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Should you feel bad? No. Will there always be people who want you to feel bad? Yes.

Yeah I edited it to change my wording after I posted cause I thought to myself "how fucking full of myself do I have to be to assume they're talking about me, I bet loads of people are saying that" lol

Sorry, I think there's a bit of miscommunication here. I'm one of the people who made that comment and I meant community in the people sense, and not in the subreddit sense. They can take their subreddit and move it, shred it, burn it, paint it blue, whatever. The point is, they seem to think of the people using the space as something that belongs to them, and that they can just take those people wherever they please. In reality, they have to rely on people following them, they can't just pack them up and move them, and it's very apparent that it's a very unpopular decision and clear that no one is going to follow them to world.

I'm just upset at the arrogance of them pretending they're doing this for the good of the users when they asked no one. What makes a community great is the people in it, not the people "running" it (using the term loosely, as them actually having to do things is the reason they wanted to move). If they didn't like it, they could've just passed it off to other people, but instead decided to try to pack us into a suitcase and leave.

The community isn't something that fucking belongs to you.

Yeah, the community doesn't want to migrate, the mods do.

They don't innovate because they barely have any competition

You can hate steam all you want, and people fanboying over them can be pretty annoying, but this is, imo, demonstrably false. They've pretty consistently been innovating and trying new things, even when they don't end up working well. They were very early into voice chat, back in the day your options were more or less skype, possibly mumble, and that pleas pretty much it. Relatively easy, integrated voice chat was was innovative. Similarly, being able to to stream your game to friends. I don't think this feature ever got all that use and it never worked that well for me, but it was really ahead of it's time imo. The way they handle family sharing has been both unique and consumer friendly, and also they haven't just sat on it, they've improved it. They've implemented a way to play local co-op games remotely even. One of the biggest innovations imo has been how they handle being signed in on multiple computers and being able to stream games from one computer to another. Hell, they've even innovated with hardware, with the steam link being very ahead of it's time in that regard. I'm not going to mention proton, steamOS and the deck, someone else surely has or will.

Look, we should never trust a company to be ethical or feel like they're a friend or one our side or shit like that, but I do appreciate how much new stuff they've pushed for over the years

Certainly didn't mean to say it's never useful, just not useful for me

If someone can execute arbitrary code on my computer, it doesn't matter that the disk is encrypted, because I've already booted the machine up and entered the key. I'm certainly not the most cryptographically knowledge but using LUKS on Oracle Linux, I'd enter the key once while starting up, past that point there was no difference between an encrypted and unencrypted system. It seems logical to me, then, that if something can execute arbitrary code, it's after that point, so encryption won't matter to it. Encryption is more of a solution to someone physically obtaining your hard drive and preventing them from having access to the contents simply by plugging it into their system.

Or at least that's my understanding, please correct me if I'm mistaken.

CTO4, SAP VC characteristics transaction code

Honestly... Why bother? If someone gains remote access to my system, an encrypted disk won't help. It's just a physical access preventer afaik, and I think the risk of that being necessary is very low. Encrypted my work computer because we had to and that environment also made it make more sense, I technically had sensitive customer info on it, though I worked at Oracle so of course they had to make it as convoluted and shitty as possible.

Obviously you use a half implemented java wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev that was a students practice project 4 years ago that they left public on github

Not a good one, I'd imagine. The casings real purpose afaik is to turn into shrapnel, I don't think plastic would be as effective. Then again, I believe it's common to mix screws or similar in with the explosive for more shrapnel, so maybe. Just speculating though

Hahaha your question reminded me of a scene in a space balls where they parody Darth Vaders "No, I am your father" with the exchange:

"I am your father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's, former roommate.

What does that make us?

Absolutely nothing!"

Can make for some epic moments depending on the party and setting and fight etc. My character in the first stage of the final fight of the campaign got power word killed after getting the BBEGs lair action enabling staff away from him, because taking the staff hurt him enough to put him under 100. Incredible narrative moment, didn't expect the disarm to work and he passed it off with his dying breath. Got revived in a later stage once reinforcements started showing up

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

I'm sure it varies by setting but my head canon is it's about intent. They don't need to be granted permission explicitly, they just need you to explicitly want them to enter.

I had assumed, hence my loosely related story

I went to a board game convention a month ago, it was the first time I've girlmoded for something major. They put their own signs over the bathroom signs explaining that both were gender neutral and the only difference was urinals vs stalls. That made it soooo much easier on me and I was very glad

The urge to add hydrogens to all the carbons not fully bonded is overwhelming

Awww what a cutie

Love her left side only eyebrow whiskers