Hi I’m Tim.
I’m AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.
Just go CachyOS if you can’t be bothered with Arch proper. Running an insecure container layer that brings another whole distro so you can run an app is weird when flatpaks exist for this purpose, and are much better suited for this. Seems like you’re creating a “problem” that doesn’t exist and then coming up with the most complicated way to solve this made up “problem”.
Yeah, but that is a task made more difficult by my reluctance to be social.
I will perseverate on a topic going back to it because I need to info dump, but most people just don’t care about things to the same level of detail. =(
I meant changing to Linux doesn’t make sense for you if the games you play have 0% compatibility on Linux. I was agreeing with you! I guess I could have worded that better, sorry about that.
The big issue is I think a large percentage of that group of gamers would love to drop the overhead of Windows but devs are making games designed around Windows lock-in because that is where the user base is. It’s like a circular scenario where unless one of them is willing to break the circle it’s going to continue for the foreseeable future.
I think the point is that they outnumber us by many billions, but humans see themselves as ruling the earth because of our size.
I agree that for you it doesn’t make sense, but outside of the “competitive” FPS genre compatibility covers most everything else, minus things with crazy kernel level DRM rootkits. But you really shouldn’t be playing those on Windows either IMHO. And if more people didn’t support them on Windows devs might be forced to use compatible anti-cheat that would benefit gamers on all platforms.
I’m also a casual gamer that will just move onto something else in my backlog if a dev breaks proton compatibility.
Yeah, follow through is not always the same dopamine but that the idea/planning was for sure. I have a continuous list of things that I think of, and research the hell out of, then move onto the next oh shiny! …
If they were a “computer person” enough to know how, or willing to let the Geek Squad over charge them for something as simple as installing more RAM or HD upgrade. But yes, it’s not like a TPM that would require a motherboard swap, which isn’t a thing for laptops outside of Framework (and then only just recently).
Some people did as they didn’t meet that min specs, but it wasn’t for something silly like the TPM requirement. Locking 11 behind a non-serviceable upgrade is artificially creating e-waste, and they should be forced to pay for it all to be properly recycled, but capitalism cares more about making the graph go up than becoming the earth from Wall-E
The same was said when Microsoft sunset XP and “forced” everyone to use Windows 10 - the last Windows™.
Yeah, why use renewable energy when you can use a dirty finite resource that will almost certainly rise in price over their time horizon.
And outside the US even, and had tens-to-hundreds of thousands of customers over just a 2 year span to boot!
50?! That’s nothing, I have windows with hundreds.
The issue is that some alternatives are worse than the thing they are replacing, and alternatives are also not as “mainstream” and often more expensive. And if you’re buying a drink you’re getting whatever is in the mass produced beverage, unless you’re going to spend the time to label shop and are prepared to leave empty handed.
The difference could be linked to a number of factors: Those with higher incomes often have more reliable access to safely drinkable tap water. They tend to work in indoor environments, where air-conditioning may mean there is less need to stay hydrated. And they may be more aware of the potential health consequences of high sugar consumption.
When you are the 99% and are sweating your ass off I think people are thinking more of a cold drink to cool down more than, “oh man I better stay hydrated”. And a lemonade tastes ace compared to another glass of water. And if you have enough money to have door to door AC it only makes more sense that like other food related things, if you have the means to have better your going to likely have better.
It boggles my mind that all these power companies aren’t building out solar and wind everywhere they can. The return on investment alone has to be better than constantly buying/obtaining fossil fuels. I would think maintenance overhead would also be less as well.
Your probability of remaining anonymous with Google is already slim, but trying to remain anonymous while also using their services has to be near impossible. They are one of the largest advertisers on the Internet, and they have the reach and tech to fingerprint almost everyone.
And it’s also hard for a company to protect profits (remember in the US – capitalism > civil liberties) and comply with all these new regulations if your users are all hiding their locations via VPN.
Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws
Also have the ruling of their antitrust case coming up:
Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL) Likely to Avoid Breakup, But Antitrust Remedies Could Hit Core Revenue
Yep, they’ll enforce rolling blackouts before they make the LLMs scale back anything.
In another (better) timeline governments would stop giving these people handouts and make them responsible for funding and maintaining their own power.
I wonder if all these new “protect the kids” age verification laws play a part in this. Not sure what YouTube’s/Google’s liability would be in allowing, for instance, UK users to just VPN around there “Online Safety Act” requirement(s). I’m sure they could play dumb for a bit, but eventually some jackass is going to hear about what people are doing and get Google to explain why VPN traffic is way UP and UK traffic is way DOWN, and “think of the children!”.
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I was suggesting a Flatpak from a supported project over a random package from wherever being run as root on their box, yes.
And I just don’t see why I would install another insecure layer that is just going to use Docker/Podman, why not just install Docker/Podman and be done. And for a desktop app installing a Flatpak seems like a better tool than a pod/docker container if you can’t get a native package.