I think if you want to write a fake story, you need to make sure that by the end of it people realize they've been had. A high-effort troll is entertaining. A person who writes a story that just happens to not be true is just wasting everybody's time.
EDIT: What if OP wasn't a Reddit story faker? ๐ฎ
They still seem to be working though, or at least the ones I was using are. So that would suggest they weren't using API keys to access stuff.
Probably because they're big meanies.
The market share thing is real though. Computing is like 1% actually making hardware and software and 99% about getting the humans to agree with each other about how the hardware and software is meant to work, how pieces cooperate, and what it is meant to mean when any given piece does any given thing.
Proton et al. are amazing, but swapping out the whole system underneath a program for one it was never tested on, to provide APIs that are not actually expected to vary in their implementation details, and using GPU drivers that weren't extensively tested by the manufacturer in exactly these circumstances and individually tweaked to do specific things for that specific workload, is necessarily going to get you a worse result than doing it the way the program authors expected.
And you don't need very precise numbers to know that Linux is much less used on the desktop.
Maybe with developers targeting and testing on Steam Deck the situation will change, but trying to get two things to work together when only one of them is willing to change for it is extremely hard and I understand why one might compromise principles to avoid having to do it.
It would have been anything that implements Bios enough to boot MS-DOS, more or less.
But now that's not what anyone actually wants anymore since Windows, the thing people usually boot, wants UEFI instead. So I would say now it is probably anything that can run x86 code and boot Windows, even if it's from System76 and meant to run Linux.
A "security chip" is just any trusted hardware secure element that is tamper-proof and holds a manufacturer key, right?
Some implentations are going to have that as an available peripheral, and some are going to have it as in charge of the whole system, and one of those setups is fine.
Or I suppose it is fine until a lot of people actually use it. Then it starts to become a problem for people who don't feel like consenting to putting on whatever handcuffs people want to use the system to know that they are wearing.
I feel like the management engine card is sneakily changing the threat model in the middle of the conversation.
Is it bad? Yes. Is it a big source of security holes? Absolutely.
Is it a way that Facebook is going to profile you to try and sell you to advertisers? Or a reason why you can't ditch Windows? No.
So if we already took down Twitter, and Reddit, how do we kill Chrome?
Can I interest you in my new Lemmy instance, blanket-banned.zip?
Usually for Windows VM gaming you want to pass through a GPU and a USB controller and plug in directly. You might be able to use something like Steam streaming but I wouldn't recommend a normal desktop-app-oriented thin client setup, not having tried it.
You may run into weird problems with latency spikes: mostly it will work great and everything runs at 90 FPS or whatever, but then inexplicably 1 frame every few minutes takes 100ms and nobody can tell you why.
There can also be problems with storage access speed. What ought to be very fast storage on the host is substantially slower storage once the image file and host FS overhead, or the block device pass through overhead, come into play. Or maybe you just need an NVMe device to pass straight through.
How much does the money supply go up by? It can't really count as supplied if it's locked in a safe.
This is all terrible.
If I go on Mastodon am I supposed to check that the author of each toot hasn't done any crimes somehow before I click the little boost button? How would one actually go about doing that?
If you actually know someone has done or continues to do bad things that ought to get them ejected from the space, are you supposed to respond to that by refusing to interact with them while they are in the space, when they are not doing the bad things, as a sort of poorly coordinated attempt to eject them?
If we have a list of people so terrible that being nice to them means we should exclude you, then why the hell are they still here?