Made a complaint to the California Dept of Consumer Affairs. I used the way back machine to show at the I purchased the phone, their policy was “full refund, no questions asked” which they silently changed a few years later and then hide behind as an excuse to deny refunds. Turns out that’s illegal.

A shady company that I had to fight tooth and nail to get my money back after literal years of false promises and moving goal posts. They’ve burned any respected reputation they had.

Almost as if the value of art can’t, nor should, be measured by it’s monetary value.

A lawsuit waiting to happen… someone needs to class action MS for systemic breaches of privacy. Think of all the critical infrastructure, government, medical, policing, etc. systems processing sensitive, private, and in some cases classified, information.

Yeh, I’ll wait until the bugs are ironed out and my distro (mint) determines it’s stable. No need to start asking for troubles when everything is working smoothly.

An incredible game. If you are keen on trying a modern take on it, Songs of Conquest is an about to be released spiritual successor which is very enjoyable.

Walled garden platforms doing what walled garden platforms do I suppose…

Yeh. The Librem was a classic example of overpromise and underdeliver. Borderline scamware by Purism. Will never go near them again.

Exactly. Steam figured this out early on and it’s how they have maintained their dominance in the game distribution business. It’s the same lessons the entertainment streaming platforms must learn - your value is convenience. Add more walls between consumers and content? you will be cast aside.

If the system can’t protect itself from being overwhelmed by the cancer of corporate interests, then it’s never going to survive. New wave internet needs to learn from the downfalls of its predecessor. The design must have protections built in to prevent capitalists from capitalising, or else it will inevitably fall.

Great idea! The iphone keyboard is horrible. Have always missed having tactile keyboard from blackberry days. Im in.

About time WotC unionised and spun-out of Hasbro.

Related to the recent reddit mobile site update that straight up breaks the website perhaps? (Cant scroll, can’t interact)

It’s a real shame. Monopolies in any industry/product inevitably lead to fucking over consumers… time we broke em up I think

People keep buying big tech products and subscriptions then are shocked when they fuck you over? shocked picachu

Good to know, thanks!

Sounds good, I’ll check it out too. Presume it plays nicely with linux as well then, do ya know?

Will do, cheers 👍

Purism is dead in the water following the atrocious Librem 5 fiascos.

Never once had a driver issue on Mint. Literally did an entire rebuild (mobo, cpu, gpu, the works). Switched it on, everything worked perfectly, no OS reinstall or driver hunting.

Any issues I’ve heard about, the main culprit is nvidia cause of proprietary crap. Move to AMD graphics and it’s literally plug and play.