Where is here? You never said where you’re talking about.

Banning vpns is an authoritarian move for a country. No matter which country.

What’s a natural monopoly? Valve currently has the freedom to implement anything they want within an extent because they’re so popular. If they decided they wanted to charge devs 35% would people stop using it? Probably not. Steam’s monopoly is as bad as any other for the same reason any other monopoly is bad.

I don’t necessarily think either are great insults tbh and it’d be nice to see dick phased out.

I’m pirating because its free, I guess that makes me an asshole.

Assuming this is college, requiring students to pay for software is part of the norm.

I’m not pretending that every place that Europeans colonized was some utopia before but Colonialism made all of these places worse. On top of that you’re completely generalizing huge groups of people and their practices.

Capitalism allows there to be a wealthy, ruling class that can ruin the world with their greed.

OK so you’re just in an environment where a lot of people disagree. Plenty of online spaces are full of people who are like-minded to you. Lemmy is this way because a lot of anti-capitalists are drawn to the idea of decentralized federation not controlled by a corporation.

I’m sorry what do you think happened before capitalism existed? Do you think that all Indigenous peoples were struggling to survive before white colonists came and enslaved them? Capitalism has created suffering around the globe.

Those repackages of libreoffice packages are actually official.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

These versions are free software (as in open source) but there’s a small charge to cover the effort of putting software in the app stores, and to help develop the software (and build our communities).