Knowing how important the site is to the fandom, I'd be surprised if anyone lets it go under.

That being said, as a precaution, a PixelFed instance attached to pawb.fun and pawb.social might be nice to have.

The one way a company can avoid that is to not go publicly traded in the first place. Problem is there's a huge a mount of incentive to go publicly traded - specifically, it's a huge boost to cash-on-hand, which can be crucial for expanding a business - so most corporations will basically do so without batting an eyelash at it. It's a lot slower to build a company solely from net profits and private investors. But the cost of faster growth is a loss of control of the company.

Doesn't hurt that Microsoft's official answer to "what if my computer doesn't meet the required specs to run Windows 11 or later" is literally "switch to Linux".

It's always big data, isn't it?

To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data "for development purposes".

The point was that not every game was confirmed to work. For a PC game to work on the Steamdeck, it needs to meet two criteria:

1. Work on Linux, either natively or through Proton.

2. Have controller support and/or be playable with a touchscreen.

Not every PC game meets this criteria. Some games still don't play well in a cross-OS runtime environment like Proton or WINE. Others are designed specifically for mouse and keyboard, or keyboard alone.

One game I can definitely say is not Steamdeck compatible is SimCity 4. The UI doesn't really work with touch screens well, the game has no native controller support, and it originally released with SecuROM so a physical copy won't even work on modern Windows, let alone Linux.

This comes off as one of those "we asked if we could, but never asked if we should" kinds of things...

Small brain: Wearing a fursuit for trick-or-treating

Large brain: Wearing a costume with your fursuit for trick-or-treating

Galaxy brain: Wearing a costume based around your fursuit for trick-or-treating. (For example, wearing a Starfleet uniform with a feline partial suit for a Caitian Starfleet officer).

When a dragon decides to hoard knowledge rather than wealth.

"Aliens aren't furry"

Are you seriously going to say that when Chewbacca is one of the most well known sci-fi aliens and is a literally walking carpet of floof? And in a similar Star Warsy vein, what about all the Bothans that died to get the Death Star plans before Disney decided to retcon that and say that there was a defector on the engineering team instead?

Anyway, what about servals? As in the adorable spotty leggy jumpy cats that have kinda gone viral in the cat memes scene recently?

I mean, it will, because unfortunately there's still a ton of people who have that whole "So? Everyone does it, and they already have my info anyway. And there's nothing we can do about that so why bother." mindset.

Still, this is going to cause a massive privacy lawsuit.

Border Collie

It's a regular collie