Not everybody wants to self host every single piece of network software they use.

Hyperbole is hyperbole. I refuse to fall for bullshit just because it’s aligned with my views and opinions.

Looking at the actual numbers (less than 1%) other commentors are posting as opposed to clickbait headlines, I’m not seeing the issue.

Sorry, did you mean to reply to the parent comment? Mine is just referencing the DDG sunglasses.

This feels more like a grift playing on a current hotbutton issue

I’ve been looking for a way to describe how I was feeling about DDG selling sunglasses, this does it perfectly.

Ok, it does say on steam, missed that.

The article doesn’t say that they were bought on steam in the first place. Given the pricing error, more likely they were bought on another storefront that issues steam keys with purchases. That would explain the error.

Are you sure about that? Because that’s not my experience. If you’re buying for a friend it asks you for their account and adds it to their library directly. I’m pretty sure the behaviour you describe was phased out a long time ago. Granted, there’s a possibility this is regional.

Buying games on steam doesn’t give you steam keys though, so this doesn’t really explain why sales on steam stopped being awesome.

Breaking news: Economist falls out of window.

Steam is a platform. It does provide optional DRM that some games use, but there are others that are DRM-free

A lot of official store fronts provide steam keys with your purchase because Steam is so universal.

Charging at home vs public charger, driving speeds, hilly terrain, etc.

I know, but that’s pretty much how anybody on mobile will see it.

It’s pretty dramatic…

The joy of ninja edits, huh?

Yes, Rimu is the main developer of piefed. While the project originally started with very noble stated goals, Rimu is turning out to have some very strong opinions and uses his control of the software and his adminship of the main piefed instance to impose those opinions on everybody. Very often so far, his actions and his stated reasons do not line up. In a way, it’s even worse than lemmy where at least the software is free of the ideological beliefs of the devs.

If you’re on piefed.social, there’s a lot of content being censored you might not even be aware of. About half of that is said controversy about piefed.

Do it to an indie dev and I’m ostracizing you.

If an indie dev decided to randomly start removing content a year after release, they would deserve to have it done to them too. You get more leeway as an indie, but it’s not a free pass.

They’re both correct. This is akin to correcting somebody because they’re using British / American English and you’re using the other.

Seeing as he obtained it legally, albeit by accident, I think it would be whoever sold the hard disk that’s at fault. Granted, IANAL and the American legal system is fucky.

Edit: Yeah I’m not a lawyer.