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- Comment on I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do 2 weeks ago:
To me any device that cant load a custom operating system isnt even worth talking about, so yeah the steam machine just wins no matter what as long as it works as a computer. Open hardware rocks :D
- Comment on I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do 2 weeks ago:
Nah they dont get a pass (as you can clearly see from this article…) but people will be less critical than for the companies that have been established in the console hardware sector for multiple decades. People that are too consoomer brained to deal with a couple temporary bugs should just buy consoles and stay boring.
- Comment on I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do 2 weeks ago:
Because those other consoles are not general purpose computers that have value without the original OS. A steam machine is just a compact desktop computer that happens to have a fancy version of steam on it. The fact that the OS is largely open source and hackable and the fact that valve contributes uncountable amounts of dev hours worth of code back to the FOSS community also helps.
- Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux 2 weeks ago:
They have been saying that on and off for years. Im sure it will come eventually but its impossible to tell when that will be.
- Comment on Steam Machine LED support on Linux has been merged into OpenRGB 2 weeks ago:
Oh okay cool. Thanks for actually checking.
- Comment on Steam Machine LED support on Linux has been merged into OpenRGB 2 weeks ago:
From a very surface level look at the code it looks like the module disconnects the data coming from steam while OpenRGB is active. But i dont really do C so i might be totally off here.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing 2 months ago:
There is absolutely no way that 350€ was not a loss for them. The also basically said that indirectly. And if you include all the software dev work that goes into the platform it gets even more cost intensive for them.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing 2 months ago:
people would start buying them for other uses too
They very much are…
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing 2 months ago:
They were definitely selling at a huge loss with the original prices and depending on how hard their suppliers got hit, they might still be selling at a loss now. The game sales will make up for it.
- Comment on The Steam Deck OLED's price hikes have killed its status as the best deal in PC games hardware 2 months ago:
Also, even at the same price point the steam deck would win because of its build quality, repairability and software support.
- Comment on Discord joke that it's The Year of the Linux Desktop 2 months ago:
The 11% for steam users that selected english language afaik
- Comment on Discord joke that it's The Year of the Linux Desktop 2 months ago:
I mean it probably will be. Im somewhat confident that linux will get close to 10% on steam this year. gamingonlinux.com/…/steam-survey-for-april-2026-s…
- Comment on Road to Vostok's hot start on Steam has "secured the entire production budget" the Finnish survival shooter needs for "years to come", dev says 4 months ago:
This is made in Godot btw. One of the poster children for Godots 3D capabilities.
- Comment on Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI 4 months ago:
We have known about the ties between the EU officials pushing this and the AI industry for years at this point, im not surprised OpenAI is one of them.
- Comment on Proton launches new "Meet" privacy-focused conferencing platform 4 months ago:
Its so obvious they want to become the next google its cringe. Friends dont let friends use proton slop.
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 5 months ago:
Speedtest probably gets billions of visitors a month, thats a lot of IPs and browser data you can harvest and sell.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 5 months ago:
Ah damn so it requires an app. Sadge :(
I want one that has a “home base” like this that just works without my phone and serves a local webinterface that i can access from my computer/phone. That would allow you to VPN into you home network to access it remotely.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 5 months ago:
Yeah i realized that now :)
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 5 months ago:
Im talking about message content, images, contact networks, behavioural patterns, etc.
All that can be inferred from just the serverside data even if the client sends only whats necessary.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 5 months ago:
That wouldnt even help much. The issue is them being in control of the servers and that its not e2ee. Even if the client is open source, they still get all the data and control.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 5 months ago:
Can you share the model? People were asking me about this recently and said that there are no good alternatives to ring.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
KeePass or nothing :)
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Maybe it was just an honest intern and no hacking took place.
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 8 months ago:
By asking users for almost no identifiable information, Merrill wants to protect them from one of the most intractable privacy problems in modern technology: Despite whatever surveillance-resistant communications apps you might use, phone carriers will always know which of their customers’ phones are connecting to which cell towers and when. Carriers have frequently handed that information over to data brokers willing to pay for it—or any FBI or ICE agent that demands it with a court order
This is pretty pointless i believe. Your sim location can always be triangulated which means you will immediately identified if you ever go home with the sim card active.
All the feds have to do is either know where you live, or any specific location they know you were at, or your phone number and they will instantly have the same degree of insight as they would have had if you signed up to the provider with your name.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 8 months ago:
These loading time projections were based on industry data
Good reminder that lots of industry “knowledge” is just as scientific as the story your great grandpa always used to tell about the war. So much stuff just gets established once and then never questioned again.
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 8 months ago:
This is enough to keep something like an ESP32 running throughout the night, but it would be way easier to just add a little battery instead.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 8 months ago:
Proton is definitely no good. Ads, freemium, AI garbage, Bad 3rd party client compatibility, CEO loves Trump, collecting excessive metadata that they are then regularly forced to hand over to the cops, etc.
Its better not to put all your eggs in one basket so dont try to find a single provider for all your needs.
All email services will be able to read your emails unless you encrypt them yourself (PGP). So there are no “private” email providers really. What you should look for is just a functional provider that works well with proper clients like Thunderbird (available for desktop and mobile).
This is a list of many tried and tested servers, just pick any of the “OK” ones: providers.delta.chat
Deltachat is an app that allows you easily use email in and end to end encrypted way while making it look like a standard instant messenger. For this to work properly the provider needs to support 3rd party clients properly, so this list gives you a good look at the technical quality of the email provider.See how Outlook, Proton and Tutanota are non functional? Thats because they dont implement the email standard properly in order to lock users into their platform and apps.
- Comment on Unity games are coming to Fortnite as Epic continue attempting to build a metaverse thing 8 months ago:
Im not gonna lie tho, i love minigames in games. Gwent in Witcher 3 and the arcade boxes in fallout for example.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 8 months ago:
Yep. Indie games are boomin as usual :D
- Comment on "Stop this from happening again": UK politician calls out Rockstar over GTA 6 developer firings 8 months ago:
Wdym, again? You need to punish them so hard they would never even dream of doing anything like it again. Prison for the decision makers is not too much.