Is this a real product?

Because they pumped out ads for it and paid astroturfers to promote it like crazy. It’s not really that surprising. There are laws against deceptive advertising but they rarely get enforced, and when they do, it’s usually a slap on the wrist. Which is how Brave can lie about browser privacy, get popular, and never get called out for lying in any meaningful way.

I think a lot of pro-Brave people are astroturfers, or heavily influenced by astroturfers. They are definitely not a first choice by any privacy advocate worth their salt.

This really goes against the whole purpose of buying a Steam Deck considering on Windows you will have a poorer user experience due to the lack of Gamescope and Windows’ very poor non touch friendly UI. Maybe there’s somethings that can make it better but it won’t ever be as good as just using Steam OS or any Linux distro set up to use Gamescope and proton.

Honestly I kind of wish Valve didn’t release the drivers. Make people actually work to get that abomination working if that’s what they really want.

If they want it badly enough they should have to write the drivers themselves.

They didn’t show their work citing misuse as the reason, which leads me to believe it’s fearmongering and that it isn’t going to work so well for the people who are actually trying (AKA have good OPSEC).

This is one of those examples of “It’s not possible to be private online so don’t bother trying” type propaganda posts.

The ones doing the identifying will argue that they are right until they are blue in the face because that’s how we do things now. By lying harder until the ones you’re trying to convince believe you or give up because it’s not worth it to keep arguing. I’ve been accused of being other people or using AI to write, and those people argued or harassed me until I blocked them. I can probably expect more of this going forward.

They still don’t seem anywhere near as rugged as the tanks that were the IBM thinkpads and Early Lenovo Thinkpads. Which is a shame. The OG thinkpads were some of the best built laptops there were. Still better than some of the other cheap crap that passes for a laptop these days, but still a shell of its former glory.

Make sure to be clear that fake IDs are things you can make and use to bypass this. If using fake names on the internet isn’t unethical to you all why are Fake IDs as a subject avoided like the plague?