LOL, Depends who “they” is. The NSA? Sure. Your local PD? No.

What’s far more likely to happen if you do that is that you get caught up in a dragnet and accused of a crime you haven’t committed because they know you were nearby and need a fall guy.

Well I did speak in the present tense.

It’s been “in the works” for years.

Give Steam/Valve enough power and it’ll do the same.

Valve has tons of power. Like, a lot. They seem to (for the most part) wield it responsibly. They’re certainly not perfect but time and time again, given the choice, they choose to do the right thing. Look no further than the Steam Deck.

Imagine how easy it would have been to ship it with Windows. But they went through the pain-staking and expensive process of creating Proton and making everything work super smoothly on a completely open-source OS, and even funding the developers of said OS. Sure, they needed something to distance themselves from Microsoft but imagine how easy it would be for them to lock down the OS so that you could never leave Steam or install any competing stores or make any modifications. Or they could even create their own OS/ecosystem like XBOX and PS do.

Imagine how easy it would have been to be like every other OEM and glue it together and solder everything to the mobo and make it completely unrepairable/unupgradeable. Instead they gave it a removable back and updated it to use torx screws and partnered with iFixIt to ensure longevity out of respect for their consumers.

Imagine how easy it would be to just ignore Denuvo and EULAs and 3rd party accounts, but they force publishers to list them.

They also have an excellent track record for customer support.

And simultaneously refuse to acknowledge how men are portrayed the same way.

Installing an OS is so easy even I can do it, and it only takes about a half an hour on a modern machine.

As a bonus you can pick and choose whatever cases and other components, and get the most performance for your money.

Not trying to tell you what to do, but if you haven’t tried you should give it a go. Bazzite is really awesome and I use it on my living room PC. Only thing it’s missing is HDMI-CEC to turn on automatically and the sleep/resume function and the power up with controller.

Nah, there are lots of devices that have them already, notably the Legion Go.

If you’re looking for ethical hardware manufacturers, there are none. Just do a clean install when you get it, like every other computer.

I would assume licensing SteamOS legally prevents them from doing something like that, but who knows.

Why would they want to do that? Like, if I’m Lenovo, I’m genuinely excited about this, and want people to buy it. They can pocket the difference on the Windows license while selling more units because the product is more attractive. They have no reason to actively encourage people to stick with Windows, unless MS is paying them to?

It really just seems like an experiment for them. I hope people buy them…

Lenovo is trying to add value for the people who want to stick to Windows

Why would they do that?

In May, the true experiment will begin when gamers can pick between a $499.99 SteamOS version with 16GB / 512GB, a $599.99 Windows version with 16GB / 1TB

Is there any logical reason for the Windows version to have more storage? What is that about?

Apple is always silent, because they know they have no justification for their bullshit.

No one thinks Apple, or any other ecosystem for that matter, is completely private. It’s just far more private than Android. Primarily because Apple is not an advertising company.

I did read and didn’t see anything about archiving pages.

Why wouldn’t I just use the bookmark manager in my browser?

“If I have one regret… I do wish we had been able to change the way we can elect governments in this country,” he said, referring to his hopes to changing the voting system.

I mean you could have actually tried to do the thing you were elected to do…

Ah well that’s a loss for everyone.

There’s a Frigate app within Home Assistant.

Me in 2005: “Bots please crawl my site!”

Me in 2025: “Bots GTFO my site!”