Comment on What do you think about what corporations are doing?
ech@lemmy.ca 3 days agoYou’re acting like it’s the only option, but it’s not. You don’t need to lock yourself into a walled garden. You don’t need to buy into a sunk cost fallacy. Even participating a little perpetuates and reinforces the bullshit you’re complaining about, and they’re never gong to suddenly give in to the way things should be. Stop letting these companies hold what you want hostage, dictating how you view your options.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Do you use a smartphone?
You’re never going to change the world alone. There aren’t enough people with your attitude of “cut everything completely” to ever make a change. There has to be compromise somewhere, on both sides.
Ifsomeome bought a thing, they are entitled to use that thing. If the maker makes it unusable, then their options for use are limited. 99.9% of people aren’t going to learn how to reverse engineer a game console to figure out how to jailbreak it, and without AI assistance, that usually takes multiple years to figure out, which is usually promptly patched out in an automatic update. Most people aren’t going to even bother, so they will either pay more to keep the use, or throw it out. And for most people, they aren’t throwing it out.
ech@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Right, because the only alternative is reverse engineering professional hardware. That’s seriously what you think? No wonder you feel “compromise” is your best option. Good luck with that.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So, what would you propose instead?
I have a Series X that I bought when they first came out, 6 years ago. That’s it. No other consoles, no PC.
What’s your solution to “fight the man” that allows me to game on the weekends?