The way steam reviews work is a pure recommend or do not recommend syatem.

Its more accurate GBE say ow2 is the least recommended game of all time, not the worst

I don’t think this post is a defence of China, its a damning of the invasive governments, which the US also has.

It’s a warning that we are one step away from China, and should do something about it.

It means that, because the reddit version was open source, some completely different Dev was able to take it and rework it to work with lemmy

And Im saying it is objectively a bad one.

If you want to keep touching the hot stove, all power to you. Nobody is going to argue it’s not a bad choice to touch a hot stove though

Good thing I’m running Graphene OS then

I’m am saying it is objectively bad thing for an app to run through google servers

Well, I don’t use it.

But in regards to the payment, Why on earth would I pay a Dev who thinks using Google servers for ads is a good idea?

That’s just bad judgement

The problem isnt that its paid, it’s that they use google AdSense.

I do not trust a Dev willing to send my data through Google servers.

I think a lot of you are confusing privacy focused to elitism.

No data should ever go to a google server from Lemmy app ever.

A lot of people seem to think the issue is that’s he’s charging for it.

Graphene Os, although I’d love to move to Post market OS and Plasma Mobile once it’s ready

I’m fairness, FOSS development is not as expensive. You usually are basing your work on previous libraries. Everyone builds off each other so nobody has to do it alone. That’s FOSS

I doubt anyone who says this has donated to their Lemmy instance.

The truth is, humans try to justify their purchases. You didn’t want to pau for Sync, you would have happily used it for free.

You want to feel good for having paid for Sync.

The sad part is Sync will likely kill in way more money than the instances we run on.

I mean you have yo question how much the guy values privacy if he even considered Google ads as a monetization model.

My qualms about proprietary software is due to privacy, not cost.

I don’t feel superior for using FOSS, I feel more secure (and usually am)

Right, but sync isn’t even free in that regard. It serves you ads, tracks you, and is closed source. I’d happily financially contribute to it if it were actually FOSS

The backspace bug where it removed the previous spacing between words really bothered me.

I absolutely judge people who don’t care about online privacy

The only people who don’t care are entirely tech illiterate and make no effort to understand why its an issue.

I do not say this to disparage the man, but since Iwata passed, Nintendo has been much more of a standard corporation. I think they will just do a traditional switch successor this time.

I hope of has a relative per pixel performance of the Series S but at 800p instead of 1080

We might actually get some modern ports at lower resolutions if they pull it off.