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Just a random person who likes building software and configuring Linux.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Steam is not a subscription service
Steam provides a cloud service. Not dissimilar to other subscription-based services. Had they been using AWS, they would also have been affected by the outage, resulting in Steam also being mentioned in the headline. So it’s just as relevant as the others.
you’ll never own a piece of software by buying it in a video game store.
Sure, I’m both granted a license on both Steam or GOG, but the crucial difference is still about offline access. If GOG stopped existing tomorrow, I’d still be able to install, and play, all my GOG games. The same cannot be said for Steam. Which one, then, grants the most ownership? License or no license.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
It IS a scam since a lot of subscription services do not make it clear that the buyer is only granted limited access, and not ownership of the product.
Just last year, due to legal reasons, Steam placed a notice on their cart page stating that purchases only grant a license—much to the surprise of some Steam users. Steam has been around for 20+ years, and it took a piece of legislation to force the company to inform their buyers of this very important fact. It is clear that they would rather have misinformed customers, much like in a scam.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
What’s even funnier are the people who spend lots of money on subscription services to own nothing. This outage just demonstrates who really owns their purchases.
- Comment on Ideas 4 weeks ago:
I host many services on my server. Just to list a few: my website, Jellyfin, Lemmy, a Monero node, and Nextcloud.
My main reasons for choosing home-hosting over cloud-hosting are:
- Full Privacy
- Complete Data Ownership
- Local Access
- Comment on Forgejo fills up hard drive with repo-archives 1 month ago:
If you have a Linux server, you can try partitioning your drive using LVM.
If you are using Docker containers, you can prevent individual services from consuming all disk space by giving them their own logical volume.
- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 3 months ago:
I still play some of my old school Pokemon games from time-to-time such as Red, Silver, Ruby, and Platinum.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 5 months ago: