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Hannibalistique said:
Stallman is surprisingly approachable, I've emailed him a lot about random shit and he's surprisingly insightful and always very polite.
gaben is also very nice, but he went straight to business and CCed in a bunch of people so it was a bit more intimidating.
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One time I emailed gaben cause I was incorrectly community banned along with 100 other people who interacted with a steam review I made
Within a couple days I was unabnned without a word but steam support had given me the runaround for days
 
acid_ra1n said:
One time I emailed gaben cause I was incorrectly community banned along with 100 other people who interacted with a steam review I made
Within a couple days I was unabnned without a word but steam support had given me the runaround for days
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I was permabanned from the community since ever because I once mentioned using Daz activation for Windows 7. Recently I mentioned it in a tweet to Gaben and later got unbanned with an apology from support.
 
Betonhaus said:
I was permabanned from the community since ever because I once mentioned using Daz activation for Windows 7. Recently I mentioned it in a tweet to Gaben and later got unbanned with an apology from support.
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Ya once gaben kicks the bucket or retires or whatever I'm not much of a gamer anymore but I may try to go with gog autism for my retro gaming thing. Kind of afraid of steam without that guy correcting their fucking blunders. It'll be one less piece of proprietary software I rely on.
 
acid_ra1n said:
Ya once gaben kicks the bucket or retires or whatever I'm not much of a gamer anymore but I may try to go with gog autism for my retro gaming thing. Kind of afraid of steam without that guy correcting their fucking blunders. It'll be one less piece of proprietary software I rely on.
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Gabe has been kind of retired for a number of years, IIRC, and one of his sons is now running the company. If it ever goes public, that is when you have to worry.
 
SchizoDaemon said:
Gabe has been kind of retired for a number of years, IIRC, and one of his sons is now running the company. If it ever goes public, that is when you have to worry.
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None of his sons work at Valve, one does do indie game development iirc, but yeah, Gabe is mostly retired now, and is more focused on his other companies since steam itself just exists, the employees know not to fuck with shit if it works, especially the people who would take control of the company if he dies.
 
Rust Troony said:
if he dies.
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Hannibalistique said:
Stallman is surprisingly approachable, I've emailed him a lot about random shit and he's surprisingly insightful and always very polite.
gaben is also very nice, but he went straight to business and CCed in a bunch of people so it was a bit more intimidating.
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He visited my school years ago (ages ago if we're being honest) and even though a prof offered him a hotel he insisted on just sleeping on a couch in someone's living room.
 
Rust Troony said:
None of his sons work at Valve, one does do indie game development iirc, but yeah, Gabe is mostly retired now, and is more focused on his other companies since steam itself just exists, the employees know not to fuck with shit if it works, especially the people who would take control of the company if he dies.
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Oh ok. I not sure where I had heard that from then.
 
Baraka Obama said:
He visited my school years ago (ages ago if we're being honest) and even though a prof offered him a hotel he insisted on just sleeping on a couch in someone's living room.
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I remember on /g/ we were joking cause he had asked to bum someone's couch for a time cause he was having trouble finding housing or something
None of us could offer cause we'd end up doxxing ourselves though but he's kind of funny that way
 
King Vidiot said:
I am not going to start worrying until LTS support for the 6.x kernel ends. If things look really bad at that point, I can switch my file server to BSD. I am more attached to ZFS than I am to Linux.
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The backports to LTS are a complete shitshow, though. Lots of hallucinations and all the good stuff that comes with automated backports by LLMs. https://x.com/spendergrsec/ is entertaining but scary to follow if you use a LTS kernel.
 
999 said:
On April 2026 Jewish tranny* Alyssa Rosenzweig joined the X.org Foundation Board of Directors. He has previously worked on Asahi Linux and later as a contractor for Valve. I have not seen this discussed anywhere, though considering X.org's glacial development speed, I doubt it matters.
*According to Wikipedia he "transitioned" at age 10. :stress:
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+1 to the myriad reasons why you ought to have OpenBSD in your back pocket. XLibre is good but it is in large part v*be coded, so I am not as hopeful as I'd like to be for it in the long term. Then again, there is always Arcan...
 
King Vidiot said:
I am not going to start worrying until LTS support for the 6.x kernel ends. If things look really bad at that point, I can switch my file server to BSD. I am more attached to ZFS than I am to Linux.
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I am unironically looking at FreeBSD for a bunch of stuff at the moment. I've installed it on my laptop. There are some annoying things e.g. I have a UK keyboard layout and when you enter your encryption key during boot, it uses the US layout, so I have to map in my head which keys to press for special chars in my encryption password.
Unintelligence Score said:
Fuck Cosmic Desktop.
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Agreed. I made the mistake of trying it. Also generally I don't like Pop!_OS.
 
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