The only claim anyone has ever documented is detailed in the article.

An accusation doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right though. Something people get confused on often is Steam Keys, which are completely separate to Steam Store purchases. Valve do ask developers not to “give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers”

You can read through all the claimants key documents if you like 😉

https://steamyouoweus.co.uk/updates/

So far no one has ever shown Valve asking for price parity with other outlets, and this doesn’t appear to be any different. Just a lawyer looking for a payday.

https://lemmy.world/comment/10598212

He just has horses he was trying to dump on other people, but positioned it like it was a nice gift.

Essentially, this hinges on whether demanding price parity with other platforms is anticompetitive…

No it’s not. This hinges on whether you can sell the generated free Steam keys on other sites for less than the price you have set on Steam.

You can absolutely sell your game on another site for less. You can’t sell your game on another site for less and make Steam pick up the infrastructure costs.

Precisely. This is why the EU is harder on these companies.

When you get big enough, there are different rules to ensure that you don’t distort a market by killing competition. That is anti-trust, and that is considered a monopoly.

Makes them violent extremists

Only if you believe that any violence is extreme. I would disagree, punching fascists is fairly centrist and enjoys broad support.

what I’ve seen, plenty of antifa folk will use violence and vandalism against people unrelated to the supposed target group.

That is besides the point. You can be against facists and also against Nestle at the same time.

Fucking hell. Just what we need, more reality disconnected voters.

Close, it was Hyperspace as Spaceballs was Dark Helmet.

Not musicians “these days”. This has always been the case.

They didn’t create it though (At least that’s the argument).

Very few artists make money through record sales, and this has always been true not just recently with Spotify.

Even in the '80s bands were starving but then people pointed to Guns and Roses as examples that made money from record sales. Record labels signed contracts with bands to record and press albums, they took 90% of the money and gave artists cash up front. Unless they were already Aerosmith, the deal wasn’t great.

People bitching about Spotify taking most of the money, whilst it might be wrong, don’t seem to know their history. If you want to support bands it has always been about seeing them live and buying merch.

Artists don’t get good deals from Spotify because their labels are signing bad deals for them and it doesn’t matter “if they made the music”.

So you don’t understand what a monopoly is?

Because you don’t have to be the only player in the overall game to be a monopoly, just simply big and powerful enough to be unaffected by the other players which fits Apples description.

Nope. Fuck them, don’t give them any market share.

What the fuck?

So do we need to make up jobs for them, or are they bitching that because the Green sector is smaller, they can’t support it?

No, unfortunately only on the model I shared. There are comments about WhatsApp being removed from this model so it gets a lower rating.

That’s a shame as the 2780 doesn’t have WhatsApp.

You mean like this? Nokia 6300, has WhatsApp, apparently has Google Maps, 4G for tethering. Shitty camera is the drawback for me, otherwise it hits all the spots.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NCGGBVZ

Quite a few of the dumb phones have WhatsApp. Although the maps experience would suck.

Personally, since they already have WhatsApp, having a good camera and 5G tether are my two wishlist items. 4G tether is probably fine for the most part but the good camera would be missed.

That with an iPad mini, so that I can still use banking apps and maps but I’d have it in a bag so that it’s not simple to access and I could leave it at home would be my ideal.

Also, “not blonde” considering the typical Hollywood stereotypes.

Because there are still a lot of people pushing this bullshit?

When Google is destroying its search in the name of AI, when it’s being built into Windows and MacOS, when rather than useful features AMD include a bullshit accelerator, then it needs to be repeated.

We can’t let hype take over reality, and so the point needs to be reiterated every time it comes up.

What do you mean I can’t install Windows on my new MacBook??? I thought it was only Linux that you had to think about what hardware you were purchasing before whining about incompatibilities.