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[โ€“] 53 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Wish him, and us, the best of luck! He's really come far from making a YouTube video about the issue but I'm glad he's willing to stand up when few others have.

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 3 months ago

    I remember the video when he was saying he doesnt want to lead this movement and just wants to game and i understood where he was coming from but damn did he ever rise to occasion. Hes a legend.

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  • [โ€“] 37 points 3 months ago

    Ross Scott looking really slick :)

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Why is this specific to games? Seems to apply to any software?

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  • [โ€“] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's mostly games that do this. Regular software by and large either uses a subscription model (think Adobe Creative Cloud) or an up-front payment model that won't stop working when the vendor's servers say so.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The main exception to this is device firmware and operating system images that require them (most visibly for smartphones), but the law in that case focused on demanding 5 years of software updates. IMO it doesn't go far enough - they should also be forced to publish everything required for the community to pick up the support at EOL - but it's not being ignored.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not providing software updates isn't the same thing as remotely disabling the software. Of course it is a major issue for smartphones, because it's a massive security issue to not have an up-to-date OS, but it's not the same issue SKG is campaigning on.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago*

    Without OS updates, apps gradually stop working and security goes down the drain. Nowadays this include apps required to interact with the state and basic services like banking. You can still do thing the old way, but it's far less convinient.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 months ago

    I get where you're coming from, but if we're talking about some 6 year old budget smartphone or something, will there really be enough interest in maintaining the firmware? It seems just as likely that you'd be blowing the source code open for people looking for hacks.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 3 months ago

    Thanks for sharing, and good luck to us all!

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    immer diese Killerspiele, die sollte mal einer stoppen /s

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    20:07 Catarina Vieira's speech is pure diamond.

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  • [+] -10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ow, ouch, right in the cringe

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Mind to elaborate on your one line, low effort insult? Maybe with any kind of argument?

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  • [+] -9 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Sure! What she's saying induces a form of second-hand embarrassment colloquailly known as "cringe". She also keeps saying it over and over again as the listener recoils deeper into their seating and gradually turns into a raisin.

    I agree with her point but that does not mean that it isn't unbelievably cringe. I also shared the video with many of my friends from a variety of backgrounds and they all agreed that it was indeed a level of cringe they had rarely witnessed.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of text and still not a single word about what exactly that she is saying that makes it cringe for you.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I bet a majority of the people in the house understood the majority of her gaming quotes, therefore proving that games go beyond the screen but become part of everyday lexicon. And companies removing games removes culture.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago*

    The chairwoman literally says that she didn't understand any of it, which makes it all the funnier. But the funniest thing by far is the next speaker shaking his head when the camera cuts to him (though that is probably a result of the uploader cutting the video down).

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 3 months ago

    Stop killing software.

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