I think, if they are preserved for windows DRM and anti-cheat free, it should be no problem launching them using wine / proton. In the other hand, a native Linux game will not run as smooth on WSL as a comparison.

I play all my games via steam, was the easiest way to set up proton for me. 😂 now I have my productive windows app in the steam library as well 🤷🏻

Aren’t snapshots in btrfs above root?

Edit: they are in “subvolumes”

Source: ChatGPT

On a Btrfs filesystem, running rm -rf /* will attempt to delete everything in the root directory, which includes all files and directories accessible to your permissions. However, Btrfs snapshots are designed to be resistant to regular file deletion commands. Here’s what happens:

1. Snapshots remain intact: rm -rf /* doesn’t automatically delete snapshots because snapshots are stored in special subvolumes. By default, this command won’t affect subvolumes that are not mounted within the filesystem you’re deleting from.

2. You would need specific commands to delete snapshots: To delete snapshots on Btrfs, you would typically use a command like btrfs subvolume delete <snapshot> for each snapshot individually, as snapshots are managed by the filesystem and not treated as standard directories.

3. The data inside the snapshots is preserved: Even if files in the root filesystem are deleted, any data captured in snapshots remains, as snapshots are essentially read-only copies at a certain point in time.

Important Note: If the snapshots are mounted and accessible in the directory tree where rm -rf /* is run, you could accidentally delete them if the command traverses into the snapshots’ directories. To protect snapshots, administrators often mount them in isolated directories (e.g., /snapshots) or keep them unmounted until explicitly needed.

In summary, unless you run specific deletion commands for Btrfs subvolumes, snapshots should remain unaffected by rm -rf /* due to the unique way Btrfs manages snapshots.

Why would you not just format the stick?

Yes!

If route all data through VPN and drop the unwanted packages in the firewall at home, you achieve this. But apple is a bitch and ignore VPN (and even DNS) for own domains.

Except, apple is bypassing VPN for their own tracking:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/10/12/most-apple-apps-on-ios-16-bypass-vpn-connections

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/yfhmfw/ios_161_allows_certain_apps_to_bypass_vpn/?rdt=60650

Or jellyseerr if you are using jellyfin (jellseerr with plex as well)

Additionally, you can set a push service (like a telegram bot) to send push notifications upon grabbing, downloaded etc. in *seerr

Most card allow you to set that transactions have to be approved either by app or by SMS.

😁i can do just “yay parsec” and install it

😁 I still never had an app that I wanted requiring it, but I’m very happy having it as quick temporary solution if I ever stumble over an app that does not run on Arch yet (In such cases I would try to fix the AUR package 😇)

Ah, yea, that is one of the reasons I don’t like APT… 😂

😯why would I force it?

BTW, I do not like APT very much

I just do not delete system files 🌚 jk

I run a winServer, but only to test if our device we develop works with LDAP(S) hosted on winServer->ActiveDirectory/entraID, as well as WinServer->RADIUS->eap-tls

I just use snapback on btrfs with endeavourOS 🤔 works just as well, I recon, or what is the difference?

For me it is way less pain to set up and work using linux than…, …that…

Many think streaming services went more expensive because of piracy ( less people paying for same content = content price needs to be higher, where I believe it is other way around (higher price for less content = more pirates).

The market of distribution of films and series is just fucked. The fight with competitors using exclusive content leads to worst way of distribution since company with exclusive content has monopoly of that content. Streaming services should not be the one owning the content but should be in competition with other distributors offering the same content.

I think the politics have forgotten that we need at least social capitalism if we not want to create cyberpunk dystopia.

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Big AI companies already have that data used, and copyright is mostly a concern for the openSource models.