"i want to own what I buy"
Valve: "ok, you can also share it with a friend, like a physical copy"
"WHY CAN'T I PLAYYYYYY IF SOMEONE IS BORROWING MY SHITTTTTT"
When I was 15 I spent my allowance ($10) on a video of a guy who looks like Jesus asking my parents to give me $20 for video games
It worked. $10 profit. I graduated from Harvard business school or whatever
>system designed explicitly for 1080p gaming as stated by Valve themselves
>doesn't run game full speed when Linus Sex Tips runs game at 4x that resolution
>apparently this means it sucks
the steam machine discourse has devolved to basically a scott the woz clip
Anyone who can't see what is happening is blind.
1) Banning of the ability to have privacy with a cellphone
2) Banning of the ability to own a foreign router (which may not "comply" with future "required" legislation )
3) Identity checks at the OS, App Store and Service provider levels.
4) Ability to restrict individuals access to the internet, to given types of content, etc
5) Forced front and center "official" news media forced into online services.
6) Control over AI algorithms
7) Control over algorithms for visibility/sharing of content
8) Control over peoples cars (remote kill switches, embedded biometrics, automated reporting to LEO, inebriation checks).
9) Forced biometrics to login to computers, phones, etc
10) Digital ID to replace physical ID.
11) Digital cash to replace physical cash
12) Millions of biometrics and license place cameras + millions of "gun shot detection" systems
13) Banning of mobile applications and endpoint software the government deems wrong, dangerous, or incorrect, etc. (Tiktok, Kaspersky, etc)
14) AI being embedded in every processor, mobile device, desktop OS, etc.
15) Laws demanding "backdoored" encryption.
16) Laws demanding client side scanning.
17) Laws demanding control over speech deemed harmful, violent, dangerous, upsetting, etc
18) Charges and convictions against anyone releasing privacy focused software (tornado cash).
19) AI predictive policing and predictive dissent detection
20) Centralizing of all healthcare, psychological, financial, online, offline, travel and government records.
21) Forced biometrics collection to travel, attend public events, etc