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Kaldaien / valve_delete.md
Created July 8, 2025 06:25
Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

Some may know me from over a decade worth of modding broken, under-performing or otherwise inconvenient aspects of PC ports. Dedicated users of Special K also know that I have spent as much time battling problems caused by Steam as I have defects in the games themselves.

My experience with PC gaming goes back a further two decades, to the days of shareware, dialing into a BBS to get game patches / user generated content and tedious DRM fetch-quests involving physical game manuals. I was irritated when Half-Life 2 shipped on PC and required a dedicated piece of software to satisfy DRM and patch the game, but at the time these were minor inconveniences. Valve tried to quell concerns of software preservation with the first of a long series of lies wherein they claimed to have a contingency plan for the DRM scheme reaching end-of-life.

   Steam's DRM scheme has reached end-of-life multiple times without the promised parachute.

In 2002, the cl

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aik0aaac / IActivitiesRequest.ts
Last active April 17, 2025 16:37
Youtube Data API v3のRequest/Response内容。(TypeScript-Interface)
/**
* Youtube Data API > `activities`のリクエスト。
* 公式Docs: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/activities/list?hl=ja
*
* 取得対象のチャンネルの選び方は大きく分けてつ:
* - チャンネルIDを指定する方法(`channelId`)
* - 認証ユーザーのHOMEページのアクティビティのみにする(`home`=`true`)
* - 認証ユーザーが所有するチャンネルのみにする(`mine`=`true`)
*/
export interface IActivitiesRequest {
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mattisz / xrdp-intel-setup.sh
Last active March 21, 2025 15:01 — forked from Nexarian/xrdp-intel-setup.sh
Setup for Intel acceleration and XRDP
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
sudo -v
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get autoremove -y