I hold a weekly project review/coordination meeting via Teams where we discuss all our project statuses, due dates, etc with the relevant team members, make new assignments, etc. And while our new offices are being built I’m exiled to the conference room instead of my desk so that my talking doesn’t annoy people who aren’t in the meeting.

Everything is being tracked on a spreadsheet, and I’m sharing my screen while updating everything and I’m having to live-type in front of 20 people and my shitty laptop keyboard.

It’s the worst.

Those are 2 excellent reasons to hate it.

They don’t even need to donate.

He’s openly selling access to the while house through his crypto scheme. They’re not even pretending to run it through a campaign.

Because Apple prohibited that.

If you delete your steam account or decide you no longer want to ise their login/launcher or Valve decides to ban you, what happens to all your past purchases?

You’re locked in. You just have Stockholm Syndrome for the company that started the online requirement bullshit everything has today by locking Half-Life 2 behind a mandatory online service, then letting other devs force the same bullshit instead of just loading up a disc and playing the game.

One of my University students asked me the other day if I was doing anything special for the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith.

I told him he needs to remember I control his grade.

Look into Xreal glasses.

I wonder if this font would screw up ocr?

I was slightly wrong about the order. I was actually talking about Black Mesa, which was in the same initial batch of 10 games.

Steam Greenlight was a program where independent games without a publisher could release games on Steam, but it was absolutely exclusive. They couldn’t sell their game elsewhere.

Literally the first game released on the program was a free Total Conversion mod that you could download anywhere else for free, but if you wanted to get it installed through Steam, you paid them for the privilege.

That’s exactly what Steam Greenlight was before they stopped all curation of games.

I think a middle ground may be having that requirement for background mic usage, or usage without a specific user prompt that turns on a mic.

Lots of apps have legitimate use for the mic. Apps having legitimate use for the mic while you’re not actively using the app on screen are more limited and need stricter permissions.

I’d also like to have a hardware mic mute switch that physically disconnects the mic, so I can just keep it off unless I want it like I do with the mic and Webcam on my computer.

Epic charges 12%, but they’re somehow the villain.

That’s part of the problem. If they charged the same to developers as Epic, I wouldn’t be so critical.

For games primarily sold through Steam, Steam is often the most expensive part of the game. Is it okay that Steam’s take is higher than that of all the actual developers combined?

Have you ever played a game that was actually worth playing and thought that the fucking storefront and game launcher were worth 30% of the game?

Have you played a bunch of half-baked PC ports that could’ve used a bit more money on finishing the game?

Developers decide to launch as-is partpy because they know Steam will be taking a massive cut and there will be no ROI for fixing the game.

I have an old DV7 dating back to the Bush administration that I should load Linux on.

It did really well from Vista through 7. I haven’t used it in years, but it would probably do fine with Linux.

My Samsung phone comes with an alternative android app store pre-installed.

Hating on Apple for their 30% cut is popular.

Hating on Google for their 30% cut is popular.

Hating on Microfot, Sony, and Nintendo for their cuts is popular.

But somehow hating on Steam for their 30% cut is going too far.

I use lots of FOSS software. I work in a municipal government job where I have to fill a lot of roles that aren’t funded as separate positions, so I use GIMP, Inkscape, and QGIS daily because the professional software isn’t budgeted. I also use OBS frequently, among others.

But GIMP is by far the worst FOSS alternative I’ve come across when compared against its paid competition. I hate Adobe the company, but Photoshop really is the gold standard.

I use both heavily. Oddly enough I use GIMP at work and Photoshop for my personal use and side gig.

If it’s more difficult to set up, then it may not be better for everyone.

I don’t know about that. The Trump team has been very sucessful this time around.

It’s just that what they consider a sucess is really, really bad for the world.