Alovoa sounds nice, but I didn’t try it out myself.

Ability to export data to a relevant, open standard. If I can jump ship at the drop of a hat, then I’ll consider it. I won’t buy if I don’t have that power.

Is this a ploy to get me to leave my Bluetooth on at all times? Hell fucking no. No stalker is that dangerous.

YMMV

And just like that my opinion of the steam forums skyrocketed.

The amount of people thinking they are getting ripped off by steam now is astounding.

They are the reason this step is incredibly necessary.

They are welcome to do both. Immediately stop selling and after a X number of days allow refunds at the publishers expense.

To be fair, that was likely some first level support reacting to you trying something that is not supposed to work, as in not supported (playing on Linux).

How the strategy pans out after those talks we will see.

It is. I really like the direction of the steam deck. A PC that’s very open, but still is able to hide most complexity from users that don’t care for that.

They already are. Just shut off from unauthorized (read:your) grubby hands.

I disagree. There is nothing stopping that as it is. What this really does is remove one more level of control from the end user on their device.

That is exactly what I meant with that. Less control for you means more control for the banks/app creators.

I myself also want to let go of the likes of Google. It’s a pretty bumpy ride, but better than a future where the Tech Bros are in control.

Let’s hope we don’t have to.

Very good. I don’t like using apps for every little shitty website like discord or WebEx either.

Just know that this is a step forward in the direction of making it technically possible to force people to usw the app. Ask yourself if you trust them to not try and profit from this.

You do you

I don’t.

I’ve seen people pay with something like that, but mostly it’s like an electronic checkbook. But yeah, browser is sufficient.

Oh! With “get around it” I meant cash, not outdated software.

I don’t know what you mean by that. Do you mean you rather use google pay?

So no banking apps for you? I agree that this is shit, but pretending we are not hit by this is not helping.

Also, I don’t really use banking apps anyway because they already pull similar shit and I can get around it. For now.

Mhh, DNSv6 (name doesn’t make sense but everyone still knows exactly what is said. Like “pointing toe”.)

Why would they? They know how it’s made!

That’s not an OS, that’s three spywares in a trenchcoat!