I feel like I’m living in the prequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

You will take it and you will like it.

Quick, someone tell Nintendo!

That is basically the biggest fuck up you could make as a government contracted technology provider. They even let it happen and hid it deliberately.

Big paydays incoming for certain senators.

Did you mean to say “any game that runs on the Steam Deck runs on Steam Linux?”

If so, the answer is yes. It’s honestly surprising these days to run across a steam title that doesn’t run in linux (though always look into the anti-cheat situation for online games).

Whatevs, sheeple will continue to bleet about how bad things are but not take any steps to enact change.

Cool, now do remotely.

All true, and all a problem for which linux has been a solution (in the computing world) for decades now.

Never the less, these dim-witted humans can aspire to greatness. See Forrest Gump and Donald Trump.

I’m finding SearXNG to be very good. It operates like dogpile used to but is actually functional and it pretty much entirely squelches product placement results. I actually have to manually go to google if I want to get product listings for something.

Aha. Well, so far I’m finding that it gives better results than I’ve been getting from google in years. I mostly search programming or linux related questions. It’s another metasearch engine which goes through multiple search engines and presents you with the results it thinks are relevant. It will show you which search engine(s) it pulled each result from as well. Seems to almost completely get rid of blogspam and advertisements and just return real information.

Edit: Also, it brings back the cached feature

Much Later Edit: It is, in fact, very good at hiding advertising/shopping sites. I had to switch to google for a search the other day when I was looking to order something online because searxng had filtered out all of the etail sites in its results.

Because google is a turd sandwich? When alternatives are out there, people need to use them. Everybody was using yahoo or infoseek, or in case of somewhat intelligent people, altavista back in 1999. Every now and then you’d hear someone say something about google, and lo and behold, it was way better than those search engines. Now google sucks. A replacement will eventually arise.

Give SearxNG a try. There are browser plugins available for it. I was using Librey but I’m finding SearxNG to be better.

reddit is a very good search resource though because it has 15 years of real people giving real information. I imagine reddit from here on out will be going hard on the enshitification train so it’s value as a search resource will rapidly decline.

Or they just tried harder to make it seem like a coincidence.

Yeah it’s impressive. When this infrastructure is built-out to where I’m at 30 years from now, if I’m still alive, I might get an EV.

Probably still can have a computer though, it’s just not fully yours on 11.

That’s a good point. If you leave 11 on your computer, then you don’t own it anyway.

Microsoft is just allowing you use of the hardware to run their data mining software on.

Oh shit you’re right, and Vista was a giant turd sandwich.

In the US companies will knowingly do shitty things and break established rules and laws if they feel the profit will outweigh the resulting fines. It happens all the time.

Sometimes they will just have people killed too and face zero repercussions.

Hmm well . . .

Windows 95 - revolutionary UI changes for its time

Windows 98 - hot garbage update

Windows 98SE - fixed hot garbage and was ok

Windows ME - hot garbage

Windows XP - Windows 95 for grown ups

Windows 7 - This is where it breaks down, since from what I hear 7 was actually pretty good (been a linux user since the ME days) - but if you’re counting Windows XP was Windows 5 so maybe they worked on 6 and just didn’t release it to break the curse

Windows 8 - Everybody should have just moved to linux at this point

Windows 10 - Who knows. You should have been using linux

Windows 11 - If you’re not using linux now you shouldn’t have a computer