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I agree with them when they say distros shouldn’t be theming their apps by default. When the packager breaks a package, it misleadingly gives users the impression that the software is at fault. Unless the distro itself is willing to field all the user complaints and bug reports, it just ends up causing problems for the maintainers.

Where I will never agree with them is in the demand that the developer has exclusive control over the application icon. It’s inconsequential to the software’s functionality, and if anyone thinks their brand should have more rights to a computer than the person who owns it, they can rightfully fuck off with the likes of Apple and Microsoft.

App Icons are the identity of an app. Changing an app’s icon denies the developer the possibility to control their brand.

Here’s an novel solution to that: fuck off! A lot of us use Linux because we’re sick of corporations and rightsholders trying to control how we use our devices while treating us as marketing tools by shoving their “vision” in our face.

Can you recommend me other (non atomic) distros that play nice with both secure boot and nvidia drivers?

I wouldn’t exactly recommend it because of the learning curve, but I have the exact setup you’re looking for working on NixOS.

Lanzaboote made it pretty easy. The downside is that you need to put secure boot into user-managed mode, and some asshole anticheats might not like that even though only Microsoft-signed executables were used in the boot chain of Windows.

For gamers who are newcomes to Linux, Ubuntu (or Debian) should be a hard pass. Linux gaming is advancing too fast for the 2-3 year gap between LTS versions to not matter, and trying to work around the stable (outdated) packages is typically what ends up breaking installs.

For gaming, you can’t go wrong with Bazzite. It’s meant for gaming to mostly just work out of the box, so you likely won’t need to tinker with anything.

It’s that tinkering that introduces stability risks. Adding third-party package repositories and trying to install newer software on top of older LTS distros is what tends to end up breaking them.

Neither did I. Now I just don’t have time for sleep.

Even if the server had zero knowledge of your private keys (which is doubtful), I’m sure the client code won’t have any backdoors. It’s only the social media “platform” owned by the world’s most thin-skinned billionaire.

if (message.contains("elon") || message.contains("musk")) {
    upload(chat.privateKey)
}

You can block it with a carefully-crafted userscript that hooks the fetch API and returns fake responses for the svc event, but then Reddit starts flagging your IP address as a bot and demands you log in to an account to prove otherwise. You can’t win.

Curious what kind of real world use makes it a good choice?

It’s declarative. Everything is (usually) configured via Nix itself, without requiring manual steps of running additional commands. This ends up being pretty useful when you have a fleet of devices that you want to configure.

Changing config is atomic. If you end up breaking your system when trying to tweak it, you can boot into the previous generation and try again with different settings.

I wouldn’t count on it. I’m 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another update, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for “security” reasons.

I bet the next step will be to block a device from wireless debugging itself, so they can kill Shizuku.

How would this impact F-Droid in any way?

F-Droid itself builds the APKs to ensure that they’re reproducible and not signed on a development machine that could be compromised.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_General/#is-your-building-and-signing-process-secure

With these changes, either:

• They use Google’s developer identity process to sign every APK they build with their own developer identity, which Google is likely not going to allow or is going to quickly find an example of a “malicious” app so they can blacklist all of them; or
• They stop building APKs and just trust the developer provides a non-malicious, pre-verified APK;
• They find a way to mediate the process between the original developer and Google. Knowing Google, they would make it as needlessly painful for everyone involved to discourage and punish alternative app stores.

To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear before the Oversight Committee and explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes

In other words, explain what you’ll be doing to add censorship to your platforms.

They really could not have picked a worse demographic to try that on. Not only do online gamers despise censorship and policing, their vocal minority is known for being extremely toxic and unrelenting. The icing on the cake is that a good number of them are right-wing, too.

Have fun dealing with the shitstorm you’re about to create!

People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.

It’s even better when you realize that the performance degrades the longer you’ve been playing that session. It’s unoptimized and leaky.

Wow, you weren’t kidding.

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• #1: A code editor designed for AI
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• #2: Messaging app (no AI)
• #3: Note taking and planning software… with AI.
• #4: Screen recording software (no AI)
• #5: Visual Studio Code extension for using AI to write internal tooling.
• #6: Project management software (no AI?)
• #7: A web interface for using AI models.
• #8: A note-taking app (no AI)
• #9: AI-based workflow automation software.
• #10: Yet another AI code editor.
• #11: A bookmark manager… with AI.
• #12: A collaboration software suite (no AI)
• #13: A different note-taking app (no AI)
• #14: AI-powered social media management.
• #15: AI personal assistant.
• #16: Markdown-based wiki software (no AI)
• #17: Rich text wiki software (no AI)
• #18: A third note-taking app (no AI)
• #19: A LLM interface.
• #20: AI-powered personal finance tool.

Over half of the first 20 items focus on AI, and that’s not even considering the ads.

They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.

Even if they did, anyone desperate enough for the vague promise of money isn’t going to have enough of it to hire a lawyer.

Frankly insurance companies need to be holding the car manufacturer’s feet to the fire by not insuring cars that can be trivially stolen like this.

The governments should be, too.

Instead, some countries are taking the approach of banning Flipper Zeros or restricting their sale instead. That’s like outlawing flathead screwdrivers because you can use them to pop improperly-installed doors off of their hinges.

It’s on the car manufacturers to fix their poor security, not on tool suppliers to not make tools.

Worst bossrun so far was probably the judge which was only like 2 screens when you think about it.

I found that run back to be infuriating at first, but it quickly stopped mattering once I realized that you don’t need to kill everything on the path over and are for the most part better off just running past the enemies.

Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.

There’s one trap that actually is pretty strong if you know how to abuse it.

I’m not going to spoil where or how to get it, but flying beetles that home in on the enemy and repeatedly bump into it to deal damage can be pretty busted… especially when they still attack during phase change animations that stop the player from moving.