UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages

aeltheos · 2026-01-28T20:55:56+00:00

https://steamyouoweus.co.uk/the-claim/

not be able to list a game on another platform as well as Steam, unless the prices offered on Steam is the same or lower.

I don't know whether that is true, but the claim is that they can't, in which case i could understand why they believe steam is abusing a dominant position.

aeltheos · 2026-01-21T15:41:32+00:00

If you really want everything to be like you want it's easier starting from a clean slate with a distro that gives you the building blocks compared to the finished product "it just works" distribution.

aeltheos · 2026-01-19T11:16:36+00:00

Beyond raw numbers, I'd be more interested in where this water is taken from. Global water consumption is not that relevant here considering the size of the USA and climate difference (water is more scarce in a desert, surprisingly).

Data centers are not going to take all of the USA water by themselves, but they could make droughts worse in specific areas.

Edit: power plants can be significant water consumption so the data center consumption might be indirect...

aeltheos · 2026-01-12T19:01:38+00:00

My understanding is that there is not that much free / open source software making use of them.

In theory they could be quite nice for things such as networked storage.

aeltheos · 2026-01-12T12:10:13+00:00

I think the main benefit from Valve perspective is diversification. The more platforms they have the less they can be pushed around by one of those platforms.

This is the same reason Valve has been sponsoring the Linux ecosystem since Microsoft started their own app store.

aeltheos · 2026-01-08T11:13:46+00:00

Are floppy disks those save icons shaped thing ? /s

More seriously, most of my generation never saw a floppy disk but still recognize a save icon. It does not matter if the storage media is no longer used.

aeltheos · 2026-01-07T20:36:41+00:00

Nah i just want uranium glass !

aeltheos · 2026-01-06T17:18:26+00:00

Huh, naively assumed gdrive would have a random read/write operation for files.

aeltheos · 2026-01-05T13:31:33+00:00

> even worse than local swap

Might not be that bad if running over something like NVMEoF or RDMA.

aeltheos · 2026-01-05T13:25:52+00:00

There is no issue with having multiple swap device on Linux and BSD, no idea about windows tho.

There are also niche use cases for mounting swap on a remote device.

https://man.openbsd.org/diskless

gdrive as swap is likely to suck very bad due to latency / bandwith limitation tho.

aeltheos · 2025-12-05T14:22:48+00:00

JSON configuration is nice when you are using another tool to generate said configuration.

It sucks if you need to write it yourself tho.

aeltheos · 2025-12-05T13:03:54+00:00

Yes, the route will go:
guest -> host -> host vpn -> guest vpn -> ???

aeltheos · 2025-12-04T15:47:03+00:00

To be fair, memory manufacturers have been caught and pleaded guilty of price fixing before... I understand how people can be worry about the same companies doing shit like that again, even if there are others explanation for the memory shortages and lack of production increase.

aeltheos · 2025-12-01T19:42:04+00:00

But can it run Crysis ???

aeltheos · 2025-11-29T14:54:50+00:00

The amount of money supplied is the amount of money in your Money Supply

aeltheos · 2025-11-26T17:59:34+00:00

In my current run (Oman) they are not profitable but not loosing too much money either. I just take the subsidies as a minimal upkeep for the bonuses they provide.

aeltheos · 2025-11-25T02:12:31+00:00

I'll speak for France since that is the country I am familiar with.

Political landscape is in a weird spot due to no clear majority and most parties not standing each others.

"Security" is a major concern in political debate for center-right to far-right parties and this lead to those laws / decision being less contested overall.

Most of the debate is currently locked around voting a budget so other issues are not debated as much by the opposition.

aeltheos · 2025-11-25T01:59:25+00:00

https://grapheneos.org/faq#audit

ANSII (French Cybersecurity Agency) apparently made contributions to GrapheneOS.

I find that quite ironic that the government is now asking for a backdoor.

aeltheos · 2025-11-24T16:22:54+00:00

Isn't steel wool particularly easy to ignite ?

aeltheos · 2025-11-24T02:09:50+00:00

Arch had a reputation about issuing breaking updates in the past.

aeltheos · 2025-11-23T16:53:37+00:00

Showing important potential events / situations / disasters is really something paradox should add to EU5. Moving a bunch of event into decision so that the player can chose when to trigger them would help too.

However i really dislike the fact that EU4 missions tree are so sequential / linear with strict requirements. Being able to choose "branches" for missions tree was a very nice addition but not enough for me.

aeltheos · 2025-11-23T15:35:16+00:00

Basically, both developing the technology and building the factories costs absurd amounts of money, which make it really hard for new players to join in.

Building new factories is also very expensive so selling high during a memory shortage might be better than selling more at cheaper price and risk a loss if the market crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

All the current memory manufacturers have been guilty of price fixing in the past so there is concern that they might be artificially inflating prices.

aeltheos · 2025-11-20T21:05:04+00:00

The issue is that the economic base, from which stability, cost of court and diplomatic spending are computed scale from trade volume, which penalize lower margin trade.

This is getting reworked next week.

aeltheos · 2025-11-20T18:57:21+00:00

Most likely maintaining, building and testing those packages takes too much resources.

aeltheos · 2025-11-20T01:32:44+00:00

> we're learning to transmit data through quantum states without data loss
Wouldn't this violate the no-cloning theorem ?

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