I buy games on Steam and then do all this stuff to make them work better on Linux. But I also buy games on GOG. And I have games on Epic and EA too, and Lutris does all those too.

I initially got ProtonUp-Qt specifically for use with Steam, because it is the best (easiest) way to install steamtinkerlaunch.

I approve of this campaign, which I'm just now hearing about. I have complained about their intentions regarding side loading here previously. I am frankly boggling about it, as it is really the most meaningful difference between the platforms.

Steam is definitely not literally a monopoly. Most people don't seem to know either of the most important things about monopolies, which is 1) what one is and 2) that it's not necessarily relevant whether they are, because antitrust doesn't require a monopoly. It only means you're abusing a somehow dominant position in a market.

With that said, I've been using Steam for a lot of years. I've had many technical problems with it, but I'm not aware of any way in which they are abusing their position. I haven't exactly been looking for this information either, though, and I do see that the article mentions a lawsuit I seem to remember something about.

I think 30% is a lot, but I don't think Steam is really doing anything to prevent anyone from releasing anything else anywhere. They also allow a whole lot of content that is frankly surprising for a mainstream game site, they are ultra-liberal about permitting whatever and I think that's pretty amazing. I do worry about the whole thing packing up one day, but that's a whole other discussion. Are there really any complaints about Valve that have legs?

Have you seen the 15 million credits episode of Black Mirror where you have to watch ads you don't pay to skip?

Who asked for intrusive beeps on cars? Are Karens the majority now?

Have cars devolved in terms of no CD player (so you pay for Sirius XM)? Rather than listening to customers, do car companies simply shove things down consumers' throat? So why should AI be any different? Will you end up conforming because capitalism took away choice?

I hate to be a broken record about this lately, but Lutris is a great interface to your GOG library. So far it's successfully installed and run everything I've tried. I'm gonna have to try this Heroic thing that seems to be more popular than it is now, but last time I looked everyone was telling me to use Lutris — when at the time I was happy with PlayOnLinux, which was then being maintained. On Linux you can very reasonably use the web for GOG (and it's easy enough to get Steam reviews there) and then install the games with Lutris.

While I'm advocating for software you want for playing Windows games, you will also want ProtonUp-Qt if you don't have it already.

Remember when cars had CD players?

Does an inflation-indexed printed strong basic income give the poor a way to get out of poverty once and for all (if they want)?

As for your better way: why not legalize suicide as a cost effective way to let nonviolently non-cooperative people like myself out of your nightmarish control fresk society?

Map: where are places to legally dispersed car camp between the Ozark and Gila Nat'l Forests? Are there any?

Why not use indexation to negate any real pur chasing power effects of nominal inflation?

What if you can use inflation-indexing to maintain real purchasing power no matter how silly inflation gets? What if Paul Volcker was wrong about COLAs?

What if the world's number one currency prints the dollars of which an artificial, imposed shortage caused Weimar's hyperinflation? Is the psychological, arbitrary, fickle nature of inflation revealed by how hyperinflation in Germany ended in a week upon news of the Dawes plan to supply more US Dollars? Did the Marshall Plan after WWII basically print money to give to Germany to prevent another Hitler?

What if prices are so noisy that you can defeat inflation by printing faster than prices rise? And isn't that what the rich have been doing forever? So why not bring money-printing and inflation-indexing to political consciousness as powerful tools we can use to pay a strong basic income and thus end poverty?

"Atlantic hurricane season (June 1 to November 30) affects shipping routes by causing delays, rerouting, and increased costs due to port closures, road and rail damage, and dangerous storm conditions. [...]

Most affected areas
U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: States like Florida, Louisiana, Texas, North and South Carolina, and Georgia are particularly vulnerable."

So, does physics predict less well than AI?

Well, also, if you're shooting 120 medium format film or even 4x5 or larger films...the depth of field and looks just aren't something you can readily get from digital sensors.

I guess if they actually started making medium format sized sensors (ie the size of MF film) or larger then it might work...but those would be insanely expensive.