With streaming companies owning the content, buying DVDs is just another way of financially supporting the same companies for worse quality.

Even when one piracy platform is taken down, there are new ones launched in their place. Nothing guarantees that DVDs will continue to be produced in perpetuity, just as digital copies of video games are progressively becoming less and less prevalent.

None of the benefits existed before the EU existed. Countries economically benefit from joining the EU due to those novel benefits, but in absence of them, countries otherwise don’t lose anything they had already by not joining.

Not interested if it’s on .ml.

By that argument, the EU would be ‘punishing’ countries for not joining in the first place. EU membership comes with benefits and obligations; countries can choose to leave to avoid the obligations, but the benefits only come as a result of fulfilling them.

Valve is definitely the best and the most innovative, particularly in contrast to Epic’s attempt to bribe their way to success and intentionally ignoring Linux, but even the best have their faults.

The link would embed better if you used the direct URL rather than the Google redirect.

Welcome to Lemmy, and thanks for sharing! The cause is worthwhile, but you’re being downvoted here because your post is off-topic.

Always try to post to a community suited to the topic of your thread, such as !ukraine@sopuli.xyz in this case.

The cause is worthwhile, but perhaps find a more on topic community for the post, such as !ukraine@sopuli.xyz.

Left-leaning states engaging in gerrymandering is nothing to the onslaught of voter suppression legislation enacted in right-leaning states, in addition to their own gerrymandering efforts.

Unless those on the right are willing to support national legislation banning it everywhere, while also ensuring widespread ballot access, any complaints to these measures are pure hypocrisy.

It always tastes better with half a can less of water than it recommends doing.

Because after pasteurized orange juice is deaerated and kept in storage tanks for up to a year before being bottled and shipped, it becomes tasteless and needs to be reflavored with ‘flavor packs’.

Compared to most concentrate orange juice, the frozen Minute Maid one wasn’t nearly as sour. The Great Value one tastes terrible, but maybe there’s another alternative… 🤔

Potential evidence being destroyed just by giving the Internet access to it.

I think it’s brainless too, but if people do use it, better for the public good that they use open source platforms that are harder to manipulate versus platforms with commercial, proprietary algorithms.

Adopting the Euro is still de facto optional as long as a country’s government intentionally delays compliance with the five convergence criteria.

Wine can be set up in a similar way, but Valve’s default setup is designed to for use with Steam first and foremost.

A bigger issue is that the Steam Deck touchpads don’t work without Steam being open. A more open approach would have been to write independent driver software for the touchpads.

Valve’s far and away better than Nintendo, but has still designed the Steam Deck to be heavily reliant upon Steam to function. The Steam Deck is priced in a way that anticipates increased consumer usage of Steam, but in isolation of Steam, it would be more usable as a Linux PC if it were more software-agnostic.

Valve’s better than Epic Games, but they still have every incentive to keep users in their ecosystem with DRM. To that end, the Steam Deck’s Proton compatibility layer and touchpad driver are integrated into Steam, rather than functioning independently of it.

Using the Steam Deck is possible without buying any games on Steam, but making Steam the core part of the distribution inherently encourages its usage.

Edit: I like the Steam Deck, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to point out the aspects of the platform designed to encourage the use of Steam.

eBay owned PayPal at one point, but both companies today are independent and separate from one another.

We might have to wait until their announcement on the 13th to know more, but if the launching of new merch and discussions of overseas development is anything to go by, they might not be canceling it, but rather replacing the entire development team with a new one overseas, all the while implementing microtransactions everywhere.

They’ll have lost most of the public’s goodwill in the process for doing so though.

It would seem that the owner sold it to a private equity group, which is predictably seeking to milk the game for profits.