I don’t see how the DMA would cause this other than Google preemptively setting themselves up for malicious compliance. The whole point of the DMA seems to be to give users choice not take it away.

This is about Revanced, isn’t it? They failed to kill it via the YouTube backend so now it’s down to lock down the os and browsers as much as possible to keep feeding people the juicy ads.

Straight to jail

Luckily you can upvote all three

Baggage handlers are not paid by the bag

The difference is availability of choice. On apple phones, Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation you are locked into a single source of software. On a PC there are myriad of game stores you can choose from. Sometimes you can even buy the software directly from the developer. Usually people are upset when this choice is taken away (for example epic exclusive games). Nobody would bat an eye if a developer offered their game on epic or their own platform with a ~20% discount compared to steam. But it is up to the developers to make their game available on any of the PC game stores.

In conclusion, steam is not a platform holder, they could charge whatever they wanted. If the markup was too high, you could simply choose to buy your games elsewhere. For most people, this 30% is worth it for the features and buyer protection that steam offers compared to other platforms.

Saturation slider go BRRRR?

Only if I don’t run out of blinker fluid.

150 GB for $30 a month seems like a pretty bad deal…

It seems like the opposite: fission triggered by fusion

My favourite “innovations” ought to be the lack of an instrument cluster so you have to look at the tablet for your speed, the steering yoke, and putting the indicator controls on touch sensitive buttons on the steering wheel.

Despite or Because?

You’re probably right, sadly

Yeah, imagine trying to hit that while you’re turning the wheel

Capacitive button on the wheel

Its just a frontend for YouTube music essentially. Maybe worth taking a look if someone makes something similar now with sideloading being an option

Edit: 2 minutes of googling lead me to this https://github.com/rphrishi4/RiMusic4ios?tab=readme-ov-file

There is!

Ceck out this (android): ViMusic

One of the things I like about DDG is that you can turn localised results on/off whenever you like and even chose the location. Also localised search is pretty good for me too.

They kinda ruined it with the multiverse. Everything feels without consequence. Death is meaningless and there are no stakes now

Death… By Snu Snu