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May 16 2017 02:11pm
Quote (DCSS @ May 16 2017 02:33pm)
yup there it is
the point is that i don't need to ask anyone's permission to perform an installation. Or download anything.
It's ownership insofar that i have that sovereignty and it can't be taken away from me by a third party
Steam has way too much power over its users in that regard. There should be no earthly reason why someone shouldn't be able to have their own offline installer but that's DRM for you

I doubt anything bad will ever happen with Steam or its users but it's just not for me.

The only thing I avoid more than this is the internet of things because it's all fun and games til your thermostat gets ransomware and you're in anchorage alaska dead of winter about to literally freeze to death if you don't pay up. Also bad shit has already happened be it benign shit like light switches getting hacked or cats starving to death because their stupid automatic feeder lost wifi while they were on vacation. I still think closed systems should stay closed, and also that the cloud is only useful only in a corporate environment


lol tin foil hatter like I said
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May 16 2017 02:14pm
Yes, basing my decisions on the cold hard fact that introducing more points of failure to a system for no appreciable gain in function is not worth doing is tinfoil hat stuff. Flawless victory. Rip me.

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May 16 2017 02:15pm
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Yes, basing my decisions on the cold hard fact that introducing more points of failure to a system for no appreciable gain in function is tinfoil hat stuff. Flawless victory. Rip me.


how do you enjoy owning a pc or anything?
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May 16 2017 02:17pm
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how do you enjoy owning a pc or anything?


I'm not seeing the equivalency here. PC is an object that I understand and can interact directly with. If something goes wrong, I can fix it. If something goes wrong or just bad with Steam, I can't fix it.
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May 16 2017 02:19pm
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I'm not seeing the equivalency here. PC is an object that I understand and can interact directly with. If something goes wrong, I can fix it. If something goes wrong or just bad with Steam, I can't fix it.


do you use iphone or android?
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May 16 2017 02:21pm
save ur breath its becoming more like ghot.
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May 16 2017 02:21pm
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do you use iphone or android?


android
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May 16 2017 02:23pm
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android


are you using linux on your pc?
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May 16 2017 02:47pm
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are you using linux on your pc?


Just as a host, somehow 7 runs better this way.
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