HobbitFoot

Lemmy was designed to be a place where communists would have a community. Some instances weren’t, but a lot of the original ones were.

It is been a plan for a while in the USA to shift launches from government run to private run for over a decade. This is just an implementation of that strategy.

What other company or government could do this?

No, but my job includes producing and verifying calculations.

We already deal with computer models, but there is a concept of “garbage in, garbage out” where the model is garbage because the inputter didn’t understand what to put in the model or even what model should be used.

So the modeling may be more efficient, but the budget gets blown in verification because the model is crap.

You are essentially making the silly “but yet you choose to live in society” argument.

I don’t think so. OP wasn’t saying to stop uploading to YouTube, but to upload to alternate sites as well and maybe lead their audiences there by mentioning it in videos.

But humans also need input as well.

It looks like we are already at the point with some AI where we can correct the output instead of add new input. Microsoft is using LinkedIn to help get professional input for free.

It is a lot harder to get wind to turn a coal power plant turbine.

To add to it, you probably also have to deal with parts sourcing. You can probably scavenge Bluetooth radios from several generations worth of equipment or get cheap from China. In contrast, a Lightning cable that can turn data to sound is likely really hard to come by.

Whatever the Steam Deck would be if Valve went full Linux desktop?

No. Enshittification happens because of venture capitalism.

Startup companies get a lot of money early on with the hopes that, after the investment cash is spent, there will be a profitable company left in its place. That company can become publicly traded or get sold to another company. The key is that the investors make their money off the startup.

The flip side is that, without venture capitalist companies, a lot of these companies wouldn’t get the opportunity to grow.

I don’t think that the use of Steam Decks in this manner is a great thing for Valve. It is basically being used as a cheap Linux PC with built-in user input and the ability to self maintain if the manufacturer decides to sunset maintenance.

If Steam Decks get deployed in this manner, it would only be as the computer interfacing with expensive equipment, which isn’t a large market and won’t really make Valve money outside the hardware sales.

“Bitten”

That isn’t going to happen. Major have studios have developed their own ways of distributing games and found that the public don’t really like it. For minor game studios, it is probably a lot cheaper to rely on Steam or an equivalent to do what you are describing.

Except that it isn’t malicious framing to some on Lemmy.

That toy looks like a blast.

It is too bad they weren’t able to make Switch a trans character.

IT don’t like it. Lock the taskbar. Lock the taskbar.

Given that the developers have publicly stated that there should be tons of instances run by anyone, pushing that much responsibility to admins with command line access is only asking for problems.

They are both working in the self interest of their platform, which is where they make their money.

It just happens to be that Nintendo’s platform is tied to hardware while Valve’s platform isn’t.