sensiblepuffin

I hate to be this guy, but after being mad that Pop OS now defaults to pipewire, it's pretty fucking nice. It's stable and a little annoying to configure, but it works so much better than pulse. Perhaps consider switching?

I think the downvotes were for the thinly veiled jab you threw in at the mods.

It is a problem, you're right. We shouldn't have to rely on people with the motivation to do good. Capitalism is failing because without regulation, it motivates people to fuck each other over for an extra dime.

Even worse. The paint chip eaters voted their manufacturers into office.

You can either be publicly traded and let greedy shareholders sell things for parts or you can have private ownership and pray to God that they're benevolent. There has to be another option, surely. Maybe one where Valve becomes employee-owned with a trust/foundation backing it once Gabe dies?

They had some thinkers back then for sure

Here's the thing - Theoretically we shouldn't give a shit about his political leanings and we don't have to, because he and his company deliver a good service. I can privately think he's another asshole libertarian tech bro whose only guiding principle is "everyone should be able to do what I want, but only some people should have the money to do those things", but it doesn't change anything about Steam or Half-Life 3.

I'm not sure about that either - unless you really want your real name on a Steam account, you just change the password and the payment method and you should be fine, right?

Factually true, looks like the turnaround time is about 1-3 hours. I guess we don't have the data on submitted reports - that'd be a fun thing to add to the modlog for transparency purposes.

Pretty easy to be quick when we've seen that bullshit lie posted more times than I can count.

That is what that means, yes.

The poorly-regulated militias are currently cheering all of this on.