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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Hosselknaap420 on 2024-10-15 12:34:20+00:00.
Hi All!
Gabe Newell said it first, piracy isn’t a payment issue, it’s a service issue.
The last few years i’ve been transforming my household into this Piracy paradise with a local media server and de-googled phones, the next step is gonna be upgrading to Linux instead of W11, but i’m still rocking W10 enterprise so far as it’s still supported.
Anyway, after de-bloating and connecting the third laptop to our media empire i’ve been wondering, if i am ready to configure all this stuff for hours because big tech makes their services so abysmal, i can’t be the only one leaving them.
So if tech savy people like me are pulling the plug and a lot of family memebers follow suit, isn’t that detrimental for their buisiness? Of course you still got the moral knights and people that don’t do any effort that will use said services. But if my parents are even so fed up that they want to throw the phone off a cliff, more people have to feel that way. And when they realize a nerdy cousin can fix that for them…
Windows shoving ads in your face, stealing every gram of data they can, streaming services offering less and less quality content and removing the good stuff, phones that last significantly shorter in battery life because of unremovable bloat… and i am not even gonna start on the last few updates on our Samsung TV (it’s a fucking miracle if it just shows the proper input instead of its own pushed TV app)…
Half of the big tech i deal with daily signed their own death warrant inside of this house. No more Samsung TV’s, no more google BS, no more Windows, no more streaming with mediocre offerings.
The fun thing is, i still use Steam and regulary buy games, because it works and they offer exactly what i need/want.
Just wondering, wouldn’t it be more succesfull in the long run to please the customer? Rather then alienating and basically antagonizing them? I get that loads of people will always use it, but wouldn’t more people use it if they’d play along a bit more?
edit: typos