TL;DR for anybody worried. systemd-tmpfiles --purge
was too broad in scope (and has a confusing name) so now you must be more specific when using it to avoid accidentally deleting things.
It was written 25 years ago and untouched since probably.
From the article
The problem seems to revolve around brands that haven't acquired this licensing
It seems to just be rent seeking? Since it’s retroactive there probably isn’t a security change and malicious hardware can spoof being licensed, though this is unclear. So it probably only hurts legitimate small brands.
Proprietary software can never be truly trusted. You are always at their whims.
It would just lead to the decay of society where nobody is responsible for their own commitments.
Most OS statistics come from web usage which is probably pretty minimal for Steam Decks.
They can read the room, the US government is pathetic.
They don’t care about Firefox. Chrome is the browser market, they have weakened extensions, they implemented DRM, and here we are.
Because they don’t have the same generational wealth.
Many people have been taught regulation is bad, not much logic to it.
USB-C as a connector can easily last a decade, much longer for just power delivery.
A PC from 2003 still runs a modern OS. No Apple isn’t the good guy, other companies are just even cheaper.
It is on by default in Windows.. More likely people have routers with it disabled.