Some Linux bad Windows good troll

There is a difference there in that these are digital copies (easy to make more copies) vs physical books (hard to make more copies).

That said, the only reason this is an issue is copyright lasts too long on relatively short lived games. If copyright on games was a more reasonable “15 years since their last major revision”, this wouldn’t be a problem.

I do not trust bitwarden to encrypt my data anymore than anyone trusts keypass to encrypt my data.

They’re both open source and they both do the encryption locally; you’re plainly mistaken.

Maybe for traveling. However, how many people really are going to buy an expensive electronic device for a few hours on a plane?

That’s a pretty “upper class” luxury at best. Then, there’s nobody developing apps for it outside of a few streaming providers (maybe).

Also, I work with multiple monitors all day and play games on those monitors at night, but I still appreciate that I can look away from the content and just “get up and get a drink” or look out the window and watch the birds outside of my office at the feeder.

Also think about all this effort people put in to try and reduce their screen time… A VR headset is the antithesis of that objective.

I really don’t think head sets will ever be absolutely insane products.

Lots of people just don’t want to strap a display to their face.

To tell people it was rigged

Like radically insidious man.

That seems incredibly unconvincing on its own. It sounds like this person had a lot of alt accounts, probably was doing ban evasion, and kept posting things that violated the TOS.

That’s literally a passkey.

That’s adorable!

Buddy, you have a genuine problem in that you’re refusing security updates. Never mind the importance of your data, a system that’s not receiving patches can become part of a bot net using your bandwidth to perform DDoS attacks, it can be used as a springboard to infect other systems, and it can be used to spy on you (if not directly via hardware sensors, MAC spoofing based MITM is a thing), it can lead to hardware level compromises (by infecting the BIOS), it can be used as a proxy for illegal activity, and probably some other stuff I’m not thinking of right now.

If you want to update to Windows 11, I fully accept that as a valid choice.

This is not a Linux vs Windows issue. This is “I don’t like what Windows has become in 11 … and I will not be getting security updates on Windows 10 soon.” So, your valid options to be responsible are A) get over it and update to 10, Microsoft owns Windows, you do what they do if you want to run Windows, B) install Linux, C) buy a Mac and host it on that, D) install FreeBSD and host it on that, E) write your own operating system, F) find some other niche operating system.

So when I suggest “just install Linux and fix your problem” it’s not fan-boy-ism; it’s accepting the reality that what you’re doing is a bad idea and you shouldn’t do it.

Interesting, I missed that they’d opened that up.

Do you have any good information on how the ATProtocol requires interaction with their servers?

My quick look at it suggests that everything occurs on the same network (presumably there’s some way to override that) but the servers are independent. So you seemingly can “get to everything” regardless of who your provider is.

I really think the blue sky is bad stuff is overdramatic xbox vs PlayStation kind of stuff.

The fediverse needs a lot of work, blue sky is a different and interesting model that’s different from what we’ve seen so far (even if they haven’t let people start hosting their own blue sky instances).

I say let them complete…

Which president pushed for the infrastructure bill that serves the public, including the poor by increasing mass transportation? Biden.

Will it take decades? Yes, but it would not have happened under Trump.

Which president got drug prices capped? Biden.

Which president got the ACA passed giving poor people health care? Obama.

Which president sent poor people that joined the military to get through college into pointless wars? Bush.

Which president gambled with Ukraine’s security risking WW3 and a draft of poor people? Trump.

Which president killed net neutrality risking ISP price gouging on popular services? Trump.

Which president killed abortion and attempted to get contraception off the ACA? Trump.

Which candidate is working on universal pre-K so families that can’t afford childcare don’t have to have one parent stay at home? Harris.

Which party wants to empower charter schools to take money originally targeted towards public schools which will keep poorer folks disadvantaged? Republicans.

Most people aren’t actually at the minimum wage anyways, they’re somewhere between minimum wage and a comfortable wage. It’ll never be what folks want it to be. The best way to improve quality of life for poor folks IMO is to cut stupid crap that gets in their way of getting a better education, better housing, and keeps them poor with junk fees like overdraft fees.

Oh, btw, Harris is working on junk fees https://www.fidelity.com/news/article/top-news/202410100607RTRSNEWSCOMBINED_KBN3BG0MD-OUSBS_1

I honestly don’t know if there’s any convincing you, but if there’s any part of you I’m resonating with you should SERIOUSLY reconsider your position that it doesn’t matter. It may very well be the difference between poor people living an okay life and fighting on the front lines. Maybe even you personally, we are in a very dangerous point in history.

The whole Regan “are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” measure is some serious “do you feel better 4 minutes after maxing your credit cards on a sports car” logic. Long term effects are what matter, not whether a candidate increases or decreases your salary in the next year.

Oh damn it, good catch I got mixed up… Trump had so many guys.

There were lots of folks that pushed back on Trump up to and including Pence in his act of patriotism certifying the election. I wouldn’t be so skeptical that Miley was one of them, he seems genuinely intelligent and Trump likely only picked him because he has a bad ass nickname “Mad Dog.” (EDIT as another person said, I was wrong on this part – though consider reading https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/?gift=LfMDGClsXPxuFi6NzzlsStWAlW-QPG1x0JcWnXcGjog&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)

The terrifying reality is, a 2024 Trump might not have any of those roadblocks.

I really wish more people took security seriously. Something that is not receiving security updates is not working just fine.

Just make sure your network firewall is good I guess. That’s the only proper way to run outdated stuff and even then it’s sketchy.

Also it’s an operating system not a browser.

Because it will run jellyfin, with fewer system resources, and still get security updates (that you can configure to auto install at the correct time) for … free.

You also won’t at some point find yourself running such an old version of Windows that jellyfin no longer updates unless you buy the latest version of Windows.

You can just go download Ubuntu desktop LTS and do everything by just opening a terminal, plopping that one liner, and letting it run: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux/#repository-automatic

I’ll flip the script and ask “why in the world would you use Windows for something that doesn’t require it?”

I build my own desktops, but they do sell their case individually. I’ll definitely be considering that for my next upgrade.

You’ve got until late 2025 before 10 stops receiving security updates. I would not stay long after that.