Yeah us politics don’t really impact anyone else on the planet outside of the 50 states

Is this politics?

Yeah god knows I was never like that as a kid, wishing I could be home playing my N64 instead of sitting on a car ride for hours and hours and hours on end. Who would ever prefer video games to the freshly recycled air pumped over you for the 100000th time that day while staring out at corn?

Cool moral panic anecdote

Was someone on your lawn this morning?

That’s the majestic and ancient lobster, and having an emoji for such a fine creature makes sense.

This is Bitcoin

I’m so torn between “good that the kids learning to do the math” and “kid is still basically paying for Barbie dream house clothing packs which change the actual game exactly 0”

Net positive I think, and good on op for nudging kinder the right direction, but…damn have game companies gotten us under their fingers.

PCs are, steam is not

It’s primary purpose is DRM which is a net burden to society. Everything else you list is to help you forget that.

30% is mad decent. For all the haters on California’s insane tax, steam takes a 3x larger cut on all income, and California build roads with it. Steam maybe develops half-baked features.

Gog

The most cleverly disguised url in history. Come on man, don’t be ridiculous.

You’re gross

Not ethical, yes pos

Caddy certainly was the easier option but it’s as complex as nginx now and id argue it’s hard to to use.

This is the most open time period for hardware as far as options go since like, the 90s. Microsoft isn’t taking away options.

It’s not hard to set up if you already have sufficient baseline technical knowledge to feel comfortable copy-pasting the right commands from the Internet with hope that you don’t brick your computer (which ironically fedora or opensuse kinda did although I eventually found out how to work around the failure which makes my laptop permanently unable to use an older version of Linux lololol).

Arch was really easy to set up, I followed tutorials for fedora from fedora which never worked, and opensuse worked until a power outage then never again. So easy. So simple.

Secureboot with shim is the easiest, the arch (/standalone) way seems to work better and more securely since it’s my own keys, but again depends on feeling a lot of unearned confidence. Some distros like Ubuntu and suse include mechanisms for secureboot, others do not, hence hit or miss.

Tldr I know what you’re telling me, and from my pov and experience none of that changes what I said for the average “go on, try Linux, you’ll like it” user.

It’s a real challenge to get a fully encrypted system with secure boot (easier now but still hit or miss with Linux) and tpm.

What you’re describing is the user level security model which is as you said restrictive enough to be annoying, and more controlled than windows.

Edit: undid autocorrect from user level to user never 🙄

I don’t know what you’re responding to, I’m responding to a comment about refresh rate.

Keep in mind it’s still a drastic reduction in security by default.

25% reduction in refresh rate to only 4x the historical standard that most humans alive grew up with balanced against any semblance of privacy seems like an easy win…