TimLovesTech

I think the point is that they outnumber us by many billions, but humans see themselves as ruling the earth because of our size.

I agree that for you it doesn't make sense, but outside of the "competitive" FPS genre compatibility covers most everything else, minus things with crazy kernel level DRM rootkits. But you really shouldn't be playing those on Windows either IMHO. And if more people didn't support them on Windows devs might be forced to use compatible anti-cheat that would benefit gamers on all platforms.

I'm also a casual gamer that will just move onto something else in my backlog if a dev breaks proton compatibility.

Depending on the product, the manufacturer themselves might link you to their "store" on Amazon. =(

Well your only going to be as fast as the slowest server in that chain, with all the latency/any dropped packets/etc. driving down your speeds. Also, if it's built for security it almost certainly isn't prioritizing speed test traffic of all things.

If they were a "computer person" enough to know how, or willing to let the Geek Squad over charge them for something as simple as installing more RAM or HD upgrade. But yes, it's not like a TPM that would require a motherboard swap, which isn't a thing for laptops outside of Framework (and then only just recently).

Especially since that Saudi influence has the President's son-in-law pooling money with them on this investment ( from his shady deals made during Trump's 1st term).

Some people did as they didn't meet that min specs, but it wasn't for something silly like the TPM requirement. Locking 11 behind a non-serviceable upgrade is artificially creating e-waste, and they should be forced to pay for it all to be properly recycled, but capitalism cares more about making the graph go up than becoming the earth from Wall-E

The same was said when Microsoft sunset XP and "forced" everyone to use Windows 10 - the last Windows™.

Well doing it themselves would be ambitious for a small dev, which would almost certainly lead to devs using these fly-by-night "verification" companies that you hope are doing the right thing with everyones info.

This sounds like a headache for Google and Apple, and if I was a small dev I would just geo-block Texas rather than jump through their useless hoops.

I think the documentary "How Music Got Free" takes anyone that was around back then right back to the days of scene races, FTP top sites, and IRC bots. And the documentary is about music, but it was the same for most all other media also (movies/games/etc.).

Yeah, why use renewable energy when you can use a dirty finite resource that will almost certainly rise in price over their time horizon.