I agree mostly, but Valve employees are reportedly paid an incredible amount of money compared to the market average, so underpaying would probably only refer to the hefty (but industry standard) 30% cut of game sales they take from game publishers.

Excellent news

We don't have lawyers on Lemmy lol, only privacy/Linux enthusiasts.

Sam Bankman Fried pardon incoming.

Exactly. Introducing vulnerabilities to everyone means that foreign powers will be able to use it to spy on EU citizens as well. Fucking bananas.

Please let this finally be the year of the Linux desktop.

"Game preservationists have long argued that a move to a digital-only future will cause games to be lost forever if proper preservation measures aren’t put in place."

Unfortunately, even physical game discs so often don't contain the full game files and requires access to servers in order to download and access the game. No longer is buying physical the answer to the game preservation problem.

Some seriously soft language is being used by reporters. Just call it what it is. It was a clear sieg heil, twice!!

Nah, I'm good thanks.

Agreed. Clearly it must do simply what is said on the tin, otherwise why ban it?

It's not opt-in as far as I'm aware. Just using Google photos makes it so. I suppose I'm deep enough in the google ecosystem (well, let's say my wife is not going to move away from it) to be desensitised to how messed up it kind of is.

I was more talking about how other people (i.e. your friends) will take photos of you and post it on social media or even just keep them in their google photos, and meta/google will build a shadow profile for you without your consent via facial recognition.

For people interested in tech edutainment he's alright and has mass appeal. My favourite videos have been more of the interesting ones showing how fast his ridiculous fibre connections are in his house.

So much terrible click bait has meant I haven't bothered clicking in a year or so though.