all valve games are linux native, as are lots of steam releases

The point is about the large majority that runs on top of Proton.

All modern games developed by Valve support Linux natively. They don't have much control over what other companies do.

Yes they do, put requirements on steam like any console vendor.

There are tens of thousands of titles on Steam, developed since 2004. It's going to be a while before the majority of the catalogue is Linux native.

You mean all the games that aren't Valve games? How is Valve supposed to create native Linux ports for them?

Like other stores, put them into the contract.

Feels like you're moving the goalposts. You said:

> The day they actually support native Linux games

They do, and have for a long time now, for nearly all of their own releases. There's not much more they can do than that; they don't control what platforms other companies want to port to.

Valve, the store owner, not Valve the game studio.

Sorry, but are you saying you believe Valve is responsible for the development of every game on their store? In case you're just genuinely unaware, games are developed by a variety of people and studios completely separately from Valve.

Did I miss something, don't they own the Steam Store, SteamDeck and dictate the rules what gets sold there?

Yes, and they opt to sell video games from most anyone who opts in to their store. Fundamentally, that is their business. What you're asking of them is beyond unreasonable because it fundamentally goes against what they do and it would immediately kill their business in its entirety if they stopped selling 99% of games. Then we wouldn't even get Proton and Linux would be truly dead for gaming.

What you're asking of them is akin to complaining that Apple sells tech instead of dishwashers when fundamentally that's so far from what they do that it's absurd, not to mention that if they suddenly stopped selling all tech their business would obviously die. I feel a bit foolish for even entertaining this because what you propose is so obviously outlandish to me that I'm about 85% sure you're just messing around to get a rise out of people.

Imperator (in English Emperor) was a title specifically invented by Augustus to avoid the title king. It might be roughly translated as "Commander", in a military sense.

That's definitely not correct. The first sentences in Wikipedia date its use to the Roman Kingdom and Republic, long before Augustus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator

Soldiers hailing their commanders Imperator on the battlefield was a requirement for a triumph under the Republic. Octavian did not invent the title.

You're right, he did go by imperator, my memory is poor, but his primary titles provided by the senate were "augustus" and "princeps."

At a certain point this kind of stuff becomes unfalsifiable, but the steady erosion of hard won worker rights and laws, as well as wages still fits in pretty nicely with his theories about end stage capitalism.

He certainly did not foresee the rise of the welfare state, but that doesn't mean the end of capitalism is going to be much different, its pretty easy to see how things are following the same trajectory in the end.

the best thing about them is you can constantly schedule large stock sales, and just cancel the ones that don't favour you.

Look ma, no inside information.

It needs to be cracked first, which hasn't happened yet.

because ARM was founded as a joint venture that included Apple, its extremely likely they have special terms.

Also simply because Apple is a big boy. They've historically been able to throw their weight around, for example manufacturing in China & blacklisting when they don't get deals they want/crazy deadlines and pace requirements; remember the suicide nets?

DNS is generally looked up once, on ruleset initalization, there is no way a firewall is going to look up DNS every single time a rule is referenced. Since DNS here is changing constantly, this is unhelpful.

Not sure we agree on a shared reality if you think even literally every single person in Hong Kong owning a gun is going to much of anything stop the CCP.

Yes, I think if literally every single person in Hong Kong had a gun that would be enough to stop the CCP. The entire active military of China is about 2 million people, less than a third of the approx. 7.5 million people in HK. Maybe the CCP could bomb the city into dust, but taking it over intact would be a practical impossiblity.

Maybe if everyone had guns and everyone was willing to let the city burn to the ground. But must people just want to get on with their lives for better or worse. The majority of Hong ong residents would not have supported all out war.

Sure, maybe it is possible if the residents are okay with the CCP taking over, but on the margin everyone being armed makes them taking action much more costly. Guerrillas were able win against the US in Vietnam, and Mao used guerrilla warfare himself and won against a better equiped military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Guerrilla_Warfare

What does dropbox have to do with "open source communities"

Some open source communities are worse than gamers in some cases.

Dropbox has nothing to do with open source communities, nor is HN an open source community.

How long until they realize they left all this proprietary software open to the public https://github.com/dropbox

Who says they can't do the job? It would be easy for a tech-knowledgeable scammer to interview at 100 companies, collect 100 pay-cheques and then dissapear.

I think that's a more realistic possibility. That you have an actual software engineer with tech knowledge doing old fashioned social engineering and doesn't care how many times they get fired. But the AI in this case is just providing a fake profile pic. It's not that deep, as the commenters in this thread are suggesting.