Then there's me, who actively went hunting for where I could pay for this app as soon as I opened it

This dev has never been anything but respectful of his community. I have no qualms paying him the equivalent of 2 beers a year for something I have used for multiple hours a day every day for more than a decade. Easy value proposition.

The targeted ads thing I guess I get, but I haven't had ads on Sync for so long it honestly didn't really phase me because I planned to buy ad free anyway. Hopefully that bit gets streamlined.

Spez is a petty fuckface?

I've been in and around Christian communities my whole life. There is truth to what you say - someone being Christian increases the likelihood that other Christians would be willing to help them.

But by and large the prevailing attitude is even more disappointing and unchristlike. People are simply selfish and only want to serve themselves, keeping every penny they have earned regardless of those in need around them.

The rich don't get rich by giving it away, and this is well known amongst the rich themselves. Some may even give on a personal level, giving them a visual alibi for using their resources politically to actively oppose legislation and policy that benefits those less fortunate. To me this is even more evil.

I'll start by saying I absolutely love my steam deck.

But this line of reasoning is silly. No price point will make Nintendo sweat. The steam deck is very popular for any kind of dedicated PC gaming device, and insanely popular for a Linux based device. It's less than a blip on Nintendo's radar screen because it literally doesn't compete in the same space as their product.

If they want to make Nintendo sweat, it needs to natively play Nintendo exclusive titles (impossible) and be a flawless pick up and play user experience with zero tinkering (doable but it is miles away from this, and I don't think they intend for it to get there).

Again. I love my deck. But it does not and does not need to compete with switch. They do and should coexist happily together.

I wouldn't call that a contrast honestly. Sounds like a very similar attitude.

Sync does not require a subscription. There is a free ad supported mode.

Yeah it definitely is, which IMO further proves my point. It's not even hard to play Nintendo games (even switch games!) on the deck right now. It's awesome for tinkerers and enthusiasts, but it is in no way impacting Nintendo's sales or bottom line in any appreciable way. People who love emulation don't like to hear this, but the vast, vast majority of people would rather purchase, own, and play games on the platform they were intended to be played on. Switch hardware and software sales numbers are ample evidence of this.

As for Nintendo and their reputation of going after fan game projects, emulators, etc...They kind of have to. I think Nintendo realizes their special sauce is their exclusive characters and games, not their hardware. If they don't defend those trademarks they run the risk of legal challenges to their ownership of them. Whether that justifies them being as aggressive as they are is debatable, but I do think this is the more likely reason they are litigious than the idea that they are actually worried about losing console market share to the Steam Deck.

That's exactly how Quebec likes it, honestly.

Boy and his friends fight the dick neighbor kid, who is trying to take over the world with an eldritch horror from space.

That, and those platforms are also at the core of their business offering. You'd think it shouldn't be that hard for them to just offer a business version of those apps that is ad free. But in my experience administering a g-suite org for a couple years, they are absolutely lazy enough to just shovel users on the literal exact same thing they give to the general public.

Yeah. Fair I guess. We don't actually know the other person's parents started out hateful. Perhaps just ignorant. I guess both angles are assumptions.

My 6a can hotspot without issue on AT&T...

Does Lemmy have a "best of" community yet? This could be the founding comment.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Thanks, world!