do you think it would stop a savvy IT personnel?

You expect companies to list on their tax forms with hundreds of Steam accounts?

No, machine generated output is not eligible for copyright protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

Duh - people are shitty and would abuse it.

One order per valid account (the same restrictions they applied to Steam Deck purchases years ago, account at least a year old and previous game purchases from that account). There can’t be large scale abuse.

If they did that, some companies would buy them for their offices. It can probably run Windows too.

Not if Valve sticked to their 1 order per valid account rule.

All the same

Sure. Fans work totally different when there’s a slightly newer processor.

Of course. And it will last for years.

The Steam Machine uses semi-custom processors.

Steam Machine uses old crap AMD had lying around. This is also why it’s not an APU design.

Companies like Asus fart out new designs every year. It’s doable if the design pipeline if efficient enough.

changing the design now

Not now. When RAM prices started skyrocketing. That wasn’t only today or yesterday.

The point of shitty old processors was to get them cheap. Now that RAM and storage are the biggest factors, they could have gone with newer processors and not be significantly more expensive but significantly more performant.

Tech workers

I don’t. Not that this has to be true for others but I use the command line for ping, ipconfig, and winget.

Well who uses powershell? Common people open command prompt and it doesn’t support ls.

Windows Terminal is shipped with Windows and defaults to PowerShell. Too bad Windows ships some ancient PS version by default but winget install Microsoft.PowerShell isn’t that complicated.

Cheap Eastern European and Indian coders.

ls works on Windows just fine. PowerShell understands this command since a long time, maybe even since the very beginning (not looking through the git commits, just to find out).

Well, you made a wrong claim that I merely corrected. Watch whatever wherever you want. Doesn’t change the fact that the documentary creators I follow for the vast majority only upload to YouTube and those that also upload to Nebula offer a worse experience there.

you know who else has documentaries?

PBS.

support your local public broadcasting stations, people.

And do you know which documentaries they don’t have? The ones that are uploaded by their creators only to YouTube.

I watch plenty of Arte and I pay the fee but documentaries about video game speedruns etc. simply aren’t on Arte (or PBS or Nebula). I watch those where they are: YouTube.

it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.

If you click on mindless shit, the algorithm serves you mindless shit. I get documentaries. 🤷

Archive.is is a Russian propaganda bot net. Don’t use it.

Edge is pretty much dead.

I honestly don’t know why. If you are a Windows user and don’t care about privacy, you may just as well stick with Edge. As a Chromium web browser by a megacorp, it’s in no way worse than Chrome.