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[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, they wouldn't need to release those changes publicly.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 9 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Yeah, my attitude towards this is that if I post something, I voluntarily lose control of it. Post accordingly.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Phantasy Star IV on the Genesis retailed for $99 in the US in 1995. That's like a game being $200 now. I think Star Fox 64 was $80, but it came with a rumble pak at least.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then what are they doing here?

[–] bilb@lem.monster 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

It's an interesting point that without any IP law, GPL would be invalid and corporations could use and modify things like Lemmy without complying with the license.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It is gonna suck.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Aurora DX (which is based on Fedora atomic) has been the best distro I've used in a long time. Immutable OSes are great for general purpose desktop use! I set up a container for each development environment and never need to worry about conflicting dependencies anymore. But yeah, I wouldn't go with Steam OS for that. Steam works fine on pretty much any modern distro, so I don't see any obvious benefit to using it.

[–] bilb@lem.monster -2 points 3 weeks ago

You can read paywalled articles. You aren't considering that possibilty because you think you're entitled to everything for free, and you think your commentary is so valuable that it should always be made available to you because otherwise you can't participate? It isn't. If that's not your point, what is it?

We all block advirtisements, so if the pervasive attitude towards paying for written articles is hostile, what are we left with? I guess AI can replace human writers and that will be just fine.

[–] bilb@lem.monster -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

You're not really making a point. Of course, you may not be trying to.

[–] bilb@lem.monster -4 points 3 weeks ago

Not every post is for everyone. (And like Rachel said, not reading an article has not typically prevented people from entering a discussion and I don't think it ever will. That's often perfectly fine, someone can offer insight in response to what people are saying in the comments.) Imagine an interesting, long form article written by an independent writer whose livelihood depends on subscriptions. So not a news story with many alternatives, in other words. Why shouldn't someone link to it, and say "here's a great article, I recommend subscribing to this writer?"

[–] bilb@lem.monster 0 points 3 weeks ago

Seemed like an appropriate thing to post, but I guess it's not what this community wants. 😏

[–] bilb@lem.monster -2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

So a pretty unpopular opinion, huh?

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