Also, the developer of the game must have the source code, so they can simply port it to different platforms. That's not a big task these days.

Source code seems to have gone more often than you'd think.

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Remember that a basic job of the OS is to isolate processes. So an infected non-root app may be able to access your home, but it can't access other processes (like your browser, or the service that provides your keyring). With root privileges, that isolation is gone.

But I can replace the browser (Use The Source, Luke! ;) ) or password manager and send whatever they get from the inside. Not only what happens to be in memory, but everything stored.
I don't check on a daily basis what my Firefox start button actually starts...
You can also change the PATH variable and put the binaries there, so it would work from command line as well.

I give you that root access makes things less visible, but this attack would be good enough to spy on me at least.

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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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