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Physical retailers have been taking 30% before steam was even a thing. And no, the physical storage does not mean they should be paid more, because steam provides hosting capabilities that also cost money. Console stores from limited research seem to also take 30%.

Epic takes less because they operate the store at a loss in a desperate attempt to gain market share. If ms takes less, it's for the same reason.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, I don't have a car, my apartment is 40m^2 because that's all I need, I pay <750€/month including utilities. Around 150€/month go to a private retirement fund with an insurance company. After other regular expenses, if I don't make any purchases, I can save 1000€ a month. Realistically I do make purchases, so it's more like 500 - 700€. I generally split that between my savings account and etfs (as retirement fund), and try to not let my savings account go below a certain point.

I make ~2800€/month net salary. Depending on where you live, it's entirely possible your base expenses are much higher, not having a car might not be a real option, rent might be insane etc. But as someone else said, lifestyle creep. You get used to luxuries and suddenly all your money is gone for "things you need". If I want something new that will lead to regular expenses, I try to examine if there's anything else I could really just do without that I can stop paying for. Sometimes I also just look at subscriptions etc. to see if I forgot about anything.

Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that's how retailers work, it's not an unusual cut for an online store.

I fail to see how steam is anti-consumer, or how it ever actively tried to monopolize anything.

Selling broken, unfinishedband shovelware games was just them giving in to the demand to let everything on the store, after people (rightfully imo) hated greenlight.

Fuck the gambling though

I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it's an ongoing effort.

Arch is hard if you don't like reading documentation and doing basic troubleshooting. Which is perfectly valid.

If you don't mind that or even enjoy learning things that way, arch is the nicest experience possible.

If my understanding of the legislative EU process is somewhat correct, this effectively leaves it up to the countries to decide (as EU laws just mean that countries have to pass a law enacting it).

It's not rare to phrase laws this way in germany at least. It's not necessarily bad, as it allows court interpretation to change alongside societal values. In this case it would likely lead to only some countries actually passing mass surveillance laws (it's pretty unambiguously unconstitutional in a bunch, which makes it clear that mass surveillance is not "reasonable". Not that that always stops legislators, but it would at least die before the highest court eventually).

So we still need to fight it, because it's the first line of defense. Really what we need to push for would likely be explicitly disallowing blanket scanning of communication on the EU level, or proposals like this will happen again and again.

Powershell is nice for scripting things close to the (windows) OS. But (granted I'm not exactly some PS wizard, I've just used it a few times for minor things at work) I agree it often feels unnecessarily verbose and cumbersome. For example the fact that you need to define a whole function to alias even just a single command with parameters. And just overall I find it very hard to read (though maybe that's on the guy that did the powershell stuff before me, I don't have great sample size here).

But I'll take what I can get.

Even if we set our global net emissions to 0 right now it's not gonna get colder again in our lives or the lives of the next 100 generations. The carbon was in the ground, we burnt it, now it's in the atmosphere as co2. To get it back down, we need negative net emissions aka co2 recapture.

And needless to say, getting our global net emissions anywhere close to 0 isn't even really in reach for the next 50 years, so if we can do recapture alongside reducing emissions that would probably be great. Particularly in the wealthy western nations that might reach at least nominal net 0 at some point in this century.

Looking at the response to the gaza invasion, it seems rather than learning to recognize fascism, people learned only to recognize the specific ww2 era german version of it and use that as criteria to recognize fascism as a whole.

You agree hitler was a piece of shit, so you can't be a fascist. You think israel should exist, so you can't be a fascist. You think israel's actions are horrific, you must be a nazi. Etc.

Don't (most) transmen inject/otherwise take testosterone? That would be doping if a cis man did it. So I do think there's an argument there (not really any better than the argument against transwomen in women's sports, in both cases imo hormone levels just need to be monitored and you can have pretty much equal competition).

I also think at the top level it's not entirely invalid to say you don't want people with heavily modified bodies competing. Anything that isn't either the global top level or professional I find it completely ridiculous though, the level is just so wildly variant that any tiny advantage potentially gained from that is negligible anyway.

But also everything I know about the science behind it tells me trans athletes are completely fine (in trans womens case after some minimum time or HRT) because as it turns out hormones kinda determine everything about your body.

Etymology is the why, really. For example the german word for floor (in this context), Stockwerk, comes from "putting something on top". So it would make no sense at all to call the ground floor the 1. Stockwerk. It is usually labelled E for Erdgeschoss (=ground floor) though and not 0.

No, because the game does not support linux, so I never paid for it to work on linux. The fact that most games do anyway, usually out of the box and without any issues, is largely thanks to valve.