It’s looking increasingly likely that the US Department of Justice is going to succeed in their antitrust efforts against Google. Currently, Mozilla gets something like 85% of their funding from Google for being the default search engine in Firefox. That may be deemed anticompetitive behavior by a judge, at which point Mozilla will be left with very little funding compared to their current situation.

I’d bet these actions are in anticipation of that happening.

Does the following sound familiar when she’s done something that you know was wrong and you confronted her?

That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

That’s called The Narcissist’s Prayer. Narcissists are incapable of ever accepting that they’re to blame for anything. You will always be miserable in a relationship with such a person.

That’s just standard in Russia

I don’t get the downvotes. Is Green Day that unpopular?

Lemmy declared it don’t care no more?

Yeah, do it!

I had a similar touch when I was younger. I’ve worked for Circuit City, Toys ‘R’ Us, and Blockbuster Video. Sadly, Best Buy somehow survived.

The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.

I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.

I suppose they could have had evidence that the positive reviews were paid for and manufactured. Not that I trust Google to do anything that isn’t to their direct benefit.

Thank you for working on this and for sharing with everyone!

Well you may be right and Valve may only be aiming to support some of the already-existing handhelds out there that are ARM based.

Valve does know how to play the long game on support, so time will tell.

I could see a budget Deck with an ARM processor, but I still doubt the flagship model wouldn’t be x86-64

Perhaps a passthrough to a VM running Windows would work? Though that’s probably a lot of work unless you already use one.

This was an underlying plot point in Metal Gear Solid 2.

I literally could not figure out how to get my GOG copy of Fallout 3 running on my Steam Deck, nor could I find anyone else online discussing what would make it work. I’m sure if I’d wanted to put in the work that I could have gotten it running. I was feeling lazy though, so I bought a copy on Steam. It works without any configuration.

Valve has taken a Linux PC and given it a handheld console form. I couldn’t be happier with it.

Not everybody subscribes every single Linux community

Well then those people must be made to understand our peaceful ways… by force!

Did you check the Discover store?

Also, Steam Link is another easy option for remote control.

Edit: https://www.gamesinhand.com/post/use-your-phone-to-control-your-steam-deck

I would have signed it too, but only because I’m awesome on fiddle and I could totally win my soul back.

Chromium is open source. Chrome is not. Open source also doesn’t mean that you can’t charge for the compiled binaries. But that isn’t my point. My point is that the reason it’s free is that you’re actually paying for it through the value of Google tracking and storing everything you do, but as a society have don’t have to structure services this way.

It doesn’t have to be free. People used to pay for licensed software with money instead of their private data. We can do that again, or there’s still open source options like Firefox and it’s derivatives.

Last week, but that asshole had it coming!