Honestly I’m 100% on Team Steam as far as this screenshot, for the record. I just thought the story was interesting. Her shirt has a big hole for her boobs to come 80% of the way out through, and the game has sex bots in it, among other issues. I feel like this is a likely-successful attempt to garner more publicity for the game.

I’m not super familiar with it, but just knowing the little bit that I know about it, this is my guess:

• The person who paid for the order flow sees a limit order for max price $45 or whatever.
• The user’s data is delayed by 15 minutes, so they see the current price as $46.
• The person who paid for order flow looks at the current price (which the user can’t see, since their data is 15 minutes delayed).
• If the current price is $43, they fill the order at $44 and the user feels like they came out ahead and is motivated to keep doing this
• If the current price is $45, they fill the order at $45, whatever
• If the current price is $47, they don’t fill the order

… and so on. I would bet it’s decently more complicated than that, but bottom line, there’s a reason these guys are paying all this money for order flows. It’s not because they’re not making money on them, and usually the procedure is to extract the money from the most-poorly-informed person involved (which in this case is the end user by a big margin).

All orders cost money. If they’re not charging you $5 per trade or whatever, then they’re taking a lot more than that by selling your “order flow” to someone who’s shaving little bits off it by creatively timing when the trades actually are going through and at what exact price.

Vanguard and Fidelity are both good. You can just use the web site, probably you can even just call them up and make requests over the phone. Vanguard is a little bit more for normal person investing (mostly index funds and no weird shit), Fidelity offers crypto and all the nonsense too if you want that, but they’re both pretty respectable.

IDK man. If your hardware doesn’t work on the stock kernels + firmware + etc, I don’t feel like it’s the distro makers’ problem to make some extra changes to try to make it work.

If they want to to make a smoother experience for their users (which is a common Ubuntu thing), then great. But they’re not “supposed” to.

Think of all the stuff they are breathing…