In my experience, they always hire anyone with a pulse and pay them peanuts. Finding a competent and motivated person is a lot harder then.

The only one where they had some sort of screening was because it was support for the government

Try Matrix or Revolt maybe? Lemmy doesn’t seem to be a chat platform by design

There’s a third part? Ha, what a fun way of finding out

I think you forgot the first part of the story. Or maybe in my app (thunder) it’s not showing correctly?

I’d have bought a Deck even if it only lasted a few months, because I got one two months after launch on pre-reservation.

Well, that might just be where we differ. I don’t find it fiscally responsible to drop 400+ on a piece of hardware I’d only use for 2 months.

I’m not telling you how to live your life, just saying that ain’t for me, chief 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ah, I see where you’re coming from now. No, you don’t have to glaze me to get the support that you need, but you sure as hell don’t get to verbally abuse me because you made a mistake and are too much of an narcissistic asshole to reflect on that mistake.

No, I “blame” victims who are assholes about it by taking their shame and loss of pride and taking it out on tech support.

I would sympathise with those that admitted they made a mistake and were looking for real answers

Oh, the adaptive power lines is a big win! Now they should work like you’re creating paths and just snap to each other instead of having to place straight pieces, corners, T-junctions etc separately

If the Deck stops being sold tomorrow, that has zero impact on the one I already have, save for the possible decline in spare parts available.

Yes, exactly. Getting it repaired (both within and outside of warranty) and spare parts availability.

Software eventually too, but usually that takes a while longer.

There are lots of reasons to wait to buy something, but “they might stop selling them” seems more like a reason to get something you want to have sooner, rather than later.

Would you have bought a Steam Deck if Valve would stop producing them after 3 years? I wouldn’t.

Not saying you shouldn’t though, each to their own and all that.

Before it was via search engines.

I was working support for a multinational tech company, customer: “I searched for your support number and I rang them and they scammed me, you guys are shit”.

Turns out they clicked on the top result that was SEO’d to shit to catch these types of people that can’t think for themselves.

So not just assholes, but also tech illiterate folks that trust the first thing they read.

Yep, first movie, where Beni meets Imhotep: https://youtu.be/X-7cNmx17bk

Time to watch it again!

Surely it’s enough for a given product to either be worth the price one pays at the time of purchase, or not be. Judge a product for what it is, not what it will be.

Yeah, that makes sense. I guess it’s more of a principle thing. I don’t need a Steam Deck so it’s easier to distance myself making a purchase and wait it out. Didn’t feel like only seeing a piece of hardware be continued for a few years (3 years for the Steam Machine and Steam Link, 4 for the Steam Controller) based on track record.

Glad to hear that! I don’t really need one so it would be more of a spur of the moment kinda thing. Maybe when it’s on offer 😏

I said or, not and.(“has been quick to get discontinued or support has stopped”)

Steam Link is kinda obsolete now, but I would have loved another iteration of the controller.

Yeah I don’t mind waiting for that. Not very susceptible to FOMO. I do think it’s been going better for the SD than the other hardware though, so I’m happy for the userbase.

I haven’t bought it because previous hardware has been quick to get discontinued or support has stopped (steam machine, steam controller, steam link) and I didn’t like that.

Told myself I’d buy a Steam Deck 2 because that would show long term support, though.

Lawful good would have taken inflation into account and paid $8.91

The beauty about an RPG is the RP part: you craft your own story and do whatever you like. With every Elder Scrolls iteration, that freedom became less and less.

Context for the picture: then Prime Minister Mark Rutte was sharing some funny video with our king Willem Alexander. This was during the opening of a UN meeting, while Trump was giving a speech (2019)

It’s funny, in my language we call them European Oohoo’s, for the sound they make 😆