Contend6248

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[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Some are very rich people, so i see no difference in supporting a big studio or someone with a big mansion and 5 sport cars tbh.

I support people trying to make a living with content either of us enjoys.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Not if it's opt-in hidden in the settings.

This is at least the only way i share analytics.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Vanguard is being bypassed as well, but users have now a compromised system to the lowest level possible.

So that isn't the solution, i would somewhat understand it if no one is able to cheat anymore, but as long as there are hacks available you can give up on kernel level anti-cheat.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's not only interests of the chinese government, they HAVE to oblige legally if they are asked to. So even if the company has the best intentions, the government overrules.

And don't make that a chinese bad guy argument, as if western companies aren't doing the same, they just don't do that officially, which one is shadier is yours to decide.

All you can do as a company or anyone is to stop harvesting data and don't plant blackboxes/backdoors in customers systems

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

You're right, even if you could win, countless huge companies will steamroll you.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's unofficial and 3rd party, by that logic any OS could be sued.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

"Google parent firm Alphabet employed 182,381 employees as of September 30th, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would only be around half a percent of the company’s total."

This is just a normal optimization, and holy fuck are they huge.

During the pandemic everyone was over-hiring, it doesn't exactly tell you what you've wrote, but you are right as a whole.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The original SteamOS is based on Debian, https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

I guess backporting everything was a pain.

SteamOS 2.0 which is used on Steamdeck (and only available on Steamdeck officially) has nothing to do with that.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They could and they would if they wouldn't profit from this in the end,

for some reasons there is no official Flatpak and they don't want to support a Snap package, they just say anything but the *.deb is unsupported, kinda weird because they use the Flatpak package on Steamdeck because that is Arch-based, i guess they are somewhat involved there.

As much as they do for the Linux movement, they should get their shit together when it comes to a cross-distro client, preferably Flatpak obviously.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why they don't take over the work and make it official with support is beyond me though.

The flatpak version hammers my DNS-server when downloading it isn't funny anymore, 100s requests a minute for the same domains, it ignores the TTL too.

I think they also use the flatpak version on Steamdeck? Really weird.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which 3rd party audit says that

Please don't link a random news site or blog post

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

GrapheneOS isn't a benchmark, it's a choice of a random distro essentially, others choose differently.

If you think Chromium is safer or more secure than Firefox, you are mistaking, just take a look at the changelogs of both

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