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  • There are some games tbat are sold on both steam and other platforms. Many of these games have external modding communities. Steam provides slick integration for “workshop” mods, which helps drive sales.

    A few years back steam used to allow fairly open API access if you acquired the game elsewhere and just wanted the mods. And then they turned it off, but still allow direct anonymous downloads. A decision that only makes sense if they wanted to lock in any steam-adopted community to make going elsewhere difficult.

    Turning off something people were using to avoid potential competitors is kinda exactly what would count as “monopolistic behavior” if Steam were to be ruled a monopoly by a court




  • Depends on the data you want to save, and how friendly the apps that put it there are to the data being moved.

    Assuming the data is all file-based and well behaved, and you’re an administrator on the local PC the steps would be something like:

    1. Create the new local account and sign in once.
    2. Sign out new account and in as admin.
    3. Take a copy of the new account’s folder in C:\Users
    4. Replace that folder’s contents with (a copy of) the old account’s contents.
    5. Drop the new folder’s data over the old, replacing any conflicts.
    6. Replace the permission for all contents of the new folder.

    And, of course:

    *Implement a real backup plan for any actually important files. Cloud service folders are ONE copy, and don’t count as backups of themselves.



  • I don’t think there’s anything especially offensive about recognizing that (trans)gender affirming care would be covered under an expensive definition of transhumanism. Except for two key points.

    • So would eyeglasses, any dental care beyond cleaning and tooth pulling, and any surgery that includes a graft or pin.
    • Transition of apparent sex is not necessary to be transgender. A transgender woman doesn’t suddenly become a cis man just because you deny her HRT.

    Republican hypocrisy on the subject essentially boils down to “poors and children are property, not people.”



  • Calculation is a fundamental part of mathematics. You can’t get to caring about game theory or infinities without understanding calculation, and calculation itself has iterative components of counting, addition, multiplication, and formulas.

    Children are trained by rote how to calculate so they can function in a society with strangers. The same skills that are of benefit to the current capitalist oligarchy would also be of benefit to a socialist republic, communist democracy, anarchist market, or technologist dictatorship.

    The idea that basic skills are somehow tainted by their utility for the status quo is the dumbest idea in revolutionary thought, and is essentially the main culprit for the sort of atrocities that reinforce the anti-revolutionary impulse which props up the status quo.