• innovation (Steam does not innovate Steam, they r&d othe products)

But do they not?
Proton is a clear innovation they’ve implemented into their store front.
They have new lab experiments every so often, currently there’s a release calendar.
Family sharing.
Game recording.

For some of those you could argue it’s an already existing concept, but even so. The implementation is certainly novel. And they are certainly continuing to improve a store front unmatched in features by any other.

all other platforms target devs shareholders

Not necessarily.

Ubisoft might argue that it will open up another attack vector, with isn’t entirely unreasonable. But they could support it.

They’d certainly have fewer.

I can’t say having to fiddle around with Proton versions is exactly intuitive, though it has gotten better since last I tried it a year or so ago.

It is still not quite as smooth as it is on Windows, and I have tech-normie friends who want to do nothing more than download and press play.

BattlEye supports Linux, Ubisoft doesn’t.

EasyAntiCheat and BattlEye both support Linux/Proton, though not all devs have enabled/updated it.

Is this part of that decomposition process?

I shall make a donation once again

Das

John Madden

They use it to inflate the production cost so actors/others do not get any % revenue as, technically, the movie made no money.

The CEO of brave, Brendan Eich, is opposed to same-sex marriage.
They, too, are working on their own index, but I cannot support that company and would suggest you seek alternatives.

And, though Ecosia/DDG don’t always show what I want, it’s very easy to add a !g to my already existing query and get put through to google. Which is rare, mind you, but comes in handy every so often. Does that mean it sometimes takes a *bit* of effort to get the result I’m after? Yeah, but that is a sacrifice I’m happy to make when it comes to supporting alternatives.

This blacklist is a pretty neat way to block a good amount of those AI slop results.

I think you missed a part of their comment:

Block ads and use a different search engine?

Both Ecosia and DuckDuckGo have served me pretty well. Kagi also seems somewhat interesting.
Ecosia is working with Qwant on their own index, the first version of which has already gone online I believe. So they’re no longer exclusively relying on Bing/Google for their back-end.

Search engines will still give Wikipedia results at the top for relevant searches. Heck, you can search Wikipedia itself directly!

Both Ecosia and DuckDuckGo support some form of “bangs”, if I tack !w onto my search it’ll immediate go through to Wikipedia.
DuckDuckGo has even introduced an AI image filter, which is not perfect but still pretty good.

No. You’re exactly right. Continue as you are.

Is it though? Because ‘chat’ means cat in French, not gespräch. What would be a funny German pun…

I want to watch it because i think it’s important but it is not good for my mental wellbeing to hear about… everything going on s.s

(I still keep up with some stuff)

It’s because during (boasting?) exaggerated claims are often made, so it’s totally fiiiine and legal!

Consumer protection is such a sham.