Yes, because the checkout page gets revenue ⇒ the bottom line.

The points you say are the things Valve is doing extra to provide value to the customer.
The point I am saying, is the first thing that anyone working for money needs to care about.

steampowered checkout page:

• loads in a reasonable time
• has the same colour theme as the rest of the website

Epic checkout page:

• even the in-app checkout page is slower than the Steam web checkout page
  • is slow not only before loading but also after clicking the ‘place order’ button
• White colour on dark theme website/app

The best way to get a shitty review out of me is to make fight scenes and not care about what you studied in high-school kinematics.
Stop a character mid-air without stopping time -> -1.
It was not for quick-time dialogue event, but just randomly stopped the character in air -> -5.

While EGS increases its minimum Windows # requirements, Steam client is already available on Linux.
Although I would prefer being able to build it myself rather than keeping it in Firejail

Epic would charge Steam’s fees if they had Steam’s marketshare.

while at the same time providing worse service.
Ever noticed the difference between Epic checkout vs Steam checkout? And that is the part one would want to make the best, because that’s what gets the money in.

I get I am not the average gamer, but even if I find a game on Steam, I tend to check their website too.
Specially for games I like, I try getting the GoG version despite Steam providing regional pricing, which tends to be 0.2x

Now if any of Steam’s contracts is preventing GoG or others from providing regional pricing, that’s a point worth considering.
But Steam is providing a much better game finding experience than Epic and others (although GoG seems to be doing well too, recently), so despite me not being affected by the network effect, I do see some value in Steam.

From what I see, Steam does give value to gamers. Whether it’s worth 30% of the game’s price or lesser, depends upon information that I don’t know. But if someone provides greater value than the competitors, should they not get more money in return?

There’s an easier way to put this:
“Question everything.”

recycling the heat from AI data centers

I’d say the govts should make it mandatory for anyone making a large enough data centre, to create a heat transfer infrastructure to nearby localities. The locals can then buy hot water (metered) via pipelines from the local govt and that can go towards paying for the power extension tax that the data centre has to pay.
Oh yes, there needs to be a power extension tax first, which is levied on anyone setting up data centres to use for wasteful stuff like AI, Crypto-mining etc. Of course, that only matters if they are taking power from the grid and/or building near populated areas (any amount of population).

All heat transfer is radiative if you zoom in enough.

Used it. Got yelled at.

At this point, if you don’t feel comfortable to tell them why and the consequences of doing what they ask of you, then you might want to start finding another place, because the subsequent events are inevitable.

I see.
I haven’t tried mirrored displays (just never needed it). Perhaps I can try that out if I get a different size/res monitor.
My 100Hz display can do 60Hz, so I am expecting it to just drop to that when I mirror them with this setup.

To cause problems that is.
If I can reproduce the problem, I might be able to think what might be causing it.

But do you have the latest ranged defence system with active threat detection, automatic manoeuvre solution generation and trajectory determined smart countermeasure deployment, which provides protection from APCBC, SAPHECBC, APFSDS, HEATFS ATGM-OTA and ATGM-VT*?

NO!
There’s not even a wide spectrum RADAR over there.

YOu poking keyboard!

How mismatched do they have to be though?
I have 2 monitors, 1 Benq, another MSI. 1 @ 60Hz and another @100Hz.
When I move a window with VSync to the 100Hz monitor, it starts doing 100Hz and changes back to 60Hz when I move it back to the 60Hz monitor.
It works fine when I 90° one of them.

Though the resolution and screen dimensions (hence pixel pitch) are the same. So is it one of these that needs to be different?

And that’s where my comment matches what the Avid Amoeba is going with, that Debian will make the hardware usable for so long that RISC V might be mainstream (and maybe even powerful enough compared to current x86_64) by the time I decide to change the system.

IIRC the x86_64 binaries won’t work, so you will require a reinstall.

As long as the new user makes the mistake of buying a perfectly matching desktop, it’s fine.

What if my new hardware ends up being RISC V?

Yeah, and that’s why crypto is not catching up well.
Kind of a chicken and egg thing.

But in case of Gold and Silver, there had to be some initial driving factor for when it was first popularised (before people just started mentally defaulting to it).
Even though archaeology suggests that there were some civilisations did use notational currency in times before the relatively modern, well known history, enough of them did go with Gold. And since this was during the time when long distance trade was way slower, I won’t consider the case of some single power influencing everyone else without any other driving force behind Gold itself.

Price of NAS HDD I am monitoring, went up 1% in past week in ongoing trend (over 20% over the past ~4 months).
I’d say BIG AI is still steaming.

No idea about OpenAI, specifically.