Maybe a knee high fence. It will slow the most basic and casual botting, and maybe eliminate some of that very very basic ROI, but it won’t do anything to stop the real professionals.

We see countless examples in games. It’s an arms race and all you can do is mitigation. As long as there’s something to be gained from botting, they’ll exist. It’s only a matter how much.

Nothing, it’s just additional friction and cost to create them

Neither is the steam deck user base, or would-be Linux converts. What’s your point?

I haven’t run into any limitations of the file system and I hardly even know what pacman is. And I haven’t felt ‘controlled’ by Valve, certainly not to the extent of a console or even Windows/Mac. I can sudo whatever I want. I’m sure you have a use case, but I’m still just not seeing it.

Are their proton versions just proton GE? To what extent does it actually run better?

More than you think, apparently. I go into desktop mode nearly every time I use it, whether to install mods, non-steam games, emulators, streaming services, web browser, decky loader, etc. knowing it was open like a PC vs a closed off console was 90% of the reason I got one.

Besides that, is using bash really the metric for Linux user? I did that in Windows. It’s fine if people are using the GUI. This is just weirdly gatekeepy

The crossover of PC power users and steam deck owners is going to be relatively high compared to a traditional console, which is exactly the demographic that would be persuaded to Linux via the deck. I speak from experience

People type their credit cards into online stores all the time.

Sure, under the assumption that it’s not being stored without permission, or securely with permission. People are and should be very cautious about what sites you directly submit your card info to, and for less popular sites people are more and more opting to use a third party payment processor like apple, amazon, PayPal, etc.

In the US, most restaurants still take your card out of eyesight to be processed, although processing devices at the table is becoming more popular.

One of the most common ways cards get skimmed in person. You should absolutely be wary of this especially if it takes an unusually long time. I’ve been at group dinners where this was commented on. Seems pretty common sense.

I don’t think most people even think about it most of the time in the US because the credit card companies take care of disputes. Europe is definitely way ahead of us on secure payments!

I disagree. This is a common point of concern in my experience with customer facing roles, and anecdotally in my social life. When I worked for a major cell provider, for example, we sent a digital form to the customer so that we didn’t have to collect card info over the phone at all. In the event that we did as a fallback, customers were very wary of this across the board.

I’ve only seen those in movies, and I haven’t even had an embossed card in years. but most people (rightfully so) would refuse having their card info written anywhere these days. Things have really changed

When I worked in a restaurant we still had paper bills in the office we could write up if our system was down. If you wanted to pay with card, we would offer to write down your card info and charge it later, or accept cash only. We’d always inform new customers of this before taking their order.

If someone already ordered and was unable to pay we’d just take the loss on good faith that they’d return to pay, no holding ID or anything like that. It’s a relatively small loss for the restaurant to maintain a good reputation. Orders get comped all the time for more trivial reasons, and food cost is already a major part of a restaurant’s overhead.

But if power is out, then that generally means the kitchen isn’t functioning either unless the restaurant has generators

What advantages does Cachy have?

Well SteamOS isn’t made for a desktop environment, that’s not really what they’re saying. It’s exposing more users to Linux though, and showing that it’s not so scary. I am running a debian virtual machine occasionally now for certain tasks, and tinkering with my Steam Deck really eased that transition. I’m seriously considering dual booting my MacBook because I hate Mac OS so much despite using it for multiple years prior to the Steam Deck.

And most importantly, it has catapulted proton/linux gaming support across the the industry. We’re seeing indie devs going out of their way to get the little Steam Deck verified badges on their store page. It’s at the point now that a majority of the games I want to play run great on Linux, and I’ll seriously consider switching my gaming desktop to Linux if I run into Win10 end of life issues.

Prior to the Steam Deck, none of this was even on my radar. I wouldn’t even be included in your “people on this sub” remark if it weren’t for the deck. It’s absolutely a gateway to wider Linux adoption

So are you lugging around a keyboard, screen and usb hub with it or what?

I switched to a MacBook Air + Steam Deck combo for work/gaming and it’s fairing much better than my old gaming laptop ever did on both fronts

I haven’t actually seen a raid ad in years at this point. (Except your hopefully ironic comment, so good job unironically promoting them)

I don’t know if it’s just my sponsorblock + adblock combo or if their gorilla advertising has fallen off, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

And it looks like a better game than monster hunter now

I just tried nightly too and I’m not getting that, what file is it trying to download?

I do have a second video ad halfway down the screen that autoplays against my permissions. Installing ublock origin fixes that problem. Are you running ublock? Which video was auto playing for you? Ads really wont care what your settings are, but that’s why we block them entirely.

Sheesh, sounds like you did all the basic troubleshooting already. Are you signing into a profile? Maybe it’s importing a setting from that

I also ran the nightly for quite a while because I needed access to about:config and they’ve been locking it down for a while now. You can’t even open a local html file on firefox mobile anymore. I don’t really understand why they’re moving backwards.

Anyway if you find a solution, I’d love to hear how you fixed it

Could also be rare in an algorithmic sense. If someone randomly uploads it to YouTube in 2007, only gets 12 views and it just sits there unwatched for years

I just followed those steps and it worked perfectly on the OP link. Then I switched it back and got autoplay again.

The path on android is hamburger menu > settings > privacy and security > site settings > autoplay

Sorry but if you don’t like autoplay, it’s your responsibility to disable that on your device. Here’s how to do it in firefox:

1. Open Firefox.

2. Go to Settings:

   • Click the menu button (three horizontal lines in the top-right).
   • Select Settings (or Preferences on macOS/Linux).

3. In the left sidebar, select Privacy & Security.

4. Scroll down to the Permissions section.

5. Next to Autoplay, click Settings.

6. Change the dropdown at the top to Block Audio and Video.

7. Click Save Changes.

I had despecialized some years ago on an old media server, but I can’t seem to find it in my library anymore. Can you point me in the right direction? Trying to find Topher Grace’s prequels edit again, too

They’re cheaper which is insane. We could see a boom if third party manufacturers hop on steamOS now