In the 1990s we were unsupervised 90% of the time between school and bedtime.

I’m sort of okay with this.

I guess Sony didn’t revoke any movies you bought without any refund just a few days ago?

I think it’s a disease a bit like addiction.

Give me all your money then. Get rid of your addiction.

Money is a disease

That’s what rich people want to make normal people think.

I never understand the thought process of giving a Linux newcomer some niche Ubuntu derivative.

Just go with Bazzite desktop. Pretty popular and should something go wrong, there is fairly up to date information out there, so no forum posts from 15 years ago with shell commands that at best don’t work and at worst break stuff.

One concern I have is she uses her personal laptop for work

Employer needs to provide a new notebook.

They would definitely not agree to that

dbrand wouldn’t ask them – as usual

Just make Frank face plates. Surely nothing will go wrong.

Why am I not surprised they didn’t get a license

Why am I not surprised they went ahead without even asking to get a license?

Pretty sure these are the occasional individuals, not large scale bot nets.

The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.

You mean the thing that was amazing advertisement for the computing power of the PS3 over the Xbox360? Yeah, Sony suffered so much from the abuse.

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.