Yeah but it’s meant to be bread and circuses to distract from government. In this case, it’s bread and circuses, from the very top down.

Yes. But this is precisely the reason I won’t play games that need kernel level anti-cheat. I barely trust game devs to run usermode code on my machine. I sure don’t want to let them near kernel mode.

I think the real answer is going to be an evolving server side anti-cheat. If you do it client side, they will always find a way round it.

Here is the thing. They cite users running kernel level cheats, and the need to detect them. Well, if they allow user mode anti-cheat to function under linux I see two eventualities that will likely force them to change their mind.

1: Cheats find a way to spoof running under wine/linux while in windows and continue to use only the user mode cheat while running their windows kernel cheats. 2: They develop kernel mode cheats for Linux and move cheating to Linux.

Either of these could end up either forcing them to either stop linux clients entirely, or somehow segregate them.

One thing I’ve seen with serious cheating communities… They will go a long way, a long long way just to cheat. Almost as far as spending time to get good at the game. Almost, but not quite.

I hope it doesn’t go this way. I don’t play games with kernel anti-cheat as a matter of principle. But it would be annoying if it happened to a game I already played.

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This is my assumption too. It’s disabled for me. I have no plans to change that.

Dave Williams, successfully sued for unjust termination and was returned to the service in 2006. Williams was again fired for brutality in 2009, and again reinstated.

America, we need to talk.

I was going to say. The fediverse isn’t an echo chamber. It’s a series of echo chambers, some of which even talk to eachother. :P

Aha, I see. So you mean there should be a community for anonymous posts. I think it’s not inherently supported with ActivityPub. But I guess someone could create a bot that all posts went through. However for very obvious reasons the community would need to be moderated VERY efficiently.

You mean like: [email protected] ?

Or is it too early and a joke went over my head?

I think baseline Linux is much less CPU and memory intensive (that is before you start running your own user stuff).

If I just leave normal apps running in the background I rarely hear my fans spin up on Linux. But on Windows, I can just boot it, login and then randomly the fans spin up and CPU usage in double digits. Why?

I would agree probably if we ran teams on Linux it would be a resource hog. But you know for work I setup MS SQL server on Linux, and you know even though so far as I can tell they’re doing more work on Linux to run it there, it seems to run faster and take less resources on Linux. That is subjective though, since I cannot tell if the usage level on the Linux SQL is comparable to the windows one. But from my limited uses it’s definitely lower.

If you start with the OS eating your memory and cycles, there’s less for the bloatware you have on a corporate machine to burn.

I foresee two possibilities.

1: Coming face to face with their own mistake might put them into shock and they would simply pass out. 2: The realization could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the spacetime continuum and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that’s a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.

You know, I hate using my work laptop. It’s so sluggish and horrible to use with Windows on. And it’s always the Microsoft software eating up the memory. Teams and edge being the worse offenders.

For server use Linux has been a better option for decades. But, windows was still pretty decent for desktop use. But Windows 10 started a bad trend and Windows 11 has made it far worse. I don’t miss it. This system is dual boot, and I’ve not booted into windows on it, since November.

When you’re alone, and life is making you lonely you can always go… Downtown Abbey!

Wireguard vpn into my home router. Works on android so fire sticks etc can run the client.

It’s in the app list for me. I set it to disabled.

Phone is Samsung s24 ultra.

Gemini is an app, I disabled that. I also shut off the key press and there’s some other places you can turn off some of the automatic AI features, and also there’s a setting to disable the “online” AI in general.

But that’s why in another comment I said, I am still not sure I turned it all off (or even if it is possible to).

Doesn’t the motorola phone have a settings screen for defining what the button does? For Samsung they like to re-purpose the power button.

First of all, it brought up bixby. I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled bixby.

Then, with the new update they re-assigned the power button to gemini. So, I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled gemini too.

However, the problem these days is that I’m never completely sure I’ve turned off all of the AI nonsense on my phone.

Pretty sure I disabled Gemini as one of the first things I did when I got my phone. But, yes when I read that, to me it did seem like a serious overreach for something that was going to be “on by default” for most users.

Yeah. The suggestion I saw was that instead of retracting the gear they mistakenly retracted the flaps.

Now in the video the wings do look quite flat. But yes, it would be hard to say for sure in a video of that quality at that distance.

The descent looks (to my untrained flight sim eyes) to be controlled albeit without power.

At 400ft agl they had very little options most likely. Not even much choice in what they hit.

Very sad all round.