They have a functional monopoly on game launchers, but it isn’t illegal to have a monopoly — it’s only illegal to use that monopoly for anti-competitive actions.

A monopoly in law doesn’t mean total (100%) market control; it means having the power to control prices or exclude competition. Courts often refer to this as monopoly power.

A monopoly could exist with as little as 50% of the market, or even lower. Steam has around 70–80%, which is easily enough to be considered a monopoly. However, you could argue that despite their large market share, they can’t truly control the market, since it’s their goodwill and consumer-friendly behavior that earned them that share in the first place — and if they ever tried to abuse it, people might go elsewhere.

Personally, I don’t really believe that. Considering your entire library is tied to their platform, they could pull all kinds of shady tactics if they wanted to. But it’s an argument.

As far as I’m concerned, Steam is the least evil of the major corporations. I can overlook the secret gambling ring and possible dark-money smuggling complicity because they seem to be a net benefit to consumers, and the harm mostly falls on those complicit in the scheme — as well as on China and Russia.

Edit, fixed spelling.

I told chatGPT to break the news easily

Has something changed?

Idk that looks like a master size marz bar to me, he should have the “fun” size.

Damn, can’t believe all those other people are being lied to, I’m just glad I’m smart enough to realize that my opinion is the obviously correct one or this might happen to me to anyway have you heard the earth is flat?

Aktacualy those are hooks the meme is bait for saying the hooks are bait which makes them bait … Cary on.

$4,000,000,000,000÷4,000,000 = $1,000,000 literally we could turn all starving people into millionaires if we could live without an iPhone. I guess technically we would have to move the people in those fields to production or logistics or whatever but since the US creates 130 billion extra meals a year I don’t actually think we would have to.

Well yeah but they also moan when hit.

I almost exclusively role my eyes when I see a new fork, the whole problem with Linux (distros) is fragmentation among the developer base they literally cannibalized themselves and honestly a new distro is not worth eating human flesh.

This seems fake, why would they use a separate computer for each drink type? Shouldn’t they all be dead?

So like did the children come standard with this joke or did you have to tell this joke to become a dad?

My alcoholic uncle with jaundice of the liver?

Humanity is incapable of understanding me, my true form can only be revealed in photographs.

Just gonna follow you for national security instead that ok?

Hmm, red makes it go faster so you kill more people faster but they don’t suffer as long but blue gives you better team mates in matches… wait is this competitive trolley slaughter? I wasn’t expecting to need a team I guess I’ll choose blue because they will be carrying.

Solid wood can be fine as long as you have the dry on it will mold otherwise but the real problem is the layered wood, the steam causes the glue to fall apart.

So that just means UBIOS is explicitly for spying since UEFI is open source and a standard right?

Just don’t buy wood cast iron or garbage and you’ll be fine.

And? Subway’s has to classify it’s bread as cake because it’s too sweet.

My phone has literally the worst auto correct in the world I will blame that on the technical people but reread my comment.