If Valve starts utilising Intel ME to do what I’m warning everyone about is it on Valve or Intel?

Nvidia (and everyone else) sells their GPUs/NPUs to the highest bidders they can legally sell them to. Not sure how that’s relevant to this discussion.

What are Nvidia and Intel doing?

I’m dying on this hill because people act like Valve is different. If I had to guess it’s PC players that want to feel superior to others, even though they were first to lose access to physical copies of games and second hand market it provided.

https://sjp.pl/psiecko

Valve, unlike Dell, has the power to vertically integrate an ecosystem. They own an app store with de facto monopoly over PC gaming. If Valve says that starting 2030 you can only run Steam on Windows and their own locked down OS (and enforce that via bootloader or some other measure) what can you do about it? You only licensed games from them, never bought them.

The equivalent of that $300 Dell in 10 years is even more likely to be locked down. Open hardware will become more and more niche, and therefore even more expensive comparatively. This is where the entire industry seems to be going.

https://wykop.pl/link/7830323/baner-z-marszu-niepodleglosci-kotki-i-psiecka-nie-zastapia-ci-dziecka

[edit] Chłopczęta Wszechpolskie chyba zapiekło: https://www.donald.pl/artykuly/UYJxudxc/mlodziez-wszechpolska-poprawila-swoj-slynny-baner-i-przyznala-ze-mezczyzni-tez-sa-odpowiedzialni-za-katastrofe-demograficzna

To nie jest plakat MW - ich plakat przenosił winę na kobiety decydujące się na psa zamiast dziecka. Ta wersja to żart z tego, że do zrobienia dziecka typowo potrzeba dwóch osób.

Multiple online casinos for underage customers that he runs disagree.

Why does it have to? Valve isn’t known for maintaining legacy software. You assume your software will run forever as-is but you can see how that looks like in accelerated timeline in the case of Valve games on Macs.

It’s pretty hard to pirate on iOS (and it will be hard on Android too eventually). Their plan is to do this gradually, definitely not in a single generation of hardware. They’ll have pretty strong arguments for locking down the bootloader (kernel level anti-cheat for games like CoD or Valorant) or just plain locking Steam to supported platforms to lock you out of other OSs first.

Not yet but they hold you by the balls because you buy license most of your games through Steam. Once they’re entrenched enough they can do whatever. Android was a very open platform in the beginning, now it’s almost iOS. You can fork Android / SteamOS but without Play Store / Steam consumers aren’t that interested.

You missed the part where Android wanted to lock people out of installing their own apps. They postponed it for now due to pressure but it will happen eventually. Also the part where bootloaders lock you out of changing OS. This thing is possible when you vendor lock people in a vertically integrated system and people here are completely oblivious to the trap they’re walking into because they think Valve will be forever cool.

What is it with far right and their tendency to abuse amphetamines?

It should be outlawed but this is jus a circus for conservative political tribe. CPP has 300 members, can’t get enough signatures to run in any election and is entirely irrelevant. You’ll find Discord servers with more political influence.

There’s been definitely way more people running custom roms 10 years ago. Xiaomi got a start with a custom rom.

What stops Windows? Business consumers paying for the OS and the fact that they don’t have any successful app store. What stops Valve?

Are you sure that’s relevant when every major Android OEM locks their bootloaders now? Illusion of an open system.

Does Heroic launcher guarantee that the game you bought will not break Wine compatibility when patched by the developer? What kind of consumer experience are you trying to sell here?

Lol, for someone who’s been proven to be factually wrong and talking out of ass multiple times already in this single thread you seem incredibly confident that I’m wrong.