You are part of the problem. You chose to profit by building their tools. Now they enslave you.
You still have valuable experience that this world needs. You could choose to work on open source software, and in building an ecosystem outside of the technofascism you did mercenary work for.
Signed, an open source developer (that also gets paid a pretty penny and is still happy with their day to day work, surrounded by like-minded peers).
incredible how you are so dismissive, but actually is you that has no idea. Steam in Linux runs Proton, Proton runs pressure-vessel as I said in my first message, which uses its own container runtime, akin to other Linux container runtimes, using cgroups etc, which provides the security sandboxing…
Steam already runs games in a form of container (pressure vessel) in Linux, it’s quite secure.
Also, in this day an age, anybody that is conscious or security plays games in a dedicated machine…
Edit: for those downvoting me and saying that Steam games in Linux are not containenarized and more secure, go read https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/tree/main/pressure-vessel which is the basis of Proton and sandboxed, since like 10 years…
upvote for uplink reference.
don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.
True about those without video outputs. But in Linux, game specific patches are in Mesa and not in the graphics drivers for example.
OP, by their own words, is set up for life. They could retire now if they wanted to.
I am not, but at least I am not a class traitor.
Since uni decades ago, people have had contempt for devs joining the ranks of Facebook and Google. Nowadays is the grifters that work in AI startups. And previously was the grift of cryptocoins. None of them were nicely seen in any of my circles, OSS, uni folks, conferences. I have old uni friends that ended up working for Microsoft via acquisition, and they ended up depressed and with serious health problems from the stress.
You take ownership of something, and you break it? You own the pieces. Adult accountability, which seems to be missing in the USA.
If the OP is feeling empty and sad, by their own words, then, what better approach than to work on something that undos the damage he, by their own words, has inflicted upon the world
I mean, for the love of god. Let’s read the article of the thread we are…