I make people upset just by using my eyes and brain, as such please be careful to ensure your tears do not get into your electronics, thank you
I air gap my shit
that’s an interesting claim, how do you use online multiplayer games and discord while “air gapped”?
and again, your “tangible benefit” is rendered largely moot by the fact that you can absolutely get around kernel anticheat. All it really does is keep the skids releasing free cheats on UnknownCheats and MPGH out.
“I’m OK with companies using incredibly shitty, intrusive software practices because I don’t think they’ll affect me personally” is such a shit take for so many reasons, to name a few:
giving software kernel access, especially when it does not or should not need kernel access, is a security risk, and does open the door for malicious actors to take advantage of vulnerabilities even if the software is not malicious in and of itself
occasionally, intensively intrusive programs like this do break things unintentionally, which can lead to all sorts of fun issues. StarForce DRM is a good example from years past.
just because you do not have anything on your PC that you consider sensitive, does not mean that applies to everyone.
Kernel level anticheat can be bypassed. It’s usually not cheap/easy, but it can and has been done. Meaning, for all of the above concessions you make, there is no real benefit.
these are just the few I can think of immediately.
And then nobody ever made another emulator for Nintendo products again and this definitely does not foreshadow an endless game of whack-a-mole powered by spite.
Surely not.
I’m Brazil
hi Brazil, I’m Dad!
it’s nice to see I’ve never had an original thought in my life
not by the time it’s done compiling, it’s not
Coletta’s “Idealism”.
honestly, Timeshift + btrfs was a big part of the reason I was willing to try switching to Mint from Windows in February when I read about it (the other big part being Proton and my experience with my Steam Deck), and I’ve been rather happy with it since. I still dual boot for the odd thing, but 90% of the time I’m in Linux and it just works; and on the single occasion I’ve had an update bork something, I just used Timeshift to restore a snapshot, tried updating again, and it worked fine the second time. Took me 10 minutes. I remember the heady days of the early 2010s when I first tried Linux, and that would’ve normally kicked off an entire evening’s worth of troubleshooting. (And, indeed, it was shit like that that pushed me back to Windows whenever I’d try Linux)
I’m really hoping more semi-computer-literate people start taking the plunge, it isn’t nearly so awful an adjustment to make as it was just ten years ago and Microsoft clearly needs the competition to encourage them to make not-shit products. I still wouldn’t give a Linux machine to your grandmother, but your average technically competent nerd who can use Google can actually use Mint nowadays without having to fuck with it too much; as opposed to having to almost become an expert on Linux and get up into its guts to make it work right for you (which, Windows is increasingly requiring itself, if you don’t want Microsoft knowing everything you do and serving you ads in your OS), and Timeshift is a big part of why, IMO. It’s not quite there to “perfectly suited for general use by your average idiot”, plenty of programs that don’t yet play nice with it; but it’s so much closer to that ideal now than it’s ever been before, and it’s still getting better.
I know, wrong community, y’all like to get up into its guts, poke around and tinker; but I and many others would rather work on our computers, as opposed to work on our computers, if you get my meaning.
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I believe OP is either a child, or perhaps trolling.
Read that username and tell me that isn’t an Xbox live gamertag from 2008.
now, what I wonder is: what stops you from bringing out a driveway to within a foot of the road and then just letting people drive over a foot of grass?
I can only see this being stopped by a particularly high curb, and it technically doesn’t connect to the roadway.
Nah, I’m good.
made a PSN account, verifying my email doesn’t work – just never sends an email no matter how many times I tell it to resend, I know the email works and I know it’s not in my spam folder. Can’t verify, can’t link accounts. Guess if Sony doesn’t fix their site or reverse course, I’m done playing in a month + out the money I spent on the game. Sucks, had over 200 hours in it, but I guess every game dies sooner or later.
yet another item on the list of things I blame the French for
“[…] instructed the space agency to work with other parts of the U.S. government to devise a plan by the end of 2026 for setting what it called a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).”
You people just hate acronyms that make sense, don’t you
It’s $100 on Amazon. No idea where you’re getting $3000 from.
if you mean their anti-theft protection offer, that means they’ll cover a bike of up to $3000 value if it gets stolen while locked with it.
This is the lock I use on my e-bike, and it’s even recommended by LockPickingLawyer. Hasn’t been stolen yet.
upvote for interrobang in the wild
the entire reason I switched to Linux – back in January I asked myself “if I have to fight my operating system to make it work right for me anyways, why pay for the privilege?”
like sure updates break things on Linux too occasionally but at least they don’t reinstall spyware I had to spend a day ripping out after the last update.