The latter. Always the latter. You know why?

There are in fact many games with functioning anticheats that do not require kernel access. And there are also plenty of games with kernel level anticheat that is easily bypassed by, and thus are full of, cheaters.

Know why? Because the difference is “does the game’s moderation team give a fuck?”.

That’s it. That’s what makes the difference. Kernel level anticheat is a band-aid solution that’s cheaper than paying a decent support team what they’re worth. And if they’d rather pay for a half-assed software solution that’s also a gaping hole in user security, then you shouldn’t play the game in the first place. I don’t negotiate with terrorists, and neither should you.

I’ll hold out on praise until they open source Red Alert 3.

Because then the game itself will have escaped to the one place that isn’t corrupted by capitalism.

I’m on a 2080 on Mint and have been for the past year, haven’t had any major issues so far.

not at all arguing this is okay, not even a little

but

If you are the French government, and you know what the French populace has a history of doing to the French government, it would be understandable to want to keep your eye on them, no?

again. It ain’t cool. But I’m honestly surprised they didn’t hop on the “intrusive surveillance” bandwagon sooner, like, as soon as mass surveillance became feasible, and have the privacy laws they do.

honestly, this is brilliant. Not only is it going to make it easier to understand people with really thick accents – I’ve worked with lots of Indian people before (hotel industry) and I still get tripped up from time to time, especially over a crappy phone line – but it’ll also probably cut down on a lot of the racist shit they may take from customers. I can imagine the average call center employee with a thick accent takes a fair bit more abuse than call center employees who speak without an accent.

on the other hand, this might also make it harder to identify a scam call immediately if this becomes commonplace. Not that perfect English speakers aren’t also capable of scamming you, but, usually the scam callers aren’t perfect English speakers.

I believe Quebec already lays claim to that title.

Oh, I just reconnect to different Mullvad servers until it connects to one that isn’t flagged by Reddit, on the rare occasion I need info from a Reddit post.

Unfortunately for Reddit, I am more stubborn than they are, and will quite happily spend 5 minutes doing that instead of registering an account/going without a VPN. And if they “fix” that, I’m quite certain I could find a workaround.

spez being a spineless fuckboy? Nooooo.

“Reddit continues to be anti-free speech,” Cedric Hohnstadt said on X. “I just got a lifetime ban from the ‘comics’ subreddit. Yesterday, I posted a humor comic that got over 5,400 upvotes. Then I noticed that there was a pinned post from the moderators saying that comics linked from X could no longer be shared because Musk gave a Nazi salute. I commented saying no he didn’t. The moderator accused me of being pro-Nazi, banned me permanently for life, and deleted all my past posts from the ‘comics’ subreddit. But somehow Elon Musk is the totalitarian?” The post has been viewed 3.7 million times.

Amazing that a blind man can draw comics.

press send on that post that you felt wasn’t of enough substance to be worth anyone’s time.

I feel like you vastly underestimate the amount of subpar shitposts I’m capable of composing (and then thinking better of) in a given day.

Ice cream, soup (add crackers and let them soften, if you want), possibly noodles.

One snack food you can eat without chewing, goldfish crackers. One or two at a time, just let them soak up saliva in your mouth and soften before swallowing.

Certain hard candy, as long as you don’t suck on them too hard. Think peppermints, something that’ll make you salivate (which will help it dissolve without having to suck on it too aggressively – you do not want dry socket). Also, any other soft candy that’ll dissolve, like York peppermint patties, might be okay.

if it’s higher than $60, R* can lick my taint.

in fact, if the online is as ridden with issues as 5’s online has been, I’ll probably just pirate it. Why would I want to pay $60+ just so I can get squeezed for even more money via microtransactions; and having to pay even more for a mod menu, just to exist in a server without being hassled? Fuck that with a rusty fork.

Seconded

I’ve played Helldivers 2 for over 400 hours now, and all of that has been on linux.

Look it up on protondb, there’s some launch options you could try.

oh, that tard’s still around? I blocked him months ago.

I can affirm my experience has been all the better for it, so yes, the rest of the fediverse should throw the Nazi out of the bar.

because reddit admins are surely always in the right and never overzealous about banning for the slightest transgression or even non-transgressions, right?

…right?

why would you want to? it hasn’t been worth using in well over a year or two now.

The most I get out of reddit nowadays is looking up error messages or other tech issues, and I don’t need an account for that.

the thing I think a lot of “linux dorks” (and I use that term lovingly) forget about is that most people want to work on their computer, not work on their computer. The OS, for most people, should be the software equivalent of a motherboard – an invisible plinth upon which the actual things you care about sit. With a motherboard, that’s your GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. and with the OS, that’s the applications you run.

there’s nothing wrong with making fiddling with your computer a hobby, and I’ve been known to dabble myself over the years, but for me and most other normal people, that ends up being too much work for too little reward in the end. Mint getting to the point where you can daily drive it and not have to worry about it even if you’re a complete brainlet when it comes to Linux is a massive W.

Well it is very on-brand.

It’s not ridiculous. It’s that sociopaths are happy to crush other people underfoot to get what they want, and good people aren’t. And thus, they get ahead. It is just that simple.