a free to use fork of firefox and doesn't have these popups. It's otherwise exactly the same as the stock firefox experience (including extensions), but the Mozilla premium services are now opt in.

violently cries and sobs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

If someone says they're not interested in dating Republicans, it doesn't mean they are any better than the average person at picking one out from a crowd.

Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Valve created a fantastic entertainment product that people voluntarily choose to use. Why would you want to turn something people already love into something completely different? Counterproductive - especially when direct distribution is essentially free and universally accessible.

The Romans couldn't build a pyramid. Checkmate, archaeologists. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The pyramids were built over two thousand years before the coliseum. Saying they are of the same time period is like claiming the Eiffel tower and the coliseum are of the same period too!

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Question about collective ownership (lemmy.world)
 

Suppose I have studied for years to become a pastry chef. I set up my own bakery, investing my time, energy, and labour into procuring equipment and building up a reputation as a delicious place to eat. I run the entire operation myself as the sole worker. Eventually, after years of turmoil, word of my exceptional pastries spreads and my bakery becomes the number one spot in town. Soon there's a line up around the block, long enough that I have to turn away customers on the regular.

Not wanting to have to send people home hungry, I decide that having someone to wash my dishes and somebody to tend to the counter would buy me enough time to focus on the main reason people come to my shop: my delicious pastries.

I do, however, have an issue. I worked really hard to build my bakery up to where it is today, and don't want to have to give up ownership to the two people I want to bring onboard. They didn't put in any effort into building up my bakery, so why should they have an equal democratic say over how it's run?

Is there a way I can bring on help without having to give away control of my buisness?

Furthermore, what's to stop the two new workers from democratically voting me out of the operation, keeping the store, name, brand, and equipment for themselves?

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Question about ownership of the means of production (lemmy.world)
 

Howdy! I'm new here and was hoping someone might have some insight to a question I've been thinking about for a while:

If I saved up my money and bought a tractor, would it be permissible/ethical to charge others to use it when I didn't need it?

This seems awfully similar to owning the means of production. What if I instead offered to plow their fields for them instead, driving the tractor myself and negotiating fair compensation in exchange?

Sorry if this is basic stuff I'm still learning. 🙏

Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I'm not comfortable with the idea of the government dictating what developers must do with their games. There are legitimate legal, financial, and artistic reasons they may not want to be forced to distribute in that way.

I think that it's the responsibility of consumers to make sure they have the level of ownership over the games they like. I personally don't really like to invest into live service games for this reason, but I do enjoy playing them on occasion and appreciate that they're free to play and receive constant updates. Forcing the Deves to open source their code at the end of the game's life cycle would jeopardize their vision and our ability to play games like them.