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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

	/**
	* 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 {

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	set -e

	sudo -v

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
	sudo apt-get autoremove -y