Lina Khan actually takes action against companies unlike many of her predecessors.

You mean the TSMC.

As someone with few USBs available, Ventoy takes me 2 minutes to flash, several minutes to copy a set of ISOs, and then any time I need it, it takes 0 minutes to have a working USB with some arbitrary ISO. Sure, it's not up to date, but I don't need it to be if I need to recover an install or use some random tool.

Defcon is a useful resource for networking and learning. It being run by and for good guys doesn't mean bad guys don't find the event useful. The vague risk of "getting caught" is probably worth taking, regardless of whether that risk is tangible, especially if they follow proper security practices.

You (probably) wouldn't see this page unless you were on Windows

Just because it's losing market share doesn't mean it's not a monopoly, let alone an illegal one.

It's probably the latter.

"Delivering shareholder value" has destroyed numerous companies, and I doubt it'll stop soon.

It's simply an institution meant to interpret laws and their legality. All of that goes out the window when the people in said institution are politically charged, corrupt, or make bad arguments.

This is a serious threat to our democracy.

Edit: This is extremely dangerous to our democracy*

As an American, it's really sad to see the EU fall into this trap.

1/6th of a MAGAbyte is an insurrection

The vast majority of these "timeless" games seem to come from smaller devs. Minecraft started out indie before being bought out, Terraria is still indie, NMS is a small team etc. They work on those games because they want to, and it makes them enough money to stay satisfied. Games from publicly traded companies are held at gunpoint by their shareholders, so if they don't keep the money machine printing and they don't make it print faster and faster, they will face consequences.