Don’t hold your breath, they took over a year to fix the disappearing cursor issue on some distributions of Win11 in 2024-2025, the cause was rooted in the interaction between the brand new desktop window manager and the legacy cursor rendering path that hadn’t been updated since Vista, when moving the mouse between an application rendered with modern XAML components and a legacy system window, the cursor would sometimes become fully transparent, it was still there but invisible to the user until system reboot, turns out that building fluid fancy modern UI elements on top of a legacy Win32 framework does that sometimes.

It reminds me of a case in my hometown where a second thief stole a stolen vehicle from the initial thief, so the latter went to the police to report it, which, of course, led to nothing but his arrest.

The unconstrained expansion of credit following the end of Bretton Woods system could only lead to the long term devaluation of the currency, something that’s theorically infinite is also inherently entropic.

Build a product -> make it free or very affordable -> create dependency -> collect user data to improve product resulting in more dependency -> create a near market monopoly if possible -> make it paid only or make the free version a lot worse so users have to pay -> cross fingers that no alternative emerges or just buy it and shut it down if you can.

Always the same pattern.

That’d be 691077 regular sized hamburgers laid next to each other in a rigid grid pattern, 797502 if laid in a hexagonal pattern, 891720 if squished.

Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it’s always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.

The simple fact of using the word “citizens” instead of people sounds awfully dystopian to me.

The strategy is always to gain a monopoly or near monopoly on a market before pushing for the enshittification of the product to reduce costs and maximize profits, once customers have become dependent on said product, then pray that most choose the path of least resistance which is staying and dealing with the worse and more expensive version of what they’re used to rather than retraining or restarting from zero elsewhere.

Capitalism 101.

Holy username.

What if Jesus has access to your internet browsing history even the stuff you deleted or did in incognito mode?

Obviously, if the goal had been to present it as anything other than AI, the watermark wouldn’t be there.

Wait, isn’t this the same guy who, two years after this post, disowned one of his own children because they came out as transgender?

Unfortunately, most people want a frictionless experience, they want to click the “Sign in with Google” button and never think about it again, the moment you have to register manually, even with an email and password, fetch a client from GitHub/GitLab, or worse create a wallet and understand cryptographic keys, 90+% of the population gives up.

It doesn’t mean people are stupid, humans just evolved to pick the path of least resistance when it came to foraging for food, same principle applies to modern life.

Yeah, since Valve is not public the odds of the next head being an outside hire or some loud tech exec are extremely low.

GabeN is most likely to pick someone who’s been around with the company since the early days, like Erik Johnson or Scott Lynch.

If he wants it to stay in the family, his own son Gray could take over, he’s also a game dev.

Gabe has often expressed distrust of publicly traded markets, a plausible outcome is that his ownership gets converted into an employee-owned trust or a collective buyback, this would effectively permanently lock Valve into its current profile, distributing profils back into salaries and bonuses for the staff.

The only one that lets me keep in my library, download and install at any time games that were delisted 10 or 15 years ago by their publishers.

For that reason alone, they deserve my money over any other storefront.