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What in the tech world isn't broken? Besides older consoles and computers disconnected from the internet.
My Internet-connected Linux computers are pretty fucking rad.
My GOG games aren't, my Steam library's still chugging along after 11 years, my Linux installs haven't failed or started spying on me and my offline, modular 3d printer still works.
It's all about understanding what you're using/buying and what's the incentives for those on the other end. We shouldn't have to think about that all the time, but on the bright side there are cool things happening outside of enshittification by publicly traded corpos.
Also VLC is free and is one of the best media players there is, and yt-dlp is so easy to acquire music with I'm surprised people thought spotify was a good long term idea for their music consumption.
Steam will do a rug pull one day. You purchase a license to their games, you do not own them.
What do you think will happen? Classic enshittification?
Wanting some kind of subscription to still play?
Helps that steam's DRM is piss-easy to crack, and good indie devs give you DRM-free redeemable copies if you show a proof of purchase (Klei my beloved)
steam will go to shit soon as we lose gaben
Would that be coorporate suicide for steam?
Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.
Fingers crossed he passes the reigns to someone with the same vision.
Quite a bit of what they do gets into open source.
This. I've been developing my exit strategy for years and am reluctant to buy too many games on steam. It's going to hit most people like a freight train