so that’s a new way to be looking at things

Blaming game launchers on Steam is like blaming streaming becoming unusable on Netflix. They were having success being (probably) the first ones to do it and when other companies saw that they tried to copy their success, only to find out that what made the original product successful was that they were the only ones doing it and that was (unlike the new landscape the companies just created) incredibly useful.

The sad fact of the matter is that while having a one stop shop for anything sounds great, once a solution in a certain field gets successful the other companies trying to achive the same success will fly in like vultures and make it forever impossible to have just one service that unites everything into one neat package.

As far as I know Valve isn’t one of those companies that employes a hundred thousand minimum-wage slaves, but one that’s gotten big, by actually innovating, which is like the only potentially good aspect of capitalism and seems to not be something most corporations do anymore. Of course were this question to ever become relevant he would have to give up most of his wealth, but it’s not like he is one of those billionaires that eat babies for breakfast.

since he would have gotten rich again by the right people attracting wealth obviously

i love this idea let’s become mice

im taking these words to heart

That’s quite sad actually

i would say ocd is the person having traditions and even that is wildly inaccurate

I don’t think it would be useful or even possible for you to fake that. I get that when you don’t care about things you probably don’t care about solutions that don’t just mitigate consequences either, but I think it would be smart to seek professional help and get over this in a meaningful way. I don’t think you are fundamentally broken in any way but it does sound like you have some stuff to sort out and therapy would probably help a lot in that.

Oh yeah I get this. Good shower thought.

it’s funny i only know one person that uses these and he is basically a fascist

also i know this single person who is white but uses the black thumbsup for some reason

😗 is the weird uncle, :3 is pretty me

Autofill is still an issue though. I can’t recall which settings are off by default but I found I need them a lot of times and so I always have to enable them and give accessibility permissions to Bitwarden, which sometimes it loses. It really annoys me and if it can annoy me it can’t be used by people who don’t want to deal with any tech that doesn’t work out of the box.

As someone who is way too tech literate I would argue tech should be made more accessible. I wholeheartedly disagree with the walled garden approach, but the fact that I just had a conversation with my friends with the result of “but I won’t use a password manager, because it’s too complicated” is very eye opening.

Here’s my setup for instance: Bitwarden, I log into my own server (which it self is kind of a hidden setting), then go into Settings > Autofill, check everything, grant a dozen obscure permissions (most people won’t know what they are) and then sometimes it just doesn’t work. Yet again sometimes it randomly loses said permissions and I have to grant them again, meaning I couldn’t even help someone while setting it up, because eventually it might break.

People should be able to download a password manager of their choosing and then grant a “this is a password manager” option, which shouldn’t be easily exploitable. Instead apps and websites should clearly declare login forms, but they don’t really so these apps need a fuckton of permissions, over which we should obviously have granular control, so fucking password managers of all things become a powertool.

And these kinds of things happen ridiculously often, over way too much different tech stuff.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

I mean from a literary viewpoint this text is pretty well built, I’ve almost believed it for a moment.

this comment made me cry a bit on the inside