[–] 66 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Well let me think some reasons to actually support Valve:

  • Supports open source
  • Doesn't try to fuck up their customer base
  • Produces nonrestrictive hardware
  • Invents things to make gaming better
  • Their own games actually optimized and work on older hardware
  • Optimizes the gaming experience and helps 3rd party developers to be successful (literally opposite of Nintendo)
  • Customer support actually work
  • Non invasive opt in data collection / telemetry to make products better
  • Filters away the adware customer is product bs
  • Supports older hardware by updating / upgrading drivers that original manifacturer doesn't anymore (less evaste, more opportunities to game)
  • Developed SteamOS (Linux distribution) to keep Microsoft from vendor locking gaming
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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I'm almost sure the reason there's no spare parts is the licenses and not the manifacturing capabilities. Also it doesn't make much business sense to recreate manufacturing for such old tec. I'm quite sure it doesn't make sense in ukraine either but more likely they just use the spares to keep the current fleet going as the life expectancy of the locomotives doesn't necessarily need to be that long and they can't worry about pollution right now either. Mac gyvering some old parts to life for a year or so probably makes more sense there than in Finland.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Those are in use. If there's no replacement then there's not that many to give. The broken ones would also require parts that are not manifactured anymore so those would mainly suffice as spare parts.

    As far as I know there might be more available as transports are going to be done with trucks instead of trains but even then those locomotives break in a speed that there might not be any available.

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