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Valve Steam Deck 5 years ago

Wrong, you can install whatever OS you want, the developers even said so. You have a lot of freedom.

Amazon Sidewalk 5 years ago

You can buy a simple office keyboard for $25, but there is a market for custom mechanical keyboards 10x as expensive.

Or 100x even

I guess because RTS games are soft-realtime systems and need precise control of everything. RTS multiplayer logic is some of the most complex I've ever seen, these games are basically distributed computing frameworks.

Rufus is so good. If you have your ISO downloaded and your media plugged in, it takes 6 clicks and 10 seconds to start writing to the bootable device. So easy and simple, and it works with everything.

Tape is also incredibly slow and difficult to scale. Also, the equipment needed to operate a cluster of tape archivers costs a lot, while they are using their own designs dor servers, with coXmmodity hardware in them.

You can read on their blog. They use custom software with Reed-Solomon* erasure coding, similar to RAID but distributed between different disks, servers and racks. Their EC library is on Github (Java). The most enjoyable posts are the ones describing how they built their pods and architecture.