This is the biggest problem with Valve at the moment. They’re awesome, but only because of the current leadership. Once these guys retire or die, it’s very likely Valve will enshittify like every other business.

Valve needs to be hit by regulators at some point. They just have too much market power.

Idk, but not anything that uses delta compression like git does.

Game developers use Perforce and Plastic scm which is (supposedly) optimized for images and other binary assets. I’ve never used them, but I’m sure a less-overkill and open source alternative exists somewhere.

Don’t use git for images (or most other binary data)

That yacht will trickle down to the writers, actors, and crew members.

vim ~/.ssh/config

Here’s my not-a-lawyer opinion:

If you refuse to pay rent, you are breaching a contract that you signed, which is not considered criminal (ever, afaik).

Ordering food at a restaurant probably doesn’t count as a contract, so it’s just regular theft (which is criminal).