They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....
Their strength comes from having zero management and all projects are born and lead by the devs themselves. As close to communism as you could get in a capitalistic world. It does come with some problems but they’re totally manageable - like having a strictly homogeneous workforce (which, one could argue, isn’t a bad thing)
I can still recall binge watching a show on Netflix only to find out mid-way they only had about half of the total seasons. So I paid for a service only to have to finish the show by torrenting it. Idiotic.
Linus does not fuck around (lemmy.one)
An oldie, but a goodie
I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."
They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....
It's canon now. And so is a certain image format. (lemmy.world)
What's the consensus on swearing here
Noticed not many people use curse words....
It's a simple world view (feddit.de)
How to keep a man (lemmy.world)
Life is a stormy river (i.imgflip.com)
The Turbo Lift is broken (pxscdn.com)
do you guys have this movie? (nerdica.net) en-gb
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