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Kind of have had that for 40+ years now

Just a reminder that Trump has vowed to punish his political opponents.

Don't think this can't happen here.

Not to mention that this is exactly how you create more terrorists (and Bibi knows this)

Jesus

I own original hardware and buy 100% of my games but sometimes you just wanna run games that aren't originally crossplatform on your Steamdeck for convenience, or on a PC with resolution upscaling, or for ease of streaming the gameplay, or tons of other legitimate reasons.

Can't wait until our courts decide that, due to the prevalence of "remasters" that are just upscaled ROMs running on emulators, that this is no longer considered "fair use."

It's definitely not extremely common.

Surely use-case is important? Someone running a server that's on 24/7 vs. someone running it on a laptop or desktop that they shut down every day.

I imagine it varies wildly by distro, hardware, use-case, etc.

Linux systems usually consume more energy than identical systems with other operating systems

Is this true?

I got a Framework, and the 16:10 aspect ratio allows for the two bars without messing up most applications as they're mostly geared toward 16:9. Full screen games go over both bars.

lol

Yeah, plenty of white supremacist gangs in prison already. Would be redundant.

FLOSS software

Lol

The unfortunate thing is that, in the long run, that strategy will probably be super effective. Unless Europe (with the only internet regulations that actually have teeth) does something harsh enough, they will probably pay a few small fines over this at most. Cost of doing business and probably baked in already.

Pretty sad when non-Americans seem to understand the severity of this threat better than people here.

For sure... Just one more reason to adopt co-determination laws like those in Germany.

Public or private, if the board of the company actually contained literal workers, it could make things so much better.

Totally. I wasn't trying to rag on Valve... More just a comment about capitalism in general and how shitty it is.

These products are experimental and usually sold at or near cost not to make money but to prove to the market there is a need and a demand.

Well, no... I think it's more akin to the concept of "loss-leaders". Get people in the door and while they're there, they'll buy a game or two. Which is where their real profits come from.

In the end, it's still just a business strategy intended to result in profits for Valve.

However, that being said, the fact that they don't have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits and keep that stock price up at (literally) all costs, allows them to operate the way they do.

But don't get it twisted, they are a for-profit corporation, and their ultimate goal is making money. They're just not as shitty about it.

The bar is REALLY fucking low these days.

FIGHT!

They're also one of the few (possibly only) that has not gone public.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure.