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"all (my) phones." What other phones could I be talking about? I don't have control over what happens to anyone else.

Noone was speaking for you in the first place - my comment started with "I".

I would maybe appreciate things like this, if manufactures made phones with solid grip and not by visuals or metrics like thickness measured at thinnest point. But as they are all of them go into bumper cases that hide whatever they have on the back.

I recently played several games of early to mid 2000 and had no problems. Maybe for Win98-era and older games I'd had to use Wine, but not for anything semi-modern like this.

Not to discard your happiness at things working out for you, but that's a game from 2015 and it's 2026 now. And is also in top 50 of best sellers of all time, so I would expect it to work.

> What happened was Wine/Proton and FEX, with a lot of monetary input from Valve.

So it took decades to understand that things aren't working and then investment from multi-billion company to finally start getting anywhere.

Meanwhile on Windows you can play today, could play 10 years ago, could 20 years ago. That should answer how it's still in business. It just works.

Emulation is not a bad thing - it gives users options. My point is that Microsoft were the only ones who managed to make a stable gaming platform.

Also "a lot of games benchmark better" - some games. And then some games don't work at all. And some games work with minor or significant issues. Which is not a slight against Wine and Proton as it's not an easy task.

It is a fact that it can't. Because company is not something tangible. It can't feel or think.

As for companies being shit, that's just capitalism, but plenty of people believe that's the only way.

Wallets usually belong to real people with lives. We can empathize with them. Companies are not people. And they also don't and can't empathize with you.

Nexus was sold to those new owners a bit over a year ago.

Nothing changed for the worse since that time. So don't expect any immediate changes.

> I live in a country with good consumer protection laws. I wish the rest of the world would catch up.

What country allows people to return products made years ago simply because they no longer want them? I might have an idea there. My EU country allows only 14 days to return things for no reason.

And also yes, it matters what product promises. Otherwise I can buy the game when some cheat works and when cheat stops working (due to anticheat improvement) demand refund, because it worked one way before, and now it doesn't. Broken product, cheating must be protected by laws.

Ok, I admit I was wrong.

Still user's problem if they manage or not manage to run the game through whatever translation and emulation layers they have instead of using official system requirements.

> why mention that the game is playable on Steam Deck?

Because it became playable? And now it's not. System requirements are still the same. You can see them on game purchase page.

And it's still not an active support decision. They allowed it - but it's your business. Whenever people gets problems or successes running through Proton, this is never a publisher's issue.

> made a change specifically to run on the steam deck

No, they didn't, you don't need to lie. From your url:

> EASY ANTI-CHEAT

> Updated Easy Anti-Cheat client module and library.

> Developer's Comment:* This update of Easy Anti-Cheat makes the game playable on Steam Deck.*

That is not "we made a change to specifically run on deck." Steam deck support might be accidental side effect of them getting newer anti-cheat tech.

Games use keydown because it is more responsive and control responsiveness is vital to dynamic gameplay feeling good. There are some exceptions - if action can be charged, then it is on keydown. And then on gamepad sometimes actions are on release when developer has too many actions and not enough buttons, so it can be keyup vs hold.

> I take it that you wouldn't be OK with somebody building a uranium enrichment facility in their backyard for their hobby reactor.

Your analogy fails in that yes, you are not allowed to make hobby reactor. But that's because you are not allowed to have any kind of reactor at all.

Banning 3d-printed guns while not banning real guns (which are order of magnitude more effective) makes no sense.

> People not in Japan/Singapore/Korea/China should experience what a proper transit card done looks like.

In Prague city transit does not have limiting gates. If you bought unlimited ticket, you just walk in bus/tram/metro and that is it. No touching, scanning, showing, nothing. Maybe once a month (or even rarer) you might encounter a patrolling controller who would ask you to show your ticket, but that's it.

To me the idea of working on (non-docked) laptop always seemed like an idea that you would do only if there is no other possible way.

Screen is small and is only one. Ergonomics is entirely messed up. Either your screen is too low, or your keyboard is too high. Keyboards are non-ergonomic and have to be made with compromises due to height limits. Touchpad instead of mouse/trackball is compromise for many - and also stuck at one position.

And yet they have somehow spread despite number of people going on business trips not really increasing.

I'm not sure who that line is supposed to impress. Gamers focusing on graphically demanding AAA games would laugh at this. People who don't game much probably won't know whether this is good or not.

> has no major AI player at all

So? Will major AI players introduce universal healthcare in US? Or is it coming along with AGI which is why it should be the most important to every citizen? Or maybe EU citizens should all band together and stop being lazy and go to having 0 mandatory vacation days?

Reminds of me very old USSR joke which was basically "we have rockets in space, and don't have sausages in stores".

> Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday!"

Majority of Windows users are not programming enthusiasts and just don't care.

OS works. Programs continue to work. Good. Keep it that way.

Your personal hardware probably isn't running useful tasks 24/7. If you spend 60% of your 8h work day on full on agentic work, then your hardware is paying off for itself only 20% of available time.

If in person exams are seemingly impossible in US due to scale, we have to conclude that before internet US had no education?

Sometimes it's a matter of not having taste for it. If you give me multiple bottles of alcohol drinks, I might be able to distinguish them, but I have no clue at all which ones are supposed to be good. To me it's all just alcohol. Same with coffee - but not the same for steak.

Not everything you are ever told is true. Being sceptical when presented with no evidence is what critical thinking is about. And "this is what happened to us" is a story. It doesn't become evidence for itself.

You can read online how often correctable errors happen to people with ECC and reporting.

Single digit - sometimes none - errors per year in systems with consumer amount of RAM.

> comes from huge amounts of innovation

Thousands of years of human innovation taken without any permission.

Everyone should steal everything not nailed from other AI companies. Then steal everything nailed and take the nails too. At least this way a tiniest bit might return back to society.

> You notice when things like your compressed files start giving CRC/checksum errors or your downloads don't match SHA-512.

And 9 times out of 10 (probably much more) it will be faulty storage, not RAM.

I'd say you are way overestimating impact of no-ECC.

If browser is the only software you use, good for you.