Note "published". Yes they use dedicated servers, but I'm not paying for ubishit or ea games that don't offer them for players to self-host.
I don't want any more competitive shooters with no dedicated server published. See this if institutional memory doesn't go that far, Dice fuckers: https://www.eurogamer.net/battlefield-keeping-dedicated-servers
Ads have become the new normal
I haven't seen an ad in ages on the internet. Also, ducks in the park are free.
What are you blathering about, it's never been cheaper or easier to have a personal computer than now, however you define it. You can go full paranoid from coreboot up or you can just get a steam deck and dock and have a nice arch in desktop mode. You can meaningfully use it with internet, Firefox with ublock origin, Signal to talk to your family without selling your soul or whatever. Is this written by a chatbot?
I use only Firefox / Fennec, but fuck Mozilla. The obscene amounts they paid their CEO for stupid decisions, their shitty Pocket acquisition, regressions such as saving page as pdf simply disappearing on mobile. Let that rotten corporation die, the code is open source, someone will do a Gecko browser.
in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win
Fuck off with that defeatist shit Mozilla, don't decide for us.
Pot protecting users from kettle
definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform
You are either paying the subscription or not, your inner states mean nothing to them or us.
Many older and/or casual gamers who've stopped following gaming and are living under the idiomatic rock would absolutely love a steam deck. And a significant portion of those would find it an upgrade over their laptop for Office and shit.
That's great news, I'm really digging the slow downfall.
I am noticing your post, but I file it as part of the "anecdotal generalizations" trend
I'm all for substantial and lulzy schadenfreude, but this is service notification made into a daily mail article, that's when one starts seeming obsessed with a site one doesn't use anymore