I've never used the Steam for browsing for games to buy. I've only bought stuff there after finding the games some place else (reviews, word-of-mouth). Using it for that has been a terrible experience since the day they opened the floodgates, since there's just too many damn games out there, even ignoring the slop (even without AI, there's still the Unity asset flip to flood the store).

Steam can't not have a store front, but it wouldn't matter to me if they removed 95% of it and just reduced it to a search bar with and a list with some basic results to know I'm actually buying the right game (think $Name, $Dev, $Date-of-release, $Probably-some-other-values-to-prevent-obvious-copycats). I'd use it in functionally the same way as I do know, and I wouldn't by any less because of it.

I don't want to say you're holding it wrong, but I question your tactics if your goal is to find new games you want to play.

There's a secret third political option, but it's usually frowned upon.

Labor organizing?

That's pretty normal. I think bro is pointing at either a general strike or regicide, both of which are highly frowned upon.

Reduce != disable.

I hate paper, but it's probably still worth it for being able to easily convert to a PDF. It's not that hard to do if your website isn't a hacked together mess to begin with.

Absolutely the fuck not.

Saying HN is leftist is an insult to anyone with actual leftist beliefs.

Getting CRTs from yard sales is getting surprisingly hard if you're in the right (or wrong) part of the world. 1080p flat panels have been in common use for over 15 years by now. It shouldn't surprise you to see some for dirt cheap at yard sales.

The Sony KV-32FS120, a high-end set in 2004, had an MSRP of 600 USD.[1] (remember, HD hadn't really happened yet, so anything with that feature wasn't a normal consumer item until at least 2005 (unles you were in Japan)) 1080i basically didn't exist in 1997, unless you lived in Japan, where it had barely got of the ground. The modern day comparison is a 100 inch 8K OLED. Your median is so far off base I have a hard time we live in the same world.

[2] https://crtdatabase.com/crts/sony/sony-kv-32fs120

Did anyone think paper straws were significant? I've only ever heard people complain about or heard it talked about as what politicians/whoever could push through without major complaints, rather than anything that'd actually do anything.

Heck, the only thing it's probably effective at is tiring the general population with non-solutions that reduce their quality of life. People know it doesn't do anything, and yet they have to engage with it.

It really does seem like the kind of thing the energy companies would push through in order to spike public opinion of the anti-petroleum movement.

To me, plastic straws are clearly distinct from climate change (i.e. global warming). But perhaps others don't make the same distinction.

Going by the article, Asus clearly don't. Given the stories floating around about the others, I doubt they have it too, except maybe Lenovo on Thinkpads and the like, although they too aren't immune from problems that really should be caught in QC.