Yeah. Two years is just about long enough for a company to figure out that a manager is useless.

Some AI models already argue when people point out inaccuracies, just like on Reddit.

The start of the bubble popping was the increases in interest rates. We’ve seen several online companies shut down already because the free money isn’t there any more and there is no path to monetization.

The problem with the Fediverse right now is that it is all run on volunteer labor and donations, similar to an early Reddit. It will be interesting to see how a distributed system solves this problem.

The only thing a third party app can do is keep phone based activity private. If you have to ping a server to do something, that point becomes their data.

However, Android is quite a bit different from what is broadly understood as Linux.

I would argue that the difference has a lot to do with whether the user is typically a consumer or participant. Valve seems to be making a a form of Linux for consumers, even if participants can use the system.

After all, why buy the Steam Deck to delete Steam from it?

Do you count Android users as “participants”?

There’s a huge difference between GPS which is effectively a rootkit, and Steam which is a userland application however.

For now. But also, phone companies can use Android without GPS, but they have to rebuild a lot of functionally to get it to work, and this was done as a design decision by Google to maintain control over Android. I can easily see Valve doing this in the future. Hell, imagine Valve buying Unity and integrating it to Steam while keeping developer costs low.

You can use Android without Google Play Services and people do, but the vast majority of people using Android use Google Play Services.

I can see that happening to Linux on the desktop if the main driver is Steam.

Valve is not forcing us to run steam.

Valve runs the DRM that runs Steam. They are making the platform desktop agnostic, but that may not be sustainable.

Also what the hell do you mean by consumer linux is steam¿?

After the release of the Steam Deck, Linux on Steam has seen an increase so large that it now beats Apple for the #2. Steam may push users to Linux, but still run the Steam walled garden.

And what are most people running to game on Linux? Consumer Linux right now is Android and Steam; servers have their own systems.

I’m not saying Valve was wrong. However, I can see Valve trying to do the same with Linux.

Valve’s strategy is to maintain dominance of their software platform, Steam.

It has been pushing Linux as a viable computer platform as a counter to if/when Microsoft wanted to monetize PC gaming in direct competition to Steam, which seems to be a wise decision.

Because they are trying to tap into a primal fear to get people to do what they want them to do.

I’m amazed that Google was able to get away with dumping in developing Android.