For the majority there is sadly a very simple answer…

Reason #1 to be at risked of being impacted by that malware? You don’t care and won’t read a technical article either.

by factor of 3 obviously…

And adhering to the law would kill my thriving “pay me a dollar and I allow you to club a billionaire to death”-business. So what?

Wouldn’t it be great if just one company per 10 articles about European companies “looking for alternatives” was actually ditching US services for European alternatives?

I actually like what Steam did for Linux gaming in general, but in the end it is slowly becoming a crutch. Why should I spin up the Steam client (that is neither fast nor easy on resources, too) every time I want to play a non-steam game?

Again… it’s nice what Valve is doing in general and that most of the stuff is open source and thus can be back ported to Wine.

I however find it concerning that the number of people doing so seems to be constantly decreasing. And I don’t actually understand why the majority of gamers -people that are insanely obsessed with very small FPS or other perfomance increases sometimes- seems to be content with using Steam as the one-size-fits-all solution for games. Just simple Wine Staging can often match the performance for older games, for all games once you start backporting some patches and fixes developed for Proton. And yet the contributors seem to get less by the day and a lot of projects pre-compiling patched Wine versions are vanishing for a lack of interest.

In short: I don’t get that voluntary lock-in to Steam for very little convenience of having a fancy interface for starting your games.

Activists and consumer groups can do a better job exploiting social media virality to reach young Americans.

I actually doubt they can, as the algorithms controlling visibility are all about money and they can’t compete in that regard with those big actors actively working for the stultification of people.

Also: not an US problem at all, but a global one.

I am very unique… solely based on the the referer 🤣

*einmal den Certbot umarm*

Fair…

PS: Wait… that’s a hobby and they don’t get paid for lying? That’s even worse than I thought.

And just lke with the war on drugs, countries will realize it’s a lost cause. And will then instead try to coopt the system to spread their own desinformation. If you can’t win, exploit it for your own gains…

Welcome to our wonderful post-factual age.