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Yeah, sorry I meant more in the way that a user in a VM is a really different threat surface to a full root user.

For sure both should apply security patches, and avoid malware, I’m just wondering even within that model what the differences are.

I think a marketing point was to replace your desktop monitors with virtual monitors, but I haven’t yet seen a setup better than just a monitor

Wait so its incorrect to say “its as hot as hell in here”?

I’m explicitly implying it is truly hot as hell, while not even addressing the possibility its cold as shit as well. Hell I’m not even using it to describe the fallacy that it is, in fact, not hot as hell, as hell may not even exist physically - much less have an average atomic kinetic energy.

Or maybe were both just being pedantic dicks cause were incorrect in our original claim?

Damn I gotta get back to English class

Why not? Hyperboles are a literary tool, and meant to be used.

Unfortunately its as off topic as your random hate for companies and literary structure, so I’m a bit hesitant to continue this debate.

That being said I’d assume it was in their test suite considering their haste.

Doing things the wrong way will always be cheaper, Elon had the same argument as you when he used a padlock to secure a datacenter worth of confidential twitter data. It makes money immediately, but anyone with a 2and grade education realises time exists beyond the next quarterly report.

Properly auditing and testing software takes time, looks like shit quarterly, and develops a long term following leading to stable profits. I see no reason for Steam to have changed from this path.

Thats valid, and due to the speed of the update I wouldn’t be surprised if it was already in their testing suite.

So what’s the marketing team say when 1500 indexes join a botnet cause they didn’t properly audit the CDrom code?

Really worth the potential 3 extra sales, by ruining your entire reputation as youre trying to build it.

Thats a really good point, especially with the more obscure modules.

It must be interesting for steam to develop a hackable device in a market that usually locks their hardware down so aggressively.

Mon Dieu!

L’américaine ne pas bien!

(Oh god please don’t fry me for my French, this was attempted without AI translation and a very long gone French education)

Still needs to be read from disk/flash, for the kernel to know it exists. And more relevantly every module has a number of dependencies that will all contribute to size/boot times in their own way.

Maybe even milliseconds is giving it too much, but bloat is really important especially near the release of new hardware.

I imagine the last thing anyone was worried about in crunch time was if they enabled enough random hardware in their config file.

Still clearly is now an intended feature, that yeah I’d even consider it being overlooked as a bug.

Assuming every single thing they do is a calculated, profit driven decision is like blaming all your bad luck on the devil, without proof youre just swatting imaginary faries.

I’d be insanely surprised if like 1 TV commercial would market leagues above “some company most old people don’t recognise changed something about a thing most people don’t know how works. The company claims its a positive”.

Good publicity from… having a bug?

The kernel has a ton of optional modules that they’d be stupid to include them all. They certainly don’t need support for an obscure Quebec companies GPUs that stopped producing in the 90s.

Its pretty standard operating to cut out any cruft you can, saves on storage, boot times, etc. This one was probably saving milliseconds and kilobytes, so presumably not much thought was given to disabling it, nor needed to reenable it.

Right I’m an idiot, it should have stuck out to me that I was dividing by time twice.

200Wh average per month, or 0.27Wh.

Is my math wrong or is that absolute garbage? A desktop solar panel could compete

Edit: yeah my math is garbage, solar is better (under certain conditions), but not 50,000x better

I’m pretty sure its an acid/base conjugate pair buffer, but I could be wrong

Neutralise the corrosion with a conjugate pair acids/base buffer.

Neutralise was a confusing term to pick, but they’re not wrong.

Well that and abusing addicts through microtransactions. Free to play was just to reach more addicts.

Damn, those neighbourhoods might even be safe for kids to play if we let then continue like this

Thats why I call it lazy not malicious, any other company and it’d be a focus stealing dark pattern.

I usually map the home button in emulators, or if I need an extra key.

Itd make sense for steamos to have that default, but the setting has been enforced by default for like a decade

Letting arbitrarily executing code run persistently is a security/privacy risk, for those who care.

I trust steam more, but I hate that discord does this stuff.

Also its probably bug territory, but steam always fucking opens big picture if you press the home button any time its running with a controller, even in the background.

Like I get they probably focused on steam deck UX for their incredibly helpful push to linux, but the dev in me can’t help but be pissed off they implemented it so lazily.