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I agree. their best play here would have likely been to just delay release until the hardware market stabilized. its going to flop at it’s current pricing.

I think the company could still likely chase people who do that for damages if something broke or for lost profit since it would be pretty clear that it was intentionally disabled/intended to stop its function so it would be pretty clear in a civil court that there was tortious intent.

I wouldn’t personally recommend doing it on these, they are essentially walking cameras.

I cancelled my sub as well for this year but, my only experience with this was well I selected “prime day delivery” to get the extra 1% on the card. It told me the following monday which was only like 3 days away so only a day more than if I did normal shipping so im like “oh ok thats fine”. It didn’t arrive monday and was updated to the monday after. I ended up cancelling the order full stop and got it at a brick and mortar when I was out that wednesday.

My current network doesn’t support video because it’s really slow. And so therefore also can’t load any of the images on the Steam page. But just out of description alone, this sounds like FTL.

Not that that’s a bad thing, I’m a little excited because I loved FTL. But… I’m hoping it’s not just a copy/paste clone of FTL mechanics

edit: the images finally loaded, just from image alone it looks pretty cool.I would love a systembuilder ftl style game.

oh I misread that,I thought it had said final verdict 10, yea that’s much more likely what I would have had lol!

Honestly, if that was white rice, I probably would have settled for much more than 10 bags.

It sounds like the household requires quite a bit of rice, and white rice has a pretty decent shelf life even if not airtight or refrigerated

I go through about a bag and a half myself a year,and that’s without it being a family meal

don’t say that, cause that means when they actually are up in running (as much as they can be) they will need to upgrade and cause another shortage once it seems it’s stablized again!

idk your use case but, have you tried razergenie out? I didnt know it existed as it wasnt very advertised by razer but, I’m using my mouse on it as its the last item in my setup thats razer and I have access to most settings.

Honestly, I would love if forced ident was required. but archival services need a hard exemption from being blocked as well.

“This website or search engine is not designed for the state of new york” I assume is going to be a disclaimer we will be seeing soon.

I know what it is but, NGL my eyes glazed over the word when I read it originally, although I defo could see a major corporation actually saying that so I would believe it regardless.

“Fun surprise for gamers” is would be a wild statement to make for something that removes choice from gamers.

edit: changed phrasing to respect paraphrase in original comment

I want to add on to this comment that there are also users who use clients that hide the ability to downvote if negative scores or downvotes are disabled in the settings (which is fair). Tesseract is one that comes to mind with that restriction, where if downvotes are turned off, your downvote button is removed and the upvote button is replaced with a like/heart button.

Being said, agree I don’t see many low quality posts in the first place. But it would be nice if reports or comments could be included as a way to judge low effort as well,

As others have stated, if your model is able to have the battery removed and have it still run off power, no problem, do so.

You should be using a dedicated UPS for something like that if you’re concerned about power going out , For a power input that a laptop requires, you could very easily find a $30 or $40 one at your closest big box retail store.

If you must keep the battery in it be careful to monitor it. I ran a laptop as a server for almost four years. It does work really nice. But depending on model, they may be prone to having the battery expand if it’s on 24-7. And even if it doesn’t, that battery is going to be shot after two or three years of constant use anyway.

You can mitigate the battery health issue by making sure you have some form of battery management software running where it stops charging the battery once it hits like 80-85%. and allows it to discharge on its own. But realistically using a laptop battery as a backup power source isn’t super recommended.

Plus with a UPS, you could also hook your router and modem/ONT up to it, which means that not only is your laptop going to remain on, but usually your network will remain up as well since communication lines are quite a bit more durable and generally stay alive even if the power goes down

I’ve never personally had any issues with the bot, but I’ve also never really needed to look at the bot either to see what the acronyms meant, but I’ve appreciated that someone’s trying to help if someone didn’t know what the acronyms were.

Being said, I do have to agree with what others have stated. It would be nice, if possible, to have it so the definitions link to hyperlinks to persistent pages such as Wikipedia. Even more so on technical style terms like DNS, for example, because that’s one of those terms that if someone doesn’t know the acronym to it, chances are they don’t know the full name to it either.

I wouldn’t classify that as dodging steam policy at that point. There is no product to parity. The 15$ starter pack wasn’t offered on steam during the exclusivity period. The actual wording for the price parity rule is You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.. If there is no steam key to parity with, then it’s not in violation of the policy. They were using the terms given to them by steam, and steam didn’t like that and allegedly threatened to delist all of their r6s products if they didn’t provide the same product on steam. That’s blatant monopolistic behavior in my eyes, especially considering that uplay variants of the game steam has no part in. Steam has no listings that you must sell products on both platforms, they do have a rule that states if there is one on both, you must give steam key purchasers an equivalent or better deal. On items that can use steam wallet/items that are on both platforms they do price parity it seems, but I have to disagree with it obviously dodging the policy.

Also for your analogy sake, it’s important to add that r6s wasn’t free to play at the time of this complaint. Free to play wasn’t even a thing for the game until mid 2025. While no date was provided, its safe to say these complaints are from at least 2017 (which also coincides with the year provided with the other company complaint) since that’s when the starter pack bundle was made to be a uplay exclusive without it being on steam, but this was back when the game was p2p instead of f2p. The 15$ starter pack included the game, a couple operators and some ingame currency, and if memory serves right, in buying it you would need to download and install it via uplay. Since it was a uplay product key and they lacked cross-progression during that time span.

The amount of people in this thread that are arguing that steam is fully within the right here due to the fact that they have a restriction on steam key pricing blows my mind.

for example with the UbiSoft case, It’s clear they have never actually opened or used Uplay because if they had they would realize that Uplay does not use Steam keys period at all. They are their own distribution platform that distributes off of uplay servers.

The entire point of the lawsuits is going one step further, which is that despite steam having a policy that says it’s for keys only, they unilaterally enforce it on all platforms regardless of the usage of the keys.

Now whether that’s actually true or not is what the lawsuits have to determine. But that is what the claim is. Personally I’m leaning towards it’s true because I’ve seen some screenshots posted about customer service saying that’s how it worked and threatening to delist steam games for cheaper first party distribution pricing elsewhere.

I’ll be curious where these cases go.

This is to the same effect of there is no such thing as bad PR

They had the same exact thing happen with the you would not download a car anti-piracy advertisements and the anti piracy disclaimers at the beginning of the VHS’s, many people, when they started running those ads, didn’t realize it was even possible to copy or pirate the media. So the ad did the exact opposite of what their intent was because it actually rose awareness that such a possibility was possible.

I’m reading this as this isn’t really something we want to do, but people are starting to sue us for deep fakes, so therefore we need to do something about it.

That’s really the only reason I can think of why they’re only targeting photorealistic style videos and not all of them.

honestly idk why they bothered covering them. just disconnect them… as long as they aren’t damaged I doubt flock could seek anything on it.