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Comment by gcanyon | Hacker News Reader

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   1. Other apps *ask* if they can update; Steam just does it.
   2. Can you justify why Steam should *ever* log me out?
   3. re: password managers -- so your answer to my complaint that I have to run/use a second program just to run the one I want... is to install a third app to make the second one less problematic? And: I *have* a password manager: the one built-in to the OS.

I have over 100 applications installed; exactly one of them requires another program to gatekeep it. And I understand I'm in the minority here -- I did start with, "Am I the only one..."

My answer to your complaint of "I don't remember my password" is that you should be using a password manager. If you are using one and forgot it anyway, this is clearly not the fault of steam. The other 2 are easily googleable/chatgptable, so I'll leave that to you.

I'm saying that I use the built-in password manager in MacOS. I just checked, and it has the password, but Steam apparently isn't capable of auto-filling. So I looked it up, entered it, and then steam decided that wasn't enough and I had to confirm by email, because new computer. This isn't national security, it's a $20 video game that is twenty years old, that you used to be able to play for free through flash in a web browser.

Steam sucks.

> This isn't national security, it's a $20 video game that is twenty years old, that you used to be able to play for free through flash in a web browser.

You can still do that.

https://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n.html

https://www.kongregate.com/games/MetanetSoftware/n

Nice, thanks!

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