That's just not true

The GOP is sending their best

Niger is close to a slur and is probably overwhelmingly used as a way to bypass filters as opposed to actually taking about the African country

A launcher owned by an analytics company? In my OS owned by an ad company?

When you ask a British person how much they weigh and they start talking about rocks

If a company is "too big to fail" the punishment should be that the government bails them out, then breaks it up into smaller parts that are free to fail or succeed naturally without government intervention

The enshittification will continue until profit margins improve

"Did the former president try to overthrow the government, and should he be allowed to be the president again?" is an unprecedented question, of course the answer will be unprecedented

Yeah it's definitely shitty if they really only give 7 days notice that your account is going from read-only to suspended and deleted, but after basically not paying your cloud storage bill for like 6 months this is a pretty predictable outcome

"If all these damn people would stop VOTING we might be able to get some of our 'highly popular' policy through"

If those Christian nationalists could read they'd be very upset

When you regularly receive so many """loans""" and lavish 6 figure vacations from """friends""", you can't be expected to remember to officially report all of them, completely understandable

I'm not trying to hate on Gabe Newell or Valve or anything (and not to say that it isn't a pretty objectively win-win) but I think there's some pretty easily explainable motivation behind this that isn't just "out of the kindness of their hearts"

I think the product they intend to sell is actually the software and services (there's a reason the Deck seems to be sold basically at cost), they're betting on these PC-based portable gaming devices taking off and being a viable segment of the market that other hardware companies will want to invest into, and if they do, what highly functional and easy to integrate (since it's all open source) operating system (and its subsequent game store integration) might they be more likely to use?

And why push upstream? They're by far the largest PC games provider, so more games running on more (Linux) devices can only really serve to financially benefit them