I remember back in 2004/2005 how a PR company was hired by certain companies (microsoft) to act as if they were a grassroots movement of software developers that demanded patents on software, while practically all software developers were out on the streets in Brussels to protest against the ridiculous patents on software.
They got found out. This has lead to major restrictions in ways you are allowed to lobby in the EU.

But since the UK isn't part of the EU anymore, they can ignore that of course and lobbyists are free again to make those "grassroots" websites...

Do not ever think that a single steam customer is behind that site... It's paid for by multinationals.

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The UK continues to target consumers and make it bad for their own citizens... And all because of these "protect the children" fake organizations that clearly have a second agenda, and it is not about protecting the children. I wish these organizations would be sued for abusing the state of abused children for their own gain.

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The game looks nice. But I hate other players. I mean, there will probably always be at least one that I hate. Just like the Ark: SE GOL server where I spend my 1 hour free time every few days in, only to start all over again because of that one person.

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The most important game I want to run on it is a 3D desktop that can run a bunch of *readable* wezterms and maybe a few browsertabs.
I am still between xreal glasses on my steam deck and a steam frame...
The steam frame will be a desktop replacement, so if either the frame or the deck breaks, I can still use the other.
In the end I might stream desktop from my cluster. But for travel: deck+xreal or frame...
I reckon the deck+xreal is more expensive than the frame.

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The most important game I want to run on it is a 3D desktop that can run a bunch of *readable* wezterms and maybe a few browsertabs.
I am still between xreal glasses on my steam deck and a steam frame...
The steam frame will be a desktop replacement, so if either the frame or the deck breaks, I can still use the other.
In the end I might stream desktop from my cluster. But for travel: deck+xreal or frame...
I reckon the deck+xreal is more expensive than the frame.

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I don't mind remasters, just as long as it's clear that it is not going to cost $60 like everything today.

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That's very nice. But I thought the download/patch process in itself was power hungry :-). Yes, there always has to be a negative comment :-). Doesn't mean I am not thinking about getting me a hot standby steam deck. It basically replaced all my laptops and desktops for work.
I think it's several years that I've been earning money with my steam deck \0/. This can be turned into a meme somehow, but I do not have enough coffee in me to see it yet.

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It's not that they want to protect children, it's about that the UK that wants to know who the adults are. All parties in the UK are bad.
I remember a McCarthy claiming that downloading mp3 songs funds terrorism around the time that we were in Brussels protesting against software patents.
She wanted to have DPI to detect the downloading of mp3 songs.
The current "child protection" is exactly that, just they disguise it as a way to protect children.
I wonder how the UK would handle roblox? As that's a platform that can be harmful to children, unlike anything in the steam store.

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"AMD discovered several transient scheduler attacks"
Nice... Assigned CVE and all, disclosed and fixes.
This feels like AMD gained another round of trust.

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It's not just about games...
When MasterVolt pulled the plug out of the cloudservice of the Web soladin 1500, a month later my solar panels stopped producing.
It should be illegal that if you buy something, that it requires the cloud to be functional.

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