It could be as innocent as 'Give us a cut or stop it'. Innocent being a relative term because helping export surveillance capitalism is arguably worse than 'simply' accepting a bribe but the bar is in hell at this point.

First game was Portal, but I got it free when Portal 2 came out. First games I spent money on and got on Steam were a couple of Humble Bundles (Introversion, Egosoft, EA). My first purchase actually from Steam was Goat Simulator.

I was lucky to have an ATI Radeon 9250 256mb back in the day, like the good one with the wider memory bus that actually performed closer to a 9500. In Windows at least. The 9250 managed to sneak between the 'legacy' driver and the 'new' driver and wasn't supported by either under linux.

Yeah, we've been here before.

Is this why they've been working on a web app for configuration instead of Synapse? This is a win for everybody.

Know your System Lords

Everyone should have to provide ID before sending or receiving a message via carrier pigeon. /s

It was also on Cartoon Network in the 90's and Boomerang in the early 2000's.

I mean, how many generations of these glasses until they don't look like this? I've worn glasses for 30 years and don't like contacts. As someone who HATES this kind of crap and will never wear a pair of these, I dread the day when you can't tell the difference and everyone with glasses is a potential privacy risk.

Most users don't know, care, or understand why Chrome and Google are bad. There's also a big difference between Google collecting your data and malicious actors stealing your data and using it to rob you or target you for other scams.

"No, Sir! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!"

I'm sure there's a word for that, right?