If I need X thing to survive, I'd rather get it from a pure and innocent source... If that's not possible, I'd rather it from the dude with too many boats who charges too much money than the one actively gloating about destroying lives literally and on a much higher scale.
Yes I know lesser evil etc... This isn't a philosophy course and I don't need what they're selling. But many do potentially and I'd rather minimize damage than just let the absolute worst be the default.
So, you are reading things I didn't write. I'm not defending him about steam games etc... The only good will here about any of it is the work toward better Linux life.
I agree billionaires shouldn't exist.
I don't like steam.
I don't really do much gaming... And it's worth stuff from GOG.
Chill out. I'm not the fanboi you are looking for.
I'm only saying perhaps he sees $$$ in a venture that is rife with much worse people doing far worse to vulnerable people.
On the off chance better access comes about from rich assholes eating each other, I'm game to at least watch.
Not advocating for our against but 2 thoughts here:
1: Gabe isn't Musk. Yes money etc but don't immediately jump there without other malfeasance please. Caution absolutely but don't ascribe one rich assholes shit to another.
2: He probably has hard data on accessibility... Possibly more than nearly anyone else. There's a HUGE portion of the population that can't use "traditional" controllers or other input devices. And that's not even going into the medical realm.
Could game Gabe be starting his villain phase? Sure! But until more negative details come out I'm just hoping this is investments he'd use toward a new steam controller.
For what it's worth, this is just damage control and first step. Deployment was trivial compared to most other ideas, so it seemed worth at least giving a go.
Our expectations are very much tempered, but trying to be optimistic on even a small reprieve.
There's a lot of truth in the bit about which one you go to....
Being a franchise, a LOT of the quality comes down to the management. My cousin was a manager and made a huge point of a meticulous tear down and cleaning of the fryers to a degree not "required". He'd budget people and hours specifically for the extra cleaning.
It showed BIG. Between the grease temperature recovering faster, excellent care about cleanliness through the shift etc, the food came out reliably fresh and not the disappointing greasy mess.
It helped that by budgeting the time instead of just forcing workers to do it while busy with customers, which also prevents being able to take the fryer offline, they workers were better treated and as result hated their job less.
I'll absolutely say this is an outlier, and that in general most fast food is terrible, especially LJS. But if you find a good location, it can be awesome... Still going to be greasy of course, but in a good way instead.
I don't use it anymore myself, but a small cost nntp service and the Arr stacks automate away the piece hunting for the most part.
I'd recommend looking over things at this link for an idea on the tools. They are great and take most of the pain out of all this. It's all open source as well.
You would still want to find an indexer (like a tracker but for Usenet information on what files to grab) and a Usenet service, but I've been away from that side long enough I'd suggest getting suggestions on those from someone else.
It sounds like perhaps torrents aren't the right solution for you. Perhaps invest in a newsgroup service instead?
You can argue what makes more sense to you as much as you like, but things work just fine for many of us.
And as to the past month or so:
That's without the credit system, but using those same torrents that you expect to just sit on. I don't use autobrr or anything like that, just basics like sonarr etc.
Most private trackers now implement a credit system that rewards for making seed available as well. Even without users downloading from you, you accrue credit just for keeping it alive and available.
If you are impatient, this won't really help, but it works well enough if you actually plan to join the community instead of hit and run.
Does this include media I grabbed but literally never opened or looked at?