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  • Even if I wanted to be frozen, there is no point. One would have no guarantees that you wouldn’t just be thawed and disposed later so the company can sell more stasis slots. Or if they decide to even try to keep their word, they could maintain your stasis so badly that you would die from that or maybe thaw partially occasionally or something. Unless you are billionaire and could afford somekind of insurance that makes sure nothing happens to you, there would be absolutely nothing protecting you.

    And even if everything went according to plan, society could collapse in such way maintaining the stasis could become impossible due to lack of resources.




  • Its understandable though. Even though its also understandable the company would want to know where the trucks are, its also telling the drivers that they dont really trust them to do their job without surveillance. It should be enough that the freight gets delivered within agreed time and not too much fuel is used up in the process.

    Personally i would compare the gps to office having sensors that record constantly which room you are occupying. With the ai its like having a camera constantly monitor exactly what are you doing at every given moment. And if you do anything company doesn’t like you will be punished. Not only is it insulting, its exhausting having to ceaselessly consider is everything you are doing acceptable to whatever sensible or insensible rules the corporate executives have decided.

    People who want to be truckers most likely are kind of people who like working by themselves and not having to answer for every single thing they do at every moment and now even that is being taken away from them.






  • Here are some reasons:

    • exclusivity deals, forcing them to drop from steam even after they first announced release on there. They also target crowdfunded games like phoenixpoint.

    • The launcher is spyware

    https://www.resetera.com/threads/developing-epic-games-launcher-appears-to-collect-your-steam-friends-play-history-up2-valve-responds-see-threadmarks.105385/

    https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/epic-launcher-and-privacy/123592

    • and epic is owned by tencent 40%

    • They not really trying to improve their launcher but instead focus on hurting steam and by extension the users.

    Its like some shady guy trying to lure kids to a van by offering free candy.

    The launcher is security risk for your system https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/1hm9mh9/epic_games_launcher_had_a_serious_security_flaw/

    Even if they have fixed that specific issue, why would you believe they have fixed anything else?

    first comment on the reddit thread

    thlm 5mo ago

    Epic Games Launcher Incorrect Default Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    
    CVSS SCORE
    
    7.8
    
    This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Epic Games Launcher. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
    
    The specific flaw exists within the product installer. The product applies incorrect default permissions to a sensitive folder. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM.
    
    DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
    
    2024-07-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2024-12-04 - Coordinated public release of advisory
    2024-12-06 - Advisory Updated
    
    That timeline is disgusting
    

    So in essence, its not bad because it trys to compete with steam. Its bad because they really dont try to compete and just do anti-user things. And people dont care because “yay free games I’m never going to look at again”.

    If you want to see what actual competition looks like at the moment, take a look at GOG.