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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • For better or worse, the landscape has shifted since then. I can’t imagine people love Steam for being Steam, but rather for being the most consumer-friendly platform on PC.

    Refunds? No questions asked if it’s within 2 weeks and 2 hours of playtime.

    User reviews and ratings? Yes, and even comments on those reviews.

    Community content? Steam discussions, guides, art, etc. Even mods with the workshop.

    Bribes development studios for exclusivity deals? Nope! Devs can release games wherever the fuck they want.

    Platform support? PC. Not just Windows, but going out of their way to make Linux a first class citizen. They even support Crapple despite its miniscule market share among PC gamers.




  • If somebody goes and causes an outage, I would expect nothing less than a tech walking around and trying to triangulate the offending router.

    But in OP’s case, it’s an external ISP that provides internet services to the dorm. As long as nobody gives them a reason to start looking, I don’t expect a for-profit ISP to be sending out a contractor proactively beyond the first week of move-ins. That costs them money, and likely a lot more money than they would recover by catching the handful of people trying to dogde the per-device upcharge.




  • You shall not use or attempt to use a device or software (such as NAT, Address Masquerading, Proxying, or the connection of an additional wireless router) that would allow you to connect more than the number of devices set out in the Service Information to the Network.

    One of the ways they detect this is by checking the TTL of the packets coming from the “one” device is less than expected. If your router is using OpenWrt, you can configure an iptables rule to reset the TTL of outgoing packets to the default.