Steam has many features that can be looked at separately, but at its core it’s a package manager. So I would argue an open source alternative comes preinstalled with any Linux distro.
You can find, install, and update games with e.g. Discover or Synaptic.
I don’t think many Steam users would consider them viable alternatives though.
Isn’t “viable” subjective though? If you are allowed to deem open source games not viable, then isn’t it a bit hypocritical to judge people for deeming open source browsers not viable, for their personal criteria?
Yeah, just like Steam and World of Warcraft, don’t you use them? What’s your point? Should I leave a similar comment under the Steam guide you posted?
I personally think it’s a little more nuanced than open source = always good, proprietary = always bad.
Indiana Jones 5 was fine though
Yeah absolutely, Discord is terrible for privacy either way. What I’m saying is that the verification “requirement” is not actually required for what I would presume the majority of people use Discord for.
Which doesn’t apply here, because the mistake makes the first and last letter no longer match
Yeah, except it’s not like you get to choose. If you are on the Discord server for rock climbing in your country, you can leave the community, but you don’t have “other options”.
It’s not like the question is “what platform do I want to use for X?”. The question is “The X community uses Discord, do I want to be in it or not?” And of course you can choose to not join, but you don’t have an option to choose another app.
Here in the UK Discord has been requiring this for a while already. I never did the verification, because I don’t access any NSFW Discord servers anyway. Unless you use Discord for porn (or speak on “stages”, whatever they are), there is no reason to do the verification.
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This was my experience. Every time people suggest it as a Discord alternative I’m like, have you actually tried it? I hate Discord as much as the next guy but Matrix doesn’t get anywhere close. I tried really hard to like it and give it a chance, but no.
Interesting, to me a tech bro means someone who isn’t really interested in tech other than as a vehicle to make money. The people going fad after fad through blockchain, metaverse, NFTs, AI, all as an investment opportunity without actually having any real technical knowledge about any of it. The people who aren’t geeks but are faking it as a front to convince investors and consumers that they invented something of value. A fake interest in LOTR fits my view of tech bros exactly.
The people happy to build the Torment Nexus and name it after a LOTR artifact as if it wasn’t an affront to LOTR.
When I’m on desktop I never go to Lemmy because I have better things to do or work on. So I end up only browsing it on mobile.
If the content is still good, and it allows hiring more people and produce more of the good content, then what’s the problem with the channel being bought? Sure, it may enshittify in the future, but let’s not judge them for things that haven’t happened.
You don’t consider who true LOTR fans? You just said these don’t count because they are companies.
Yeah, I guess they are seeing the answer on their side because they need to be able to judge that when you say your first car model name differently than when you typed it in, it’s the same thing.
Because you are not trying to recall the answer, you are answering the question, and can word the answer differently than before.
Which I don’t like.
Funny thing is when a bank employee asks you for the answer on the phone. I was like 5 characters in dictating the random 32 characters when she just stopped me and let me do what I called to do.
As someone who doesn’t use the voice chat feature of Discord, I am always confused when people suggest things like Mumble as an alternative.
They won’t let you send messages without finishing verification
Have you heard of companies like Palantir and Anduril?
I’m on over 40 Discord servers. And yes I had one for my own group which I moved to Matrix. That still means I’m in over 40 Discord servers. Plus I also run Matrix.