[–] 1 point 1 month ago*

Yes, they have a pretty dominant position, but they're not abusing it, at least not like many other companies, and that makes the difference. For example, they don't make anything exclusive to their own hardware or their own OS, their software can run on any distro, and their OS can be installed on any adequate hardware. And they don't lock the Steam Machine to run only games sold on Steam. And a lot of work they do under the hood is made open source (Proton DXVK, SDL, GameScope, driver work etc). It's mainly Steam itself and stuff part of it that's kept proprietary (and that's been relatively resistant to enshittification).

Of course, the thought of Valve starting to abuse their dominance is every PC gamer's nightmare.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    The problem is, YouTube has no real competition. No one has the same thing they do. And the same applies to a lot of things today.

    Another issue is, subscription services can just raise the price and then start charging people more without those people doing anything, or possibly even noticing, which differs from individual purchases where you had to make a judgement about the price each time. Now, people have to make an actively cancel in order to not agree to new prices (or EULA changes for that matter). It should really be the other way around, so that if a service raises their price, people have to actively agree to the new price in order for the service to keep charging them.

    Can't speak for Uber Eats or Starbucks though.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    over 100% of the BT.2020 pro color space

    What does this mean? BT.2020 already requires pure monochromatic subpixels (which you're not gonna get with LCD), so you can't go beyond that unless you use 4+ subpixels (in which case the extra colors will just go unused, since HDR video is delivered as BT.2020). Or is BT.2020 Pro a smaller gamut than BT.2020?

    This article is the only thing I can find on Google which mentions "BT.2020 Pro", at least in English.

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