Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
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In game mode if you navigate to library then to non-steam, if your list is empty it will prompt you to install Chrome. Maybe it was somewhere else, but yes, the prompt exists regardless.
Edit: Picure I got from the Interner to illustrate my comment:
Edit 2: More proof that it never happened and either I'm imagining things or making it up:
Never had any prompt for google services in 2+ years of owning a sd, i don't know why you're so affirmative about something you don't actually seem to be sure about
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he brought it on himself by accidentally naziing several times, even while he ostensibly apologized after he got called out for it.
he has had a hand in normalizing this shit we're in today and people are right to be angry at him. especially since his alleged rehabilitation has been as quiet as his nazi winks and nods were loud.
i do believe in rehabilitation, but i think for someone his size you can't just do it quietly. you have to be against it and try to right your wrongs. that's what hunter avallone did for example, and he's significantly smaller than pewdiepie.
pewdiepie's damage was much more consequential and he has a responsibility to do more than not casually naziing anymore.
What did this "quiet rehabilitation" even entail? Did he actually take responsibility for the dogwhistles?
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On the Steam Deck there is Google too, there is the sponsored Chrome install and cloud saves uses Google servers
Worse. Steam is basically built on top of CEF, which is not much better than Electron.
It's amazing how deep Chromium (and web tech in general) got into everything. Microsoft - which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was - went from using Chromium for Edge to using it basically everywhere. Latest observation is how you open Copilot app, chat a little and see how it eats 4 GB of RAM and lags like hell, on a higher end business laptop.
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"Degoogle!"
~ Someone on YouTube, a platform owned by Google
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What did this "quiet rehabilitation" even entail? Did he actually take responsibility for the dogwhistles?
don't even know honestly; just responding to people's claims that he's changed.
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then people shouldn't bitch about it when they get backlash
The bitching is encouraged by algorithms. Idk if you've seen the youtube drama bullshit scene but its all bitching all the time. The only way to stop it is to leave platforms utilizing conflict algorithms and work on fostering communities that don't celebrity worship.
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The bitching is encouraged by algorithms. Idk if you've seen the youtube drama bullshit scene but its all bitching all the time. The only way to stop it is to leave platforms utilizing conflict algorithms and work on fostering communities that don't celebrity worship.
sorry I meant bitching in the comments that he's still being perceived as a nazi.
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dichotomous thinking is the pretentiously fun term
I like saying binary. A middle ground pretentiousness-wise.
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Did they install chrome in desktop mode and Steam picked it up and asked if they wanted a shortcut to it? From what I can tell you get Firefox by default in desktop mode?
I got this same prompt the first time I used my Steam Deck and I don't use Chrome at all, so no.
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Any idea of this guy made any significant impact when he installed Linux recently?
I also started using Bazzite recently, but not because of him. But this new video is giving me ideas on what other things I can do. The Linux one popped up in my suggested videos too, and I thought there was good starter information there too. I don't really know much about him otherwise.
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In game mode if you navigate to library then to non-steam, if your list is empty it will prompt you to install Chrome. Maybe it was somewhere else, but yes, the prompt exists regardless.
Edit: Picure I got from the Interner to illustrate my comment:
Edit 2: More proof that it never happened and either I'm imagining things or making it up:
Oh no a prompt
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Did they install chrome in desktop mode and Steam picked it up and asked if they wanted a shortcut to it? From what I can tell you get Firefox by default in desktop mode?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Nope... It's literally just a placeholder to allow people in game mode to install chrome and access the Internet without having to switch to desktop mode.
Until they make a better way to add non-Steam shortcuts in game mode.
It literally explains it in the prompt.
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some people in here are apparently perfect and don't believe others can grow and learn from their mistakes. what a childish self-centered perspective.
Yeah no... It's very easy to not behave like a fucking Nazi.
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Are there other incurable states of mind that would require people to be shunned forever?
Nope, just fascism.
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You're going to equate a word with being a Nazi and rape? Using a racial slur is literally a small subset of being a Nazi.
If you think calling people Jews was the big issue with the Nazis, well...
Didn't the dude literally dress up like a Nazi as a joke? Or am I misremembering.
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Worse. Steam is basically built on top of CEF, which is not much better than Electron.
It's amazing how deep Chromium (and web tech in general) got into everything. Microsoft - which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was - went from using Chromium for Edge to using it basically everywhere. Latest observation is how you open Copilot app, chat a little and see how it eats 4 GB of RAM and lags like hell, on a higher end business laptop.
which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was
I don't think I'm alone in saying "light" and "well-optimized" are not words that fit the Windows 8.1 experience.
Mediocre in almost all aspects is the best descriptor for 8.1 and honestly that's pretty generous given how bad 8.0 was
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Just to be clear: if someone has actively shown growth then I am all for them moving past shit (obviously the amount of growth required depends on the level of shitty before but). James Gunn being kind of the poster child for that where he was an edgelord dipshit when he was younger. But every time that comes up, almost everyone around him makes it clear that he has grown significantly and he owns up to it every time.
Like... look at idubbz. I, and many others, aren't sure if we can ever actually "forgive" him considering how much abuse we received because of people directly quoting his hate. But he also (at least briefly. Not sure what he has done since) made it a big point of actually APOLOGIZING. And... getting a lot of shit and hatred from other youtubers who refuse to apologize for their shittiness for whatever reason (shoutout to moistcritical for breaking his apolitical stance to aggressively insist Ian didn't need to apologize for slurs and bigotry...).
Contrast that with "he said the N word a lot a few years back but hasn't done it recently" with no indication beyond that.
Idubbbz is a perfect example of how to apologize and actually repent. He's been outspoken about how destructive his old behavior was, and has lost a big chunk of his viewer base over it.
From what I've seen, PewDiePie has done nothing close to that.
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Nope... It's literally just a placeholder to allow people in game mode to install chrome and access the Internet without having to switch to desktop mode.
Until they make a better way to add non-Steam shortcuts in game mode.
It literally explains it in the prompt.
Then that's like a totally avoidable thing. There is no Google Chrome there unless you want it to have it
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Never had any prompt for google services in 2+ years of owning a sd, i don't know why you're so affirmative about something you don't actually seem to be sure about
Because I also got this prompt the first time I used my Steam Deck, but I wasn't sure where I got it.
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Then that's like a totally avoidable thing. There is no Google Chrome there unless you want it to have it
Yes, exactly.
