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How many embedded DRM-controlled news article videos are you watching on your living room tv though?
Obviously it’s only a fraction of the overall DRMed content out there but it exists, most notably for live sports that TV stations stream for free on their website but require paid subscriptions when using streaming apps.
Then I won’t watch those, simple as.
Doesn’t change facts for millions of others.
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Random clips on the web are DRMed these days, like news articles with an embedded video. Many CMSes just DRM all clips. Totally BS but I’ve seen the video frame staying black on a bunch of sites now.
People who connect TVs to the Internet only invite malware. They usually don’t receive big fixes after a few years and tend to spy on all watched content.
Pretty sure DRMed content refuses to play on those.
And the US are a base of Iran ally Russia.
If meeting sales projections fails, heads roll. Literally.
No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.
damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.
“AI at its core” is a BS marketing phrase. Obviously there is no AI in the actual operating system core.
If the permission was necessary, the Flathub package would enable it by default. I can’t remember ever having a bad experience with the Flathub package.
When I first read that the ship a dedicated Distrobox container just for Steam, I was utterly confused as to what the benefit would be and I still cannot see it. Maybe the Bazzite developers dislike some of the restricted permissions of the Steam Flatpak or maybe they just want to package it on their own but the benefit for the user escapes me.
I’ve read another comment and then I realized it’s because of Bazzite’s Game Mode session. It’s a special login session and not just Steam in Big Picture Mode. Flatpaks cannot be used for this kind of specific use case.
I still had to go multi-arch on my x64 Debian system, leading to a lot of problems…
That’s what Flatpak is for. 32bit crap is moved into its own corner without interfering with any system level stuff.
Back then Steam was a downgrade.
It’s not really enshittification when “Google reads your mail” has been the entire point since the launch of GMail. Relevant ads, grouping mails into topics, find spam, etc. has always been the selling point of GMail.
Sounds like they’re leaving the option open for Android developers to make their APK distributions compatible with Steam to play on Frame.
It was first reported months ago that Valve is involved with Waydroid (Android app compatibility for Linux with Wayland) and then at the Frame announcement confirmed to ship on Frame.
This could also potentially mean that Steam itself comes to Android (at least in the EU) to allow cross-buy and cross-progression.
Google is developing a Linux runtime for Android, Valve are making an ARM version of Steam, so it could be usable but I don’t think it’ll light the world on fire.
Most sales happen on Steam
I literally already wrote that.
except those few rare examples.
Those “rare examples” combine to a massive revenue. In case of EGS and Fortnite, it’s very clear that EGS is installed and actively used on a giant number of PCs, so the installed base is there. It’s not a Steam monopoly if the user base signed up to and uses EGS for Fortnine and such.
And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.
The biggest PC games aren’t on Steam. Minecraft isn’t, Fortnite isn’t, Roblox isn’t. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.
More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?