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Steam features never fail to amaze me (programming.dev)
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[–] Dfirebug@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

Being someone with a bad internet, this is actually quite a useful feature. It saves me from either having to set up an smb/ftp share on a computer or backing up a game to a USB drive to restore it on the other computer if I don't want to wait 10 hours for any modern game to download.