They also removed hardware encoding. They've had the same shitty h264 1080p encoder forever, but it was better than nothing.
Dude, steam ships with a bunch of libraries enabling cross distro support. It ain't that complicated https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/blob/main/docs/container-runtime.md
I've personally used webp for when I need lossy compression with alpha channel. What good alternatives are there? Png is not lossy and jpeg does not support alpha. Is JXL better than WebP? AVIF? JPEG2000?
Winter is coming. Time to buy a space heater
Let's boycott it until October 1st, that'll show them! /s
They have more direct control over their software ecosystem though
If their licencing agreement permits retroactive changes like this, that is reason enough to gtfo
I was curious and looked up the origins of 'ham'. Apparently it originates from "ham-fisted" describing second-rate morse-code skills of telegraphists before radio was a thing
Nonfungible cheese
Ah, the classic "make a minority responsible for our problems" technique.
Splitting up completely functional families. Barbarians. Could this be appealed in the EU courts? Is political asylum in another country possible?
I believe I read somewhere that they have abandoned the desktop app on Linux. Yep:
!In September 2022, Microsoft announced that they'd be retiring their Linux Teams client in December 2022 in favour of a new “Progressive Web Application” (PWA) version of Teams.!<