It wasn’t my answer, but I’ll play the part.

I agree with you in cases where individual change is hard, costly and has barely any influence on the big picture (like your “individual CO2 footprint”). But in this case the individual solution is to quit using a terrible browser and install a free extension in the new one, and it has all the impact it needs because it makes the problem go away. I can’t take anybody seriously who will willingly put themselves through youtube ads when they are this easily avoided.

The problem stays the same, why should the answer change?

and they’re used to subsidize lower prices

Nothing is subsidized here (in the sense that Sony could not offer those lower prices to other people if some didn’t pay more ). If that were true, Sony would still make more money if they just didn’t make these lower priced sales. No corporation will do that, unless they are amazon and want to buy market share.

This means, Sony could offer the lower price to everyone and still make a profit. They are just trying to squeeze everybody for the highest amount they can get away with.

What does it mean? To me it’s like words pulled randomly out of a hat. (i.e. the emperor has no clothes on.)

The reason is rich people.

Which programmer, game designer, graphics designer, voice actor, musician or what have you is paid how much more because they added denuvo? After the fact, mind you, so all the contracts and wages were agreed long ago.

Who exactly “wins” anything here?

The dev pay for denuvo licenses an doesn’t gain enough sales to make up for it - lose.

The pirate waits longer to play the game - lose.

The paying customer gets an inferior product - lose.

In a world were plenty of games without denuvo are doing just fine? Fuck yeah I blame the publisher/dev.

He also did not show the troubleshooting afterwards or even testing another distro which can be done very quickly, and declared that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.

Because he had people waiting for him in a game lobby (that’s the thing I’d actually give him shit for, trying out a new OS at a LAN) and decided to fall back to a known working OS to be able to get on with his day. And that’s exactly what many average users would do in a similar situation (not necessarily sitting at a LAN but maybe urgently needing to get on with productive task x y or z instead of troubleshooting).

He also did not declare “that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.”, this is a multi part series and he already said he tried different distros afterwards.

I really hope he realises how not for his use case it is

Installing a deck verified game with a gold protondb rating and playing it?

What’s the difference between watching him struggle with popos or having my mother do the same?

I can’t watch your mom on youtube? Average windows users will want to know if they can make the switch with their average windows user knowledge and approach, that’s valuable information to them.

If he used all these special resources he has, that would be akin to those “I built this super awesome table from scrap wood I found behind my local supermarket” videos that fail to mention they also used the 100.000 bucks worth of tools in their professional woodworking shop. And people would then rightfully complain about that.

And a new user trying to pick a distro would know and understand that … how? Because that’s the experience he’s trying to emulate.

I frequently see pop os recommended on lemmy too, so please don’t act like it’s obviously some outrageously silly choice.

It’s not a lot of steps from this to prayers to the machine spirit. Just saying.

If I were a console vendor and I were worried about the PC as a competing platform, I’d think that I’d try to emphasize my competitive multiplayer games, not single-player games.

Step one: Don’t charge extra for online play.

You can pay 6€ for shipping today or help amazon finally become the monopolist, and then tomorrow your batteries will just cost 10€.

Another way is to ask at the next electronics store as I’m sure they can order them with their next routine shipment.

If you know that you explicitly disagree with somebody on certain aspects, their opinion will be just as useful to you as if you liked exactly what they like.

Weird idea but bear with me: They could, and this will shock some of you, I hope you’re sitting in a safe position … They could revive Starcraft as fucking Starcraft!

Planned economy is not a defining feature of communism, nor is it exclusive to it.

governed by it’s native Population

It’s governed by the CCP that violently suppresses all dissent.

with a public policy centered on general social welfare.

I’m sure the people living in huts they just bulldoze to build highways will agree.

Communism would be a classless society free from rulers. I see neither condition fulfilled.

An important defining feature is ownership of the means of production by the workers (not the authoritarian single party government that claims to speak for them and tolerates no dissent). There literally can be no billionaire company owner under communism.

I’m still waiting for a new terror from the deep.