Steam wallet funds expressly have no monetary value in the steam user agreement, and it explicitly states in the steam user agreement it’s against their tos to sell items off of their market. So they are covered. Second hand markets exist but it’s without valves support or consent, they aren’t breaking the law. A court can’t compel valve to restrict user freedom (trading digital items) because they don’t shut down websites that they have no ability to shut down.
I don’t think that’s how the law is written though. You can only get steam wallet funds for your skins, steam wallet funds explicitly have no cash value. The transaction at that point is done. A video game also has “real world value” you could just as easily say well I get steam wallet funds and than sell gifted games to other people. I don’t think your argument tracks with the law or steams user agreement.
They are brining up the good argument that this would essentially make baseball and pokemon cards gambling and illegal as well, I’m not a lawyer but with the way the law is written and from my understanding of it valve has a very good chance of getting this dismissed or wining in court. It would suddenly make many other things illegal if they loose.
In its motion to dismiss, Valve continued to heavily criticize the lawsuit. “Can parents purchase packs of baseball cards for their children?” it said. “Can families go to Chuck E. Cheese to play games of chance and exchange winning tickets for prizes? Can a child reach into a cereal box and grab a surprise toy? All these actions and more could lead to chargeable crimes under NYAG’s interpretation of gambling.”
Great company, but no peer-to-peer, right? Automatic disqualification, imo for a general use vpn
The first VPN provider that comes to mind (for an average Joe) is probably the one you should avoid though lol. Advertising works on many people, but the thought process that the more ads you see from a single company, the worse their products are holds true for many situations.
Best example is that shitty earbuds company that I’m sure you all remember seeing ads for in the past, still see them occasionally but not as much. Completely unrelated but I like cryptostorm for vpn provider, they are very against kyc and you can get access to their servers without a single piece of identifying information.
And all our plants are old and unsafe as fuck compared to new modern designs. So building new ones would likely be even more safe
Just YouTube, but I only watch and don’t comment or use it as social media.
"However, the breakthrough reportedly came when he uploaded files from his old college computer into Claude.
Rather than simply guessing the password, Claude helped dig through the old files and identify an older wallet.dat file that appeared to predate the password change. The user also reportedly had an old mnemonic phrase, which helped unlock the wallet once the correct file was found."
“Not my job”
I will be shocked if that works forever. Maybe it’ll be five, maybe it’ll be ten years, but I bet they will kill that eventually.
Uh no, my mobile phone, its just hidden what SoC I have
Firefox on mobile obscured GPU.
“Your browser masked your graphics processor. Firefox and Safari have started returning generic strings — “Mozilla”, “Apple”, “or similar” — instead of the real renderer. The fact that yours did so tells us, with reasonable confidence, which browser you are running. The mask is also a fingerprint.”
I’m positive pc sales have slumped probably just as much, it’s getting really quite expensive to build or buy a pc again.
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I know it’s not possible for everyone, but I just cut ties with any application that wouldn’t work on Linux and found alternatives.
I had about 700 hours played in high school, I picked the game back up ~2021 and am now up to 2,000 hours. Working from home helped with that alot, although I haven’t played in 2 or so months.
Team Fortress 2
Until the West stops restricting lithography machines, or China develops their own advanced lithography machines, we likely won’t see Chinese GPUs for sale in our markets.
I’m personally hoping China has a breakthrough on lithography machines to break ASML’s monopoly and fuck over all these extremely rich companies, but we’re not going to see anything like that happen for 10 plus years.
But in 10 years, oh boy, we’re gonna have so much cheaper China tech, it’ll be awesome.
This is fine with me. Copyright is stupid and textbook companies are ass. Even if you don’t like LLMs, copyright is still ass.
There is no evidence I have seen that Valve supports 3rd party market places, and like I said the steam user agreement explicitly forbids them. There is nothing illegal about their own market place because you are paid in steam wallet funds and steam wallet funds cannot be exchanged for real world money. This case is going to flop, valve will win this one.