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Cake day: February 4th, 2024

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  • While neither EA nor Steam ever said anything about support for Linux or the Steam Deck (the store page stated unsupported), it’s still a dick move inserting kernel level antichrist anticheat MONTHS after release, altering the deal and making the product a security and privacy nightmare!

    Also a really bad business decision to scare future buyers away, with Linux gaming gaining traction thanks to Steam Deck and the likes.

    I personally won’t buy anything from EA going forward and stick to my statement from the games Steam forum:

    Another reason to just wait before buying a game, especially from large corpo publishers like EA!
    Releasing unfinished, buggy games for prices north of 60 bucks AND “altering the deal” MONTHS later, rendering the product either unplayable or making it a security and privacy nightmare, is a big, BIG pile of BS!

    Don’t let the FOMO get you, learn from this.
    Make your voices heard and place an appropriate review!

    And by all means: try to get a refund!

    …or this WILL happen again!


  • With a factory reset the phones encryption keys will be destroyed and nothing should be retrievable from that device. Even if the data isn’t overwritten, without the encryption key no one could read it.

    At least that’s my understanding of the modern safety- and encryption features of recent phone models/mobile OS’s.

    The worst part: Apple’s iCloud is end-to-end encrypted and even Apple can’t see the users files, at least that is what they say.

    If what the dude on Reddit states is true, then this is bad, really really bad! 😮









  • These companies have hired psychologists to tell them how to best extract money from your wallet by probing your brain in just the right way.

    Those are the real criminals! With all the good they could have done in today’s society, choosing to use their knowledge and training to manipulate people against their best interest is just the worst!








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