You're right, except of course that is if you live in America where the Federal Arbitration Act has leaglised precisely this kind of contractual escape clause and also preempted any state laws that attempts to bypass it. Once again showing that America is land of the free [to get fucked over]

Odds in a small claims court are much better... for Amazon. For starters people buying low cost rubbish that burns their house down on Amazon aren't the same kinds of people that go starting lawsuits in a country which lacks a loser-pays legal system.

This isn't about Amazon. Amazon is a symptom of a wider problem. The underlying question is, why on earth are you able to sign your "rights" away? What kind of legal system lets you do that?

And even they had the sense to attempt to encrypt their shitty feature locally. Like seriously WTF is OpenAI thinking?

Putting an article with the headline "Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust'" immediately above an article about OpenAI's tool which records sensitive information and then stores it for 48 hours unencrypted and sends some unknown data to their servers in the process is a complete master move.

Dear Anthropic, I don't trust you as far as I can throw you, and since companies are constructs not a physical thing I can't throw you at all, even in the slightest, even if I was god damn Thor.

Why would developers care about a completely underperforming store front with a small user base? I don't thing EGS Linux support will influence a single developer. Not one. There's a bigger store with wide spread Linux compatibility.

Do not confuse the Epic responsible for the games and the store (a true piece of shit company) with the Epic responsible for Unreal Engine. It's like chalk and cheese.

I'm sure the only reason Unreal Engine has Linux as a build target is because Sweeney and the rest of the amoebas working at Epic Games don't know about it.

Well given that EGS is an electron app I'm sure they could throw 5 tokens at Claude and have it done in their coffee break. I won't hold my breath for actual Linux support for the store or for any games that Epic has wilfully removed from Linux without reason. They have promised so much and delivered so little.

We have moved far beyond "store-front". Modern gaming platforms like Steam or EGS are expected to support a wide variety of in game things including matchmaking (implies external friends list, which implies a social media structure like chat, ideally as an overlay so it can be accessed from within the game) along side a world of other management tasks, such as mod management, update management, achievement management, and that's before you look at things like providing a universal input API to expand hardware support like SteamInput.

Epic did launch "just a store front" and were widely criticised for it.

But they have one thing going for them, their store front is just a web front end. That's actually the biggest criticism. Their damn Electron powered shitshow is an insane resource hog sitting in the background of a gaming session.

No we need to move away from god damn web front ends. Unless you're displaying basic images and providing just a download link, native code a damn app.

Another great example of denying reality by a MAGATARD.

I mean at this point everywhere on the internet that isn't Truth Social is a place to rant about Trump. He's the most deeply unpopular president in US history, not just locally, but also among his own base, and internationally.

I'd be worried about any platform that isn't filled with rants about him. *stares at the fuel price while in being 7800km away from the moron I can't vote for who caused it to skyrocket*.

EAC supports Linux both for first party developers and via Proton. The "people will cheat" is a bullshit excuse.

Yes. Why wouldn't you be able to? You can do that today with digital downloads. E.g. Horizon Zero Dawn (launched 10 years ago) is currently available on the Playstation Store for you to download, including the expansion for 40EUR (it launched at 60EUR, and the expansion launched at 20EUR, so that's half the launch price ignoring 10 years of inflation).

The same applies to Xbox games as well.

Nintendo on the other hand infamously do not discount over time.

In what way? From what I've seen games sold on Steam command the same prices as games sold on disc, back when they were available. Steam is a bad example because we don't have an easy direct comparison.

Meanwhile in the PS store, Xbox store and Nintendo store we do have direct comparisons and the same game from the same publisher commands a premium for digital only. Only yesterday the wife had Mario Kart World in her hand at Intertoys and complained that she wished the digital version was also 70EUR because she doesn't want to have to swap cartridges in her Switch, but alas it's currently 80EUR on the Nintendo store.

For those playing at home, that's a first party Nintendo game, on a first party Nintendo online store (no store fees), which is 10EUR more expensive to draw a website and provide a download link than to physically produce a version of the game on an electronic cartridge that actually costs >$10 to manufacture in bulk and needs to be distributed. Also we were at Intertoys and the game wasn't discounted so presumably there was some profit in it for the store selling the cartridge too.

Yes... and yet... are you starting to see the stupidity here?

Actually the answer is "Yes". It objectively "could" lower game prices. It reduces cost of producing games that would be distributed across consumers.

It won't do, because of course it won't ... but it technically could.

a) The presence of code does not mean it uses any CPU cycles.
b) Kernel support for something does not mean it's compiled in or that it has made a kernel any less "lean".
c) Linux kernel performance is basically at the top of every metric except for specific networking cases where it's beaten by BSD.
d) Linux was never a microkernel. It's been "bloated" supporting virtually anything and everything from initial release.
e) Getting paid by Microsoft to post stupid shit on the internet isn't worth the mental health impact of having everyone call you a moron every day, it's really time for you to find a more honorable profession, like trafficking drugs or sex work.