I kind of see the appeal. "That one article I read that one time on who knows what app" is something I've wanted in the past and failed to find.

But I would absolutely never trust Microsoft to do it under any circumstances.

And if we pretend it isn't Microsoft or Microsoft isn't inherently super shady, all of the ridiculous security holes in the last version tell you that security was an afterthought. You don't get a stable building by throwing a bunch of shit together then patching every hole someone points out to you after the fact. You get it by designing your building, from the start, with the understanding of how every element plays a role in the structural integrity of your design. Security is the same. You can't just "make it secure" without starting over with security as a critical design goal.

They should be legally required to refund full purchase price plus interest in every case. If there are legal fees to get compliance, multiply that plus the refund by five.

You know the fact that you need 4 alarms is probably because the caffeine kills your sleep quality right?

They didn't create anything of any type. They just declined games that didn't follow their rules.

Except it doesn't make class actions more expensive, because it removes the step of invalidating the arbitration clause.

Footing the bill for arbitration was pro-consumer. They abandoned the whole thing because of bad faith frivolous lawsuit spam trying to extort settlements, not for any other reason.

Their fundamentals are too strong. They have market dominance with extremely steady technological progress against really bad competition. LLMs aren't going to disappear when the shitty overpromising bubble pops. Generative AI isn't going anywhere. Any of the thousands of other uses for their raw power are still there. They'll just be at the ground floor of whatever the next math heavy hype cycle is, just like they were with crypto and LLMs, because cuda is the best way to get shit done, whether what you're doing is useful or trash.

Why do you need an installer? Most of the games we're talking about you can just run the executable and be fine, because those are the games actually willing to publish on GOG. The ones that are substantial enough to need an installer are the same ones I talk about in B, that don't get basic patches and bug fixes, because GOG's customer base isn't worth the effort and GOG wouldn't have the games at all if they required update parity.

But again, it's completely irrelevant, because GOG and Galaxy don't offer any of the features to manage a library I need. If Steam didn't exist, I would abandon PC gaming entirely. No other platform on PC is anywhere near acceptable.

Nvidia isn't going to be holding any bag. They're selling through what they make, and LLMs are just one of many uses for the massively parallel math they're at the forefront of. At most they have to bring pricing down, but they don't own the fab, so if demand did drop (which isn't really all that likely), their costs will go down too. They have contracts in terms of volume and price, but they're not near long term enough to do them more than a blip, and all their investment in developing architecture/tooling has value well outside of LLM nonsense.

In the legal sense that having DRM-free software does not mean that you're legally entitled to use it, sure.

But checking for a license before running is literally the entire definition of what DRM is. They aren't "bypassing" anything. They didn't create technology. They simply refused to allow software that has any type of license check (DRM).

36 fabs is also very probably stupid as hell, assuming you want anything modern.

The actual equipment it takes is pretty seriously limited, to the best of my understanding.

They already took it to the state Supreme Court and got shut down.

Imagining judging someone for a job about communicating with people on their ability to communicate with people effectively.