Oh throught a third party tool, thanks, interesting.

The are absolutely ways to have a 100% anonymous and private age verification. None of the parties here are interested in implementing them though.

Are you sure? I don’t think you can.

I was buying a PC case and was surprised to find out it’s actually not trivial to find one without a transparent side panel.

I don’t want to see the inside of my PC, ideally it should be hidden away as much as possible. My ideal setup would be to have the tower in a separate room with cables going through a wall so that only peripherals are anywhere near my desk.

Steam doesn’t do that. Some games on Steam do, but it’s the games deciding to do that, not Steam.

There are many games on Steam that are DRM free and can be played offline and without Steam running or being installed at all.

Or just playing games with higher graphics settings that the Steam Deck wouldn’t be able to run.

Yes, it was really bad.

I question your assertion that it was purposefully done as a secret conspiracy to ruin a random brand. Don’t attribute to malice what can adequately explained by stupidity.

No, they weren’t trying to ruin the brand, they were trying to make a YouTube video, made a bad job with multiple compounding mistakes, and ended up hurting the brand without that being their intention.

Hah, yeah I guess he does own goal to protect others often.

That’s an egregious mistake of a logistics employee wrongly asset tagging a prototype, ending up creating a huge controversy. Linus never named the employee and took all the heat on himself even though the situation had nothing to do with him.

Making a big deal out of Honey taking creator’s money would again move all the heat on him while warning other creator’s. But I think it would go just as bad.

So the scenario is that they know Honey is losing them money, but it’s saving user’s money by finding them great deals (since that part of the controversy wasn’t known at the time).

And you are proposing they make a video complaining about it. A big YouTuber millionaire telling people “hey, I know this extension is making you money, but please consider not using it because we are profiting off of our affiliate links less when you do and our profits are more important than your savings”.

How do you think that would go? We all know how such a video would be received.

I am aware

It’s not just creators though, it’s also preventing customers from getting a good deal, because stores can pay honey their protection racket money to stop it from giving their customers discounts.

Admittedly it’s a lesser issue - you are just not getting a discount you could have gotten - but it’s the opposite of what it was claiming to do for you.

The battery didn’t caught fire in this case, it was undamaged.

Yeah, the absurd terrorism charges are probably possible to beat, so no reason to plead guilty to them. They are probably not questioning the murder charges, but that’s beside the point.

But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off

Most VR headsets don’t work at all on Linux, and for those that do, most games don’t work anyway. For those that do work, they are unstable, and SteamVR itself is unstable and prone to crashes. Even when things work for a while, the frame rate is lower than on Windows, which is much more important for VR games.

So as much as flat games work perfectly on Linux nowadays, it’s just not there for VR.

My reason is that VR gaming is not feasible on Linux, so I need to keep a Windows VM to play VR games.

There could be many reasons:

• The thing you are mining is actually very rare, and although it could be elsewhere, it’s the only place you found it. This is the case in Avatar. The Unobtanium they are mining is not found anywhere else.
• It’s easier to mine on a habitable planet. You don’t have all the extreme difficulty of operating in space or a planet/moon with no atmosphere. In Avatar workers can freely operate without any special equipment, using just a gas mask, and don’t need to be astronauts.
• You are assuming they found Pandora to mine on it. They probably found it through scientific research, and the mining angle only appeared later when the resource was found.

Another important detail is that in Avatar they don’t have any faster than light tech. Pandora is in the Alpha Centauri system, the closest star to the Sun, and it takes years to get there anyway. Sure, there might be lots of better places to choose, but it’s literally the only habitable body in reachable distance from Earth unless you want to spend decades flying in one direction.

Pandora was a moon, not a planet. (Doesn’t change your point, just correcting the detail.)

That’s fair, though I’d still say the CEO, leadership team, and other employees have more to do with running Amazon than someone who owns some shares.

Bezos stepped down as the CEO of Amazon in 2021, and also sold most of his shares to focus on his rocket company. Not disagreeing with your message, but Bezos doesn’t have much to do with Amazon anymore.