The equivalent of that $300 Dell in 10 years is even more likely to be locked down. Open hardware will become more and more niche, and therefore even more expensive comparatively. This is where the entire industry seems to be going.
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[edit] Chłopczęta Wszechpolskie chyba zapiekło: https://www.donald.pl/artykuly/UYJxudxc/mlodziez-wszechpolska-poprawila-swoj-slynny-baner-i-przyznala-ze-mezczyzni-tez-sa-odpowiedzialni-za-katastrofe-demograficzna
To nie jest plakat MW - ich plakat przenosił winę na kobiety decydujące się na psa zamiast dziecka. Ta wersja to żart z tego, że do zrobienia dziecka typowo potrzeba dwóch osób.
Multiple online casinos for underage customers that he runs disagree.
Why does it have to? Valve isn’t known for maintaining legacy software. You assume your software will run forever as-is but you can see how that looks like in accelerated timeline in the case of Valve games on Macs.
It’s pretty hard to pirate on iOS (and it will be hard on Android too eventually). Their plan is to do this gradually, definitely not in a single generation of hardware. They’ll have pretty strong arguments for locking down the bootloader (kernel level anti-cheat for games like CoD or Valorant) or just plain locking Steam to supported platforms to lock you out of other OSs first.
Not yet but they hold you by the balls because you ~~buy~~ license most of your games through Steam. Once they’re entrenched enough they can do whatever. Android was a very open platform in the beginning, now it’s almost iOS. You can fork Android / SteamOS but without Play Store / Steam consumers aren’t that interested.
You missed the part where Android wanted to lock people out of installing their own apps. They postponed it for now due to pressure but it will happen eventually. Also the part where bootloaders lock you out of changing OS. This thing is possible when you vendor lock people in a vertically integrated system and people here are completely oblivious to the trap they’re walking into because they think Valve will be forever cool.
Last time we started pretending highborn don’t matter we didn’t strip them out of their wealth, which means they continue to hold unearned influence.
There’s been definitely way more people running custom roms 10 years ago. Xiaomi got a start with a custom rom.
What stops Windows? Business consumers paying for the OS and the fact that they don’t have any successful app store. What stops Valve?
Valve, unlike Dell, has the power to vertically integrate an ecosystem. They own an app store with de facto monopoly over PC gaming. If Valve says that starting 2030 you can only run Steam on Windows and their own locked down OS (and enforce that via bootloader or some other measure) what can you do about it? You only licensed games from them, never bought them.