1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.

So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 9 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.

Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.

What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?

I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.

How often did you elect a socialist government you sickos?! I am disgusted.

Where do I sign up btw? Just so, you know, I can avoid becoming Portuguese.

Bruh, you can share the truth on pretty much any way imaginable. Why would you ban one platform, and out of all of them TikTok, to “control the narrative”? Everyone knows what’s going on, there have already been plenty protests because of it, it’s way too late to control anything and maybe most importantly: TikTok offered the US more control and they declined. They straight up proposed to do whatever the hell the government wants if they can stay and it was dismissed.

When you have not thanked your chatbot of choice even once

Random guess: Tiktok might actually generate revenue

100% agree, anonymized data is pretty much irrelevant to the GDPR. An exception would be if it can be de-anonymized with reasonable means.

Sounds reasonable enough. I think in most of Europe that’s about when kids finish elementary school.

I have used Google, DDG, Bing and Ecosia (which is basically Bing) at this point and ingl, none of them really stands out for its results. If anything, I think DDG and Bing beat Google.

Google might be the first company to create a monopoly out money and apathy. The apathy of users who don’t care about their search engine enough to even change the default.

Firefox enhanced tracking protection is pretty based here if you ask me

Heh, we the best. Now excuse me while I use my amazing brainpower to watch questionable anime and get more depressed 🫥

I don’t even get why they care. Can’t you just inform users once, then drop support and still collect their data?

Great, now we need to convince Linus that anti-cheat is definitely worth being implemented in Linux or what?

Might be a fun project tho… Actually, might become the anti-cheat to rule them all. Who likes cheaters anyway? 🤔

The industry chases whatever makes the most money. It’s the artists who are fortunate and/or hardworking enough to not do that who I aspire - and who’s games I want to play.

I love how in security, we have gone from “use strong passwords” to “don’t make your own passwords”, because people will just refuse to learn.

I mean, I get it, I like small bezels too, but it’s pretty low on the list…

Lucky you, for me they basically ruined group chats completely. I get notifications for the wrong topic. Reply to a notification, you might end up posting in a couple ones. The client will sometimes jump to the very beginning of the chat history. Sometimes I don’t get notifications for a topic, sometimes old messages appear as new ones.

It has become next to unusable for me.

Plus the bugginess of the new features. Create a group with topics? You’ll have a great time…

And a lot of quality of life improvements are still missing. Use more than one client? You don’t expect proper sync, do you? True E2EE (secret chats)? Well, no more than one client to begin with. Plus you lose a lot of features. Auto-delte messages? Well, you can, but others can just turn it off. Plus you can’t enable or disable it for all chats at once.

What really weirds me out tho is how aggressively they try to make you sync your contacts…

Wasn’t this a thing forever ago and didn’t Nintendo just laugh at them? They just had a super successful console and now have more successful IPs than ever, they would be straight up insane to sell a business that runs this good.

Afaik they use your phones contacts. If you want to delete one, you need to delete the number from your phone.

Trusting the CCP with your texts is a fantastic idea with no chance of backfiring.

No chance of firing back at the hit-squad that’ll be after you, if you send Winnie the Pooh memes that is.

Maybe if the EU did this, something like that would happen. With the UK? Pull your headquarters out there and dare them to block your service.

Go ahead, ban all messaging services and cause riots. I’ll wait.

I’m very curious how this is going to play out. This mostly concerns the core userbase, as in mods and the people who are the most active on Reddit. If a significant portion of those wanders off (or is straight up banned), I could see the platform desolate slowly and painfully.

I mean, they lose content and moderation. I would be very surprised if they can replace the volunteers and still maintain the quality of the moderation.