This wont hold because you don’t own anything using steam. Its a licensing contract that allows you to download and use the software they provide on their servers.

Use it upside down for a while? May need some time though.

I want to be an inventor but i never though of it as a job, just what i wanted to do.

I am in IT now and tinkering on my homelab and customised linux feel close enough. The main essence i needed seem to be simple exercising a flow of creative ideas.

Thats what copyleft licensing is for and why physical things are increasingly using gpl and other open software licenses.

Thats a good sign actually.

People have been sharing things in storage drives for decades. Fmhy has a list of some big ones, usually for books.

Traditionally i believe these were not advertised and more underground, a way to easily share with friends.

You didn’t really want them easily found and traceable to you though but that is what changed.

Piracy has become so normalised that people take it for granted that there are no legal risks involved. Normalising piracy is the first step for the ideals of software freedom to flourish.

After all what is a digital file if not a bunch of writing that instructs the computer to draw pixels on your screen. You wouldn’t copyright the words to ask a human to make a drawing about a copyrighted something, so why do it for a computer?

That is the world we live in, sure capitalism is dominant but you can’t simply dismiss open technology movement as non existent just because you aren’t aware of them.

Have a few:

Free beer, https://freebeer.org/blog/

Open bikes, https://openbike.cc/download/

Open source ecology, https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Wikihouse, https://www.wikihouse.cc/

“Volvo has a history with the modern three-point safety belt, which was perfected by in-house engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959 before the patent was shared with the world.”

This story is a famous example of seemingly putting human safety before personal profit.

In a direct comparison this innovation on it is worse because it lacks the defining feature that makes it truly applaudable.

The original 3 point seatbelt patent would also expire after 20 years but they (presumably) saw the amount of people they could save and chose not to wait.

Though you might have reasonable argument on corporate motivation that is commonly accepted i personally am in very strong disagreement with the notion that profit incentives are anything but harmful.

In my own reasoning and experience i found that a desire for profit or personal success sabotage the effective value of any potential invention.

The objective value of a product that i attempt to perceive is directly correlated to how many living beings can successfully use it without losing value in return.

For example the most advanced designer cars that exist that can only the super rich can buy… those are complete worthless junk and leaching valuable assets and energy from our planet trown in the proverbial bin.

A text file that explains in detail how to fix and maintain a generic bike written by some passionate nerd and freely available online has in comparison uncountable value.

Chances are a for profit product is also build needlessly complex just to stifle future competition (Apple likes that one also) or intentionally flawed so a new later patent can save the day and sustain the practical monopoly on it. If you look around you see this everywhere.

I see the same trends in digital development. Closed source only exist to exploit people who have not learned how to property own and maintain a computer and to block off ways open source devs could use to innovate for the benefit of everyone.

This is why i prefer the proprietary systems not exist at all. So someone else can invent it instead. In theory all knowledge is out there and so are all inventions, to be discovered and shared for enrichment of the species as a whole.

If you ask me, if the benefit of everyone including yourself is not enough motivation to build something better then what already is. I don’t want you on my team.

If your motivation requires a self serving result, i would prefer if society paid you to STAY AWAY from any important work decisions because the losses are too great to give that power to what subjectivity understand as a mental illness.

If everyone benefits, i benefit. If no one suffers, i don’t suffer. You can keep the ego happy and still arrive to the same conclusion, i am award this is considered an extreme stance but i will die on this hill unless someone can point me to a higher one,

Someone remind me to adjust my opinion of volvo when they also release this tech pattern to the world for free.

I do not care how safe your system is in theory, if you are gatekeeping it so others can’t replicate it its more dangerous to the world then if it didn’t exist at all, which at least allows the chance of someone with ethics to still invent and share it.

I am honored but in truth i am but a simple pinguin follower of the holy world of analoque_nowhere

In the mean time, Plan 9, since 1992,

annything but google is an improvement but none deserve a recommendation.

ddg is just bing with privacy features but still cozy with microsoft and allows some of their trackers.

Bing itself, does not need introducing as not being a good alternative.

Startpage is to google what ddg is to bing.

Searxng… being open source so you can check yourself if it doesn’t have trackers might be an improvement but if you are not self hosting it can you trust who is not to run custom snoopers? And if you do self host it… its still obtaining results from google and bing your as anonymous as the server ip.

I don’t think the grinch would get a dog at all to be honest.

Its Max who adopted the grinch instead.

To be fair, all birds who went extinct back then also still had a common ancestor somewhere, all life on earth does.

Oh sure, its the gamers who are doing the beating huh?

I doubt ai companies are scared of us… but maybe they should be.

To be fair. Lts being more stable is kinda the point, thats why important infrastructure like hospital equipment will always run older lts release versions with as little additional updates possible.

This does not excuse the sheer lack of competence Microsoft has been displaying.

In this work the artist seems to portrays the feeling of disillusionment of modern life but there is more beyond the surface of these waters.

The subject is in a fastfood restaurant, presumably eating out by choice, they are clearly no longer waiting in line as demonstrated by the already obtained drink, but yet they do not look happy.

The style of intens lines put emphasis on this surreal feeling. Are they really hungry, do they want to be here? Or are they just going trough the motions of their life. They do not know themselves.

But thats not all because once the art observer realizes this they may even understand beyond it and in effect watch themselves in the mirror. Looking at this art, seemingly by choice. But do they want or need art or are they also just going trough the motions themselves?

Finally hitting the true intention of this art, reflection on the ego that so perversely sees art and then makes it about themselves. Illustrates by the sexual desire clearly expressed by this sad entity.

Truly a masterpiece of its kind. Bidding will start at 4 whole hands of seashells.

Sometimes all i feel when i read this shit is!

“HELL YEAH, ENSHITIFACATE ME HARDER DADDY”

“Make me hate you even more, make everyone else hate you like i have always done you sick pattern of economic misaligned. Make us hate you till we make you no longer exist!”

With some apps/games it definitely feels like it does. Would love to see someone dedicated do proper Wine vs windows benchmarks!

Data goes in one end and…

Stahp, my games already perform better on linux with wine then they did on windows at this rate…

Actually please keep going !!!