"AWS Snowball" belongs to the second half of the sentence, not the first.
Valve exists in that weird superposition where I'm supposed to dislike them for their monopolistic power, shitty client, DRM, and just general fuck capitalism, but at the same time, they're the only thing standing between us and the end of PC gaming as we know it because they actually seem to give a gram of shit about us.
Like, how's an anti-corp dude supposed to feel, man?
Microsoft makes Recall feature off-by-default after security and privacy backlash
Windows Hello authentication, additional encryption being added to protect data.