i support anything that hurts silicon valley

the moral high ground is worth fuck all if you're being lined up and shot

amazon are infamous tax dodgers

dodging tax and running sweat shops appears to be the limit of amazons evil, they dont seem to have a big horse in the control of culture race

the ones that need to be broken up first are the ones expected to widely interfere in elections and society

amazon isnt even in the top 10 for that

true

i wonder if post brexit theyll lower VAT, that tax is a pile of garbage

side note: i'd like to see epic taxes on offshored labour

offshored, not outsourced

you could delete facebook, twitter, instagram in their entirety overnight and little of value would be lost

deleting google overnight would pretty much destroy the internet, parts of it alone less so. ditto amazon, you have no idea how much DNS is handled by route 53

what does "heavy UX" even mean?

we had working window managers in the 80s.

web browser in the mid 90s

thats easy, x-window based IRC existed decades ago

MIRC for windows is pretty ancient

most UI/UX bloat is crap layered on crap so that theres a new product to sell or to support lavish websites that are barely usable

no, ive seen normal people struggle with (for example) windows 10

or the labyrinthine mess which is chrome now

all browsers are shit, currently - you have to pick the one broken in ways that bother you the least

the question is what you mean exactly by 'SV'

you couldnt nuke it without significant fallout, but if your focus is social media you absolutely could hit the big DELETE button right now and people would get by

youtube is much harder to replace, there are no viable alternatives

but twitter we could delete right this minute

name a viable youtube alternative

videos which are less watched can essentially die on bitchute

bitchute also lacks a working monetisation model, so killing youtube would kill anyone who creates video content for a living and cant afford to set up their own streaming server

it still works for some people

the cheap housing is all in the north where the jobs arent

the government dont at this time truly care about the housing problem

you could kill steam no problem without too much trouble

yes you can - you can absolutely blow that fucker away

web shops allowing downloads are not a new or complex thing

theyd get over it, the majority of gamers wouldnt even notice

it wouldnt be the end of the world by any means

you could very easily just use an alternative electronic software purchasing platform - in fact some game creators do anyway

no it wouldnt, thats ridiculous.

immediately all the big publishers would just stick up shop fronts and downloads

indies would switch to the many, many alternatives

steam just isnt that big of a deal, its just a convenience, and pc gaming is a minority anyway

you dont need a storefront launcher - lets take an example. i can go to sony and they have whats called a "web site", and i can buy vegas which is a big chunk of data, and it "downloads" and i can install it.

the value of steam is not the purchasing, its the marketplace, the shop window

the drm is a somewhat valid point - i depends how its done. calling home regularly is bullshit. license keys and an install time check are fine with me

the pc market is smaller than consoles, and both are dawrfed by mobile - that's why im fairly chilled out about someone deleting steam. people would find solutions, at the end of the day it you could easily build a web site publishers and indies could simply list titles with screenshots and shop links

right, so you agree it's easily replaceable? 😉

steam also doesnt feature really high in the sources of evil anyway

they don't support the commodore 64 either. fuck steam.

rolling incompatability is a feature of PC gaming, you just have to accept it

wut

i probably own/play more retro games than the entire discord server put together, and even i wouldnt go as far as 'new games r shit'

that's not actually true

at some point youre forced to leave old systems behind

try to buy a SHA1 SSL certificate so you can support clients that don't support SHA256. just see who will sell you one

steam are definitely not immune to political posturing - remember 'Hatred'?

ah i didnt realise theyd reinstated it

it was rubbish btw

im having problems now accessing websites from my XP laptop, i cant get a new browser for it

and yes i know my xp laptop is obsolete, that one is a special case as it runs eprom programmer software that doesnt work on anything newer

the trouble is steam library functionality dies as soon as theres no working client, so you can never delete anything. thats not steams fault, you should back up your machine

well im going to play a game now. at least this convo was more fun and less dumb than, for example, media matters articles on how tim pool is right wing

nothing touches leftivists for dumb takes.

im dreading windows 7 end of life

i dont think win10 will run on my main laptop, and win 10 is a dumpster fire anyway

i mean the out of support for OS updates EOL, not sure when that is

yeah im sure MS will force the issue soon

if it had already happened i wouldnt have pending security updates from microsoft

my laptop is 9 years old so not sure if win10 will even work on it. it was top of the range at the time and i cant find -anything- available with a screen as good

its the nvidia display hardware id worry about

the screen is a 17" matte 16:10. just try to find anything with that

thats why i never replaced the laptop, ive replaced a few parts here and there

is there a bootable dvd win10 'tester'?

shame. i suppose the only way to test it would be to sling a spare hard drive in

yeah id rather not break it, i have one of the old drives. its a raid supporting system and i replaced the twins when one died and put a single SSD in

if it cant take win 10 ill have to find linux alternatives for a few things and do that

ive been using linux so long i made my own distro back in the slackware days. i dont use it because i have to use speech recognition software and it behaves better on windows

dont use it at home*

that and the unholy hell which is current desktop offerings. what a damn mess

one of those times 'everyone doing their own thing' just hurts the platform

not really, my girlfriend is computer illiterate, i built her a desktop machine, she just uses firefox and some awful flash games

it just works

yes, that can be a thing

thats the worst analogy ive seen this week

you're likening applications to frameworks that support applications

it isn't even in the same ballpark.

no it isnt, you dont need game 'launchers' at all, you just require a way to download the installer. now if someone decided to write their own html version and you needed a special vendor specific browser to download it, then you'd have an analogy to work with. that isnt what i suggested or anyone would do though in the case of steam

and its a million miles away from basic shit like "oh, my entire windowing toolkit doesn't work"

only ones you bought via that proprietry delivery system. you can still buy games on dvd. you can still buy software from the makers on shop sites, etc. is steam your entire gaming life or something? its the only way you could come up with such a myopic analogy

definitely strayed into 'lol whatever', ill get back to my game

is it a cult?

im not on board with tomahawking iran, we really need to be pushing terminator robots to avoid damaging all the historic architecture they havent knocked down as blasphemyyet

i thought this iran spat had already burned itself out when trump decided not to waste money on a missile

ah

look at the full post

he went on to say how its good not to demonise people while demonising ukip in the very next sentence

it takes real skill to not realise you've been a massive hypocrite in the space of just 3 sentences

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-49056313

*from labour remainers

it's the perfect story of how ugly many remain backers are behaving

shes a remainer, in a leave area, being bullied for not supporting a second referendum