LazyBane

I'd argue that Valve does more than just take 30% as a middle man. Between Steam Input, Proton, the beta built in recording system, the Forums for every game, community system and the marketplace, having your game on Steam is a massive value generator for the consumer and by extension developers.

30% might not be what the industry standard should be, but Valve isn't just providing a standard digital distribution service.

There was the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. It's not a whole country going anarchist and no doubt the limited amount of people with the nessisary skill sets to have a functioning society (judging from the food garden they set up) held back the viability of the protest, but in general the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest was widly seen as a wild failure.

It's an interesting thing to look up on, and I'd definitely recommend anyone who is serious about anarchism to study it for the potential pit falls of an anarchist society that they would need to work out first.

Tech companies as soon as they are publicly traded:

I've been using Nobara for gaming a while now, and it's certainly a good choice from by experience. It's a modified Fedora distro that's designed for gaming.

It does for software becuase when somthing gains enough marketshare it then becomes somthing that businesses start to consider as a general option.

Like the reason Adobe gets by despite the culture for just pirating their software is becuase even piracy gives market share, and Adobe products are so commonly used that corporations feel obliged to use Adobe licences in their projects.

First we'd need to ask what could a cloak or cape provide for the modern man that jackets and coats don't already do while giving the wearer free movement of their arms?

The cape's association with wealth and nobility is also hurt by the fact that the upperclasses these days are more interested in appropriating the style of lower class people (I.e. pre-distressed jeans) to try and appear as more down to earth.

It's crazy to think that people are still making new games on Unity after it's been made painfully obvious that the company is in the corporate downward spiral of enshittification.

I wonder if they'll cry "the AI did it!" when the chat bot hallucinates up some random misinformation.

I think it's more to include anything that's sexually abusive instead of what is just pornograthic.

Back in the day, Nintendo got big on quality control. That's less of a selling point now that almost every big publisher is pushing for yearly releases and devs need to rush out unfinished games to meet corporate expectations. A console was also just miles ahead in user friendliness that a computer up until around the PS4/Xbone.

The way forward for consoles these days is to have more interesting hardware, but Microsoft is resistant to just having gyro in the xbox controller so don't hold your breath for the next xbox being anything worth looking at.

I'm gonna say the L word

Honestly, if there was just a modern windows XP that could run the programs I dualboot for, I wouldn't be dualbooting!

Modern windows is just so bloated and cluttered.