To be fair to Epic, I don’t want to leave Steam. It’s great having most of my games in one place. Steam has had very pro-customer policies. Even when I got some free games on Epic, if I ended up playing them a lot, I would just buy the game on Steam when it next went on sale just to keep my collection in one place
As long as Steam keeps favoring the users, I’ll keep using it
Fun fact: There is an entire article that clarifies the situation and gives you all sorts of relevant details. You can get to it by clicking on the title
many actually play in the background while she does something else, but apparently they’re necessary
Tangent, but I really wish shows could be tagged as second screen. I’m sick of starting something and realizing 20 minutes in that it’s designed and written to be passively listened to rather than actual entertainment
It’s insulting to be treated like a moron by a show because they assume you won’t be paying attention while watching
Netflix’s restrictions are not based on IP address. That would be an incredibly unreliable way of determining a location
They’re looking at the network you’re connected to. Exactly what they’re looking for is not public
Profitability of Bitcoin mining is dependent on the value of Bitcoin
No it isn’t. It’s driven by the supply of miners and demand of transactions. Value of bitcoin is almost entirely independent
ASICs, which are used to mine Bitcoin are using very different chips than modern GPUs. Ethereum is the one that affected the GPU market, and mining is no longer a thing for Ethereum
A massive Bitcoin spike would not affect the GPU market in any appreciable way
Crypto mining is pretty dumb, but misinformation helps no one
We really need a push based payment system. It’s absurd someone can take money from you simply by knowing your credit card or bank numbers
Or, even worse: At the whims of the president
It would be a convenient way to bypass having to pass legislation, allowing more consolidation of power in the executive branch
probably SSL
*TLS
SSL has been deprecated for a decade at this point
Steam is the only platform I can think of where I actually still trust the review