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"<p><a href=\"https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com/d/34-behmor-roaster/20\" class=\"PostMention\" data-id=\"324\" rel=\"\" target=\"\">MediumRoastSteam</a></p> \n\n<p>Exactly. A pet peeve of mine in the PC gaming world is Steam …. being committed to launching via their platform, despite havning paid £40, £50 or more <strong>per game</strong>, So if they go broke, ban me, whatever, then what? I could have (probably would have) spent a few grand on games, but for that. But, not doing it.</p> \n\n<p>On the Sandbox, if VIP gives you forum access and finding/loading profiles from others <strong>in there</strong>, then fair enough. But what if I get a profile directly from a mate with a Sandbox? What about creating one manually? What about another Sandbox user on here?</p>\n\n<p>Perhaps most insidious …. if I buy into the hardware now, what’s to stop them changing their mind about what they decide they’ll let me do with “their” roaster, <em>in the future?</em> It isn’t their damn roaster, once I:ve bought it. It’s mine. And I don’t like the idea of them deciding, post-sale, that I shouldn’t be allowed to do this or that, when if they’d said that before I bought it, I wouldn’t have bought it.</p> \n\n<p>I have a DJI drone and am in that position with that. So far, thankfully, I haven’t been screwed over by them …. and it’s a cracking (like the coffee reference?) little drone too. But I’m aware of the possibility.</p> \n\n<p>Ditto the Nano, which seems both better and worse. That, it seems, you have to create or edit a profile on a computer (Windows or Linux-based in my case) and then upload it to a USB stick. Then transfer from USB to the roaster, after which you appear to have very little control. Again, not ideal.</p> \n\n<p>The Ikawa? Dunno. Still trying to get my head around that,</p> \n\n<p>But those factors might be what brings me back to Gene/Behmor …. or to just buying my coffee roasted for me.</p> "
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