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  • The emulator is more likely that the Switch 2 was supposed to be released this year and ended up getting pushed to next year. This means they have to support the Switch fully for another year and it's a harder sell when it's easy for customers to make a choice between:

    • A Switch and 3ish games

    Or

    • A Steam Deck that can play all the Switch games for free

    When these are both the same price. The fact that instructions were easy to find and follow didn't help.

  • Seems everyone jumped to conclusions about this article.

    Yes, iPhones are blocked because they lack security. This is military, so they aren't worried about basic malware. They are worried about government level security issues (Pegasus, etc...). And let's be blunt, on this level, Apple keeps showing that they lack security in the real world situations. Yet the latest of a long list of iPhones being targeted and hacked.

    Now, where people seem to be badly jumping to conclusions is that the article points out that "many" devices will be banned, so no, I doubt the latest Samsung Galaxy phone will be allowed. They are most likely going to require people use a Samsung Tactical Edition smartphone. These are designed for military usage and prevent phones from being secretly turned on for recording private conversations by hacks like Pegasus. These phones have been around for a few years now, and have likely been thoroughly tested and approved now.

    This isn't some knee-jerk patriotic requirement, but a real understanding of what is and isn't a secure device, combined with the fact that Korea has to deal with a more and more aggressive China. They need real security for real world military.

  • but also informal communications such as private phone calls (within military buildings).

    They are worried about iOS being insecure as it's been shown time and time again that iOS devices keep getting hacked and this kind of thing happens. Here is the latest issue with it from 12 days ago.

    When dealing with the military, you need to make sure your devices are secure, not "well basic users most likely couldn't break into it."

    Now, the title is terrible because it does point out later in the article that many devices will be banned, so it's most likely not just iPhones, but also off the shelf Samsung phones as well. They will most likely want a secure smartphone like a Samsung Tactical Edition smartphone, as those are secure and have military designs.

  • You mean the Samsung "Tactical Edition" smartphones?

    They've been around for years. They were originally built for the Korean military. And it didn't cost them an "astronomical" amount of money.

  • Valve should enable a feature to make Steam keys self destruct for these scams. Let them generate a key that is valid for a few hours and if it didn't get redeemed in that time frame, it no longer works. A key only valid until 5pm of issue date will let reviewers redeem it in time, but resellers will most likely have a dud by the time they try to sell it.

  • You turn it off. It says so in the link.

    User Controls: Android users always have full control over which of their devices participate in the Find My Device network and how those devices participate. Users can either stick with the default and contribute to aggregated location reporting, opt into contributing non-aggregated locations, or turn the network off altogether.

  • Because doing that would be leaving money on the table

  • "I didn't know what it was, how was I supposed to know not to delete it?"

  • Forgot to add "Add a comma in your password, so if the all the user logins get leak, it will destroy the CSV file it gets uploaded to".

  • More like it's because it doesn't support Mac as much as they want them to.

  • It is illegal to a degree, it violates rules and regulations with the IRS. When they back a politician, they are supposed to lose their church non-profit status. But that doesn't happen because any move to it would cause a huge "the government is attacking out religious freedoms/churchs".

    In fact it's now a religious event every year called "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" to purposefully break these laws.

  • I think the reason why is its a powerful computer and if they dont already have a good computer, why not make this their main PC? It would be cheaper to buy a dock, monitor, keyboard and mouse (under $200), than buy another device with the same specs.

  • Not the hardest. Worst case, install Boxes from Discovery app and spin a VM of a different OS. Make it your "main" OS for apps that won't work on SteamOS.

  • I think they meant JVMs.