Your personal data is in danger, but with root access the virus can take control of your computer and do worse stuff, like spread more easily, participate in ddos attacks etc.

Please be more concrete: On my single person PC, which is either turned off or I'm logged in, what can it do with root access that it cannot do without? Changing some irrelevant files, sure, but what more?

One single thing comes to my mind: Reading out my WiFi password. Anything else?

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They don't run as root

Wouldn't make a big difference in my single user PC. Running as me already has access to nearly all private data.

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That Win95 interface is killing me. Otherwise, looks really interesting!

No matter how good the rest might be, I cannot stand such a sight anymore.

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@Liam: Please give us back the quote button. Quoting text that's already there won't hurt a law.

Edit: Right now, I'm in a full charge/ full drain (through bios) to see if I can get it to "reset" the battery health.

So Steam Deck's BIOS has some battery maintenance options?

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When using Controlify, do I have a button to build a recipe n times? Like, every time it is pressed, the recipe is used one more time? I think bedrock does have this?

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Am I seeing this right, exclusive quests for backers locked behind the $1000 tier?

I think you read that wrong:

The "Backer-Exclusive side-quest" is a collaborative effort to create an in-game quest all players will have access to.

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From a software developers perspective, AI actually is a mere tool. It does help from time to time, it does lead astray from time to time. Of course, this might change, but I don't see my job endangered by what they have to offer at the moment. Additionally, they will have to charge sooner or later, when all the trillions or whatever of monies pumped into it have been spent.

Let's see.

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Portal 2 got the same fix, it seems.

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"In the case of Silksong, a teamcherry dev did post on social media just a few weeks ago saying exactly that. I don't have twitter to bother bring the post up here unfortuantely."

The problem of the thousand possible communication channels. I don't want to follow them everywhere, they may find it hard to feed all of them. I do find the most important shop important enough to feed from time to time though.

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I don't think it's realistic to force developers to give any updates on unreleased games, feels a bit unreasonable just because people want it.

Once a year?!? Even if they only say "Yes, we're still working on it in 2025.", it's at least something. If that's too much to do for your future release and your future customers, thank you, but no thanks.

I've got several games on my list that haven't seen any news in years, and I wonder if the developers are still working on it. Or if they are even developers anymore. Or if they're actually alive. Who knows.

And we shouldn't forget that nobody's forced to put their game on Steam loads of years before the release. I'm not sure this is useful in making some PR waves after all this time either.

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