In general, no, you will not be provided services at no cost. If you want to go back to the post office, they will require you to buy stamps.

If you won’t pay cash, then you have to pay data.

Thanks for the link.

This covers my thoughts about damn near every “helpful” feature this side of auto-complete email addresses.

What is it that you’re concerned about? Assume that I have no idea what either the new or old Mozilla privacy policy is, please. I tend to assume that all such are a pack of lies and everything is spying on me.

I appreciate the info!

Interesting. I may have to start switching over, then.

My current big ones are Windsail, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, Stardew, and Traveler’s Rest.

Also Star Trek Online, but that’s not Steam.

Appreciate any testing you are able to do.

I’m not in a position to experiment, but I’m following the lead of a friend who is in such a position, and is far more technical than I am.

I’ll ask him about proton. Appreciate the recommend.

Same here. The minute I can be confident than my steam collection will run on Linux, I’m switching over.

Larry Niven is not up everyone’s taste, but I find that his Laws, such as they are, stand up reasonably well. On writing, he said this:

f you’ve nothing to say, say it any way you like. Stylistic innovations, contorted story lines or none, exotic or genderless pronouns, internal inconsistencies, the recipe for preparing your lover as a cannibal banquet: feel free. If what you have to say is important and/or difficult to follow, use the simplest language possible. If the reader doesn’t get it, then let it not be your fault.

I wish this was taught in schools.

Not us. The people in power, and their rabble.

The rabble don’t know what DEI is, only that it’s on the list of things they are told to be against.

True. I’ll take what wins we can get.

I suspect that they are just going to be instructing the companies on which speech they should be censoring, and which amplified.

I find it hard to believe the NSA would even let him in the door.

Well played. It’s likely just PR bullshit, but frankly, at this point, I’ll take it.

You know, I might be a little more ok with this, if it actually stopped school shootings.

But I doubt it will.

I would be suspicious of any big company trying to set up a manufacturing facility. Jobs, yes. We need jobs. But the company is not here to provide jobs, they are here for cheap labor. They area here because they hope the desire for good jobs will blind people to the environmental risks of the project.

And I would expect a Chinese company operating in America to be more of a risk then any other combination I’m aware of. The American people don’t trust regulations. The American government doesn’t enforce regulations. And the Chinese culture, as far as I can tell, believes that regulations exist to be broken. Three groups that have no use for anything that will protect the environment is a recipe for toxic waste releases.

I’m relented reminded of the joke about the medical students.

I’m pretty sure that the main reason Google funds Mozilla is to be able to avoid claims of monopoly on browsers. I don’t think we can have it both ways.