They don’t innovate because they barely have any competition

You can hate steam all you want, and people fanboying over them can be pretty annoying, but this is, imo, demonstrably false. They’ve pretty consistently been innovating and trying new things, even when they don’t end up working well. They were very early into voice chat, back in the day your options were more or less skype, possibly mumble, and that pleas pretty much it. Relatively easy, integrated voice chat was was innovative. Similarly, being able to to stream your game to friends. I don’t think this feature ever got all that use and it never worked that well for me, but it was really ahead of it’s time imo. The way they handle family sharing has been both unique and consumer friendly, and also they haven’t just sat on it, they’ve improved it. They’ve implemented a way to play local co-op games remotely even. One of the biggest innovations imo has been how they handle being signed in on multiple computers and being able to stream games from one computer to another. Hell, they’ve even innovated with hardware, with the steam link being very ahead of it’s time in that regard. I’m not going to mention proton, steamOS and the deck, someone else surely has or will.

Look, we should never trust a company to be ethical or feel like they’re a friend or one our side or shit like that, but I do appreciate how much new stuff they’ve pushed for over the years

Certainly didn’t mean to say it’s never useful, just not useful for me

If someone can execute arbitrary code on my computer, it doesn’t matter that the disk is encrypted, because I’ve already booted the machine up and entered the key. I’m certainly not the most cryptographically knowledge but using LUKS on Oracle Linux, I’d enter the key once while starting up, past that point there was no difference between an encrypted and unencrypted system. It seems logical to me, then, that if something can execute arbitrary code, it’s after that point, so encryption won’t matter to it. Encryption is more of a solution to someone physically obtaining your hard drive and preventing them from having access to the contents simply by plugging it into their system.

Or at least that’s my understanding, please correct me if I’m mistaken.

CTO4, SAP VC characteristics transaction code

Honestly… Why bother? If someone gains remote access to my system, an encrypted disk won’t help. It’s just a physical access preventer afaik, and I think the risk of that being necessary is very low. Encrypted my work computer because we had to and that environment also made it make more sense, I technically had sensitive customer info on it, though I worked at Oracle so of course they had to make it as convoluted and shitty as possible.

Hahaha your question reminded me of a scene in a space balls where they parody Darth Vaders “No, I am your father” with the exchange:

"I am your father’s, brother’s, nephew’s, cousin’s, former roommate.

What does that make us?

Absolutely nothing!"

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

I’m sure it varies by setting but my head canon is it’s about intent. They don’t need to be granted permission explicitly, they just need you to explicitly want them to enter.

You’re better off banned from hexbear tbh, the place is a cesspit

inb4 this comment gets removed

Circumference? No, diameter!

Yep, that’s what I meant by doing it automatically.

Oh lmao I misread it. Nevermind me

If I’m willing to cold bloodedly kill people for the “greater good”, then I’ve definitely already accepted I’m shredding my soul.

Although when someone tells you how terrible they are, listen.

Lower power basically does this automatically. Do extra time on lower power and it’s way better with no additional effort required

Dayzie or Lewis, everyone smells, who cares

Lmao no way it’s faster for more trucks to go over the GW bridge than go around NYC entirely they’ll hit an equilibrium damn quick

I just wanted to let you know how you phrased your first sentence says the opposite of what you mean, I believe

I just want to say that that gave me a lot of happiness, watching the reddit simulator aquarium. Thanks for doing it

Honestly I think the grossest part of eating boogers is putting dirty fingers in your mouth