"To store" is definitely the last thing I give a shit about, but it's also true that Steam is impressively bad. Even after they've recently allegedly given it a major makeover, it's still absurdly slow to launch. Forget "to store", how about just "to a window"? Even that takes longer than it should take to get to your library.

I don't let Steam start on login on my Linux system, but I do leave it running once launched, I guess so that it can semi-randomly decide that now is a good time to process some shaders. Of course it's actually just a stack of web browsers dressed up as an application, which is why everything about it is slow. I get that it's sharing content that is being put on the web so nothing else makes sense, but ugh.

A security suite can do several useful jobs on a Unix/UNIX/Unixlike system. It can look for evidence of intrusion, or it can scan files to check for viruses which might affect the Windows systems in accounting. Also, there's no call to be snobby about Unix security because even if "only" a user is infected, they can easily wipe out any of the data to which they have write access. Then you're no more or less dependent on your backups than with any other OS.

I think that's clear from the UID, it's at least good for that much!

Up through Windows 98 you could still do whatever you wanted on that platform. And ofc there was the Amiga, which was fully multiprocessing, unlike any of the other consumer OSes. It had no memory protection at all unless you swapped to a CPU with a MMU and ran a handler like GOMF. (I think a few Amigas came with MMUs, maybe the Unix machines? But the normal OS didn't use it.)

I think a lot of people do think computing was better back then, which is silly, but nostalgia isn't unusual. I was just looking through some files and noticed one of them contained a bunch of samples of Amiga disk noises to be used with emulators. That's the very, very last thing I would ever want or need. But there were aspects of it which were better in some ways, like that a person could reasonably understand the entire system, and that allowed people to make changes in ways that are hard now. (But of course, they have to be hard for security reasons.)

GLWT.

NGL, NGL.

Who's trying to intimidate someone through a computer? That would be ridiculous.

You and everyone else.

womp womp

If you're supporting Leon, you're supporting this administration, whether you're smart enough to know that or not.

No, that's not how anything works. If you're pro-Nazi, then fuck you, you're a Nazi. If you're pro-genocide, then fuck you, you're a Nazi.

My people are descended from conversos so I'm really not interested in your Jew victim card.

Oh look, you're on Nazi Twitter. More Nazi shit.

I don't allow scripts from Nazi Twitter, so I'm not playing that video. Feel free to find a clip somewhere else.

Yes, I know. That's because you're a fucking Nazi.

Fuck you, Nazi.

It's always sad to me when I see that a low UID user is a stupid maggot.

This question has been answered over and over again on this site and elsewhere, including by me. If you actually wanted to know the answer, you would already know it, so I'm not going to explain it to you. Learn to fucking internet, you piece of shit child rape enthusiast fuckwad.

Every comparison of similar things is fair. When using someone else's hardware and their latest model there's an increase in capability, but also an increase in risk.

Not just that, but every EULA basically can be boiled down to "fuck you" and Mickeysoft sure as shit ain't taking responsibility for your data, though they may be taking your data... As the EULA allows!

It's cheap and easy to do a shitty bullshit audit. What could possibly go wrong?

There are such devices built around open standards. They cost more but are the only rational choice in the market.

I see no evidence that BeauHD isn't an AI in the first place. If he is, he's a particularly stupid bot...

I use my gmail address to log into many apps, so they know my phone number. The problem is that some stranger with a similar name keeps using my gmail address to create accounts. So when I creating an account for a DoorDash pickup today, the app decided I was Elizabeth H, and my food was labeled Elizabeth H, and the guy at the counter argued that the old cis male in front of him didn't really look like an Elizabeth... I had the same problem with my Best Buy account, I can't use my gmail address to login to that because Elizabeth already has her account linked to my email address. Unfortunately, she hasn't left a credit card active for that account. One time someone no Etsy used my email address and was foolish enough to leave her credit card attached. So she received a surprise: poop soap delivered to her door! The data collectors can figure out a lot about you by aggregating data from multiple sources, so they do know your phone number, and can link it indirectly to you email.

Enforces the law? You mean like the law Congress passed that said he had to release the Epstein files that he's breaking because he doesn't want everyone to have the video proof that he raped children?

I don't understand why anyone would support child rape as hard as you are right now unless they were a child rapist themselves.

Someone should check your hard disk.

Yes, if you have no brain, it might seem like it makes sense to pay $200/mo for the privilege of sending all of your business data to a third party.