It wont win over some mythical “everyday home computer user” because they dont exist anymore.

I don’t even know what you’re talking about. The vast majority of people are interacting with a workstation on a daily basis. The only mythical users are the ones that exclusively use phones and tablets.

For Linux to truly “snowball,” it needs a serious, fully seemless office replacement

No one uses Office applications on their local machines anymore. Everything is done in the browser.

Matter of fact, a large majority of all work is done in the browser. Computers have, for a long time, been glorified Facebook machines. Look at how many people use Chrome OS that doesn’t even support any local software at all…

No one uses phones or tablets for actual work. They’re just media consumption and mobile interface devices. When people need to get shit done they sit down with a keyboard and mouse. That’s why they call them workstations.

Thanks

tl;Dr? Why do I have to load 12 pages to read this?

at least not very often

The people you’ve seen are likely enthusiasts. A small minority of the millions of users. The vast majority probably never leaves game mode.

does that mean we’ll need to start worrying about viruses on Linux now?

1. Linux is still a very small marketshare on workstations.
2. Pretty much every server runs Linux and is probably much more likely to be attacked than a workstation.
3. Lots of very profitable companies that run these servers need high security, so they will invest as much as is strictly necessary.
4. Everything is open source and auditable by anyone.

The stats come from webpages, something a Steam Deck is unlikely to ever see, or at least not very often, so I would say it has almost nothing to do with Steam Deck, other than maybe exposing more people to Linux.

Each individual level of the print is called the print line

It’s called a layer.

“So on the firearm, I’m seeing from the trigger guard—maybe print line 200—and the top of the magazine well—print line 400—the marks are staying consistent,” Garrison said.

…I don’t even understand what that’s supposed to mean? “The marks are staying consistent”? What marks? Consistent with what?

Even if they were able to match a print to a nozzle (which they won’t be because it’s a wear item that’s constantly changing), nozzles are cheap and replaced often. You replace them in 2 minutes.

However, none of this will stop DAs from trying to use this shit as evidence, just like all the other junk science they pay people to lie about.

…seeds?

Gov can’t really do anything about it. Bitcoin was designed to be gov agnostic. They can tell you it’s illegal but there’s also really no way for them to know (if you’re not dumb).

Hell there are entire unregulated black markets on the dark web.

Also with the orangutan in chief being something of a crypto grifter himself, it’s not likely to be regulated at all.

If they don’t want it to, it won’t.

Then you’re just going to be at the mercy of the people that do run these things

I wasn’t asking for a way around them, I’m asking why they exist and suggesting we collectively move on from them.

I realize maybe my response was taken as disagreement

I didn’t take it as a disgreement, I took it as a dismissal. Rather than discussing why it’s necessary or whether it should be removed, you suggest that I create my own alternative.

As a product owner I’d want a way to contact

You can. We’ve already been over this. Send them a message on the platform.

or validate a user

How is an email address validation? I can spin one up in 3 seconds.

Self service password reset

You’re just creating a security vulnerability.

I’m not trying to defend email, just curious what mechanism could take its place.

Again, I already explained this.

Some platforms only require a username and a passkey (not even a password). That is ideal, in my opinion.

Email is also used to track user activity across the web, and while you know whether or not you will be tracking, collecting, and selling my activity, I don’t. Removing email eliminates that concern.

Some sort of cryptographic signature might work

That’s called a Passkey.

though I would have to think carefully about no separate communication/ confirmation channel

Again I ask, why? What is this fixation on multiple communication methods? Maybe as the user I don’t want you to have other ways of contacting me?

If you really need it there are hundreds of alternatives.

It’s all of the above at once. It’s hard to think of another identifier that hits them all.

I already gave you one. The username.

It’s not a communication method outside of the platform it’s on.

Why is that necessary?

It looks like your complaint is as a user, not the service owner?

My complaint, as someone who hosts a variety of services, is that setting up an email server is ridiculously complicated, costs money, and is completely unnecessary.

Recently Ghost updated their software to add 2FA for email. Not TOTP or Passkeys, or anything actually secure, those are still unavailable. After updating I was completely locked out of my own account because it was trying to verify my login using a system that doesn’t exist on my install. It was a super annoying and completely unnecessary problem I had to deal with.

I wouldn’t run a project like that, but feel free to start one up.

Great, I’ll just go ahead and fork every open source project in existence on my own to remove this feature using the software engineering degree and the time I don’t have.

It’s a communication tool

So is BlueSky

It’s a unique identity

As is 4093rnbgv3q09vn032. Everyone already needs a unique identity. It’s called a username.

You can have more than one

More than one what? Email? How about zero?

It’s platform agnostic

There are a thousand platform-agnostic communication methods.

It’s anonymous

Email? LOL absolutely not.

It’s transferable

It’s only transferable if you use your own domain, which the vast majority are not doing.

What would you propose instead?

That depends on the purpose. You can receive messages and notifications right in the app, so for the purposes of communication I would propose absolutely nothing.

Why the fuck are so many software projects dependent on email? Why do we need this!? It’s infuriating.

The Patriot Act was sunset years ago, and even before that it had nothing to do with requiring companies to collect information.

There is no source or receiving end. Syncthing is omnidirectional synchronization. Versioning is applied across all syncs.

Yes, you can download videos.

Shows?

I mean a console is just a PC running a locked OS.

So maybe “XBOX OS” is locked down, or maybe they’re just trying to advertise it as a user friendly controller-first experience.