Prove_your_argument

There’s what companies admit to publicly, and then there’s what they’re working on behind closed doors.

Most EULA have vague lines like “We will use your data to improve our services” which translates to something like: Your data is used in the services we sell.

Perhaps there would be a legal argument against shit like this, but how do you prove it in court? Even if you get discovery the odds of them offering up database tables they’ve hidden away that key up users to the data is never gonna happen. You’d have to report it as an insider.

Maybe we should be offering up $10m+ whistleblower bounties for stuff like this, because short of giving someone a golden parachute they’re sure as shit not going to lose their careers over it.

I went with bitwarden and signs are pointing to them going to shit now.

Maybe it’s time for me to keep ass.

At least it’s just salesforce data and not actual vaults and secrets.

I moved away from these guys a long, long time ago when they started upping subscription costs.

I don’t think marketing was the problem, the lack of joysticks was a problem though for many.

PC gaming/Steam seems to be a lot more popular today than it was in 2015. Back then we didn’t have the scalper problem as bad as we have now either. Everybody I knew back then was using an xbox 360 wired controller, which I still think was one of the best controllers ever.

Now that every game page on steam shows controller support and the deck exists we’ve had a ton of focus on good or at least mostly functional controller controls in loads of games which never would have had it in the past.

I don’t think I would have much success trying to build a SFF PC today for 1k or less. You pay a premium for mini-itx and really tiny cases, PSUs, everything. The only cost that is the same is the CPU really, even a heatsink often needs to be very specific to fit a case.

The last two SFF cases I picked up that are high quality were $200. Just look at minisforum stuff, their products are expensive and look nice, it’s all in the same vein.

You can definitely find better deals for desktop gaming performance, for sure, but I doubt people are going to find something that’s off the shelf at 27L or less and same or better perf for cheaper.

I have a pile of spinning disks that were online for less than ten years under low usage load that failed. I have bins and bins full of them at work with enterprise drives too.

I have personally had a single ssd fail in 15 years, it was an SX6000 that died from controller issues. My first ones were 64GB ones back in the infancy of SSDs. The controllers have come a long way and speeds are now 10-100x faster and much more reliable. Never, ever had one go bad from TBW personally or professionally. I’ve never even met someone who has gotten that to happen, the controllers usually go long before the NAND.

12 years is still beyond the lifetime of a typical computer. Even if you do not have component failures you start spending more money on power to run these things than it would cost to replace them with faster, larger capacity newer systems that use less energy for more oompf. Only people with free or nearly free power are immune to this which is not common.

I’m not saying just throw out all the old systems though, but most people aren’t gonna limp along on a 12 year old system as their daily driver. It might be ok for basic web browsing, word processing and email… but not much more than that. If it’s a laptop it’s gonna be dog slow.

The idea that hibernation is going to cause substantial SSD wear is ludicrous on all but the smallest SSDs in systems with large amounts of RAM.

Hibernation is only going to be saving ram in memory, so for most consumer systems 8, 16 or 32GB. Most SSDs nowadays are rated for hundreds to thousands of terabytes written as an effective life so you would need to hibernate hundreds of thousands of times. Even an aggressively low lifespan drive like a 256GB with ~500TBW would last over 18,000 full 32GB writes. Let’s pretend you hibernate four times a day every day, every year. 365*4 = 1460 hibernations per year. 18,000/1460 = 12.32 years. Long past the lifespan of a computer. No spinning disk is likely to survive this long either.

They even call it out in their article with their own math of twice a year and come up with 25 years of life. Just not something to worry about, at all, for almost any practical use case.

There’s way too much stuff I need to do remotely to limit it to streaming just games or the UI. Back when I suffered windows I used parsec, but moonlight is far superior if you can solve for networking.

i’ve had headsets with it. Just takes a very small battery with some seconds of life.

Ah yes, run this random shell script hosted on the internet.

And I got downvoted for suggesting that they use an ML tool like crowdstrike to scan submissions for weird things… and for some reason people pointed out that they caused one incident of linux crashes and one incident of windows crashes last year. What if I told you that you could run a scan like that on a VM with the storage, web hosting and everything else entirely separate from said scanning VM… but no, random shell scripts into terminal GO!

Just seeing the results of a sandbox detonation should give you some level of an idea that something is bad or not bad. This kind of tooling isn’t exclusive to any one entity and the results should be part of any repo for anyone to review and flag if you really want to avoid ML as a layer of defense.

I wonder if this will give them reason to consider an ML tool or something like crowdstrike to scan the repo.

affects mobile the most obviously… but google’s playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.

The transition period from the 90s to mid 2000s for control schemes was so fragmented. I remember a dozen games with wildly different control schemes. Wasn’t until the late 2000s when things started getting more standardized to what we know today.