HughJanus @ HughJanus @lemmy.ml

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....you mean the exact situation mention in the OP?

They both do.

Very curious that you thought about the fact that early humans had never seen their own assholes, as opposed to their faces.

I bought Cuphead($14), 4 of the Batman Arkham games($4-5), and Hyper Jam ($4).

Also installed shortcuts for Xbox and Nvidia cloud gaming. Xbox is fairly impressive. Just played a couple of quick rounds of Fortnite. Nvidia I was waiting forever for a slot so I didn't get too far with that.

Well the "anyone can sue" is very much a real thing. But you can also counter-sue to recover "reasonable legal fees" (court costs, attorney fees) etc. if it's found to be exceptionally egregious and litigious.

But most of the cases you hear about are similar to the Maccas one where there are giant details left out of the public narrative.

Yeah I did not and would not say that. I prefer GoG, all other things being equal. I just bought 6 GoG games this morning.

I hope he hands it over to someone who will continue his legacy

I'm not naive to think valve does anything for anything other than money and self preservation.

I'm really not one for optimism but Valve really does seem to do things that are not entirely to their benefit. Compare the stark contrast to publicly-traded greedy companies like Apple, for instance.

When it comes to hardware, Apple goes out of their way and invests their vast resources into ensuring you have to trash your devices prematurely while Valve goes out of their way to make their components modular, attach with screws, and make first-party parts available through third party storefronts.

Apple maintains complete control over every piece of software you can install on your device, and even the operating system itself. Valve builds onto an open source OS, adds a "return to desktop" button, and while they don't help you install 3rd party stores, they don't put up any artificial barriers to doing so yourself.

Valve could absolutely do all the scummy shit that Apple does and get away with it because they have a similar amount of influence over their industry, and they would probably make buckets of money doing it, but they choose not to.

You could say similarly scummy things about EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Blizzard, etc. etc., but not Valve (not to say that they've never done anything ethically questionable).

It really seems like they just don't want to be scumbags, which is incredibly refreshing in these times.

it's not

Really? Did you interview all 1 billion Apple users?

Yes, absolutely

Okay that worked, thank you

No. I have not. I don't have an Ally. But these are issues mentioned in Chimera's own documents, among others. So I assume that they're not fabricating issues with their own software.

They may be outdated, but the point stands.

I've never heard anyone say Nvidia has better compatibility with Linux. Usually the opposite.

Unfortunately it doesn't really work that way. Those distros need to be adjusted to work properly with the hardware. For instance, if you got a ROG Ally and slapped Chimera on there you would have no sound, no WiFi, and you have to manually adjust the resolution for each game.

This would be a fairly trivial task for Asus or Lenovo, so I don't really understand why they don't do it, but they don't.

Trying to distance themselves from what they used to be so hopefully people forget all the shit they pulled.

People don't open the Facebook app or log into Facebook.com and forget all the shit they pulled because they changed their name to Meta.

I would recommend you back everything up before you do it

that's my secret: I'm always backed up.

you would need to reduce the size of your windows partition.

Already done

so you may need to move your fedora partition to the left

What does this mean?

They would also collect all of the metadata that would make you NOT want to use WhatsApp in the first place.

I haven't seen their refusal but I imagine it's for the same reason they ditched SMS.

They don't want their users confused about what is and is not a secure message.

Uh, it does not and has not sent SMS for a good while now.

I think that had more to do with symbolizing a change in the direction of the company (ie: metaverse) and also a global name for a variety of products (instead of just Facebook) rather than just trying to hide who they are. They don't even have any Meta-branded products. Facebook is still Facebook, Instagram is still Instagram, and WhatsApp is still WhatsApp.