This only works up to a point. Many loving parents will say their kids need to make their own experiences, but they will still keep them from sticking their hand into a power outlet. I wouldn’t say the kid’s choices have no meaning because of this.

Also, if this is true, God also gave us our murderous instincts that make us use our “free will” in this way.

What does it mean? To me it’s like words pulled randomly out of a hat. (i.e. the emperor has no clothes on.)

Our scumbag neoliberals privatized Deutsche Post in the 90s, but Deutsche Post AG is still legally obligated to provide basic mail service.

The reason is rich people.

Which programmer, game designer, graphics designer, voice actor, musician or what have you is paid how much more because they added denuvo? After the fact, mind you, so all the contracts and wages were agreed long ago.

I’m using Waterfox on Android since the “privacy friendly ad” thing in FF.

Who exactly “wins” anything here?

The dev pays for denuvo licenses an doesn’t gain enough sales to make up for it - lose.

The pirate waits longer to play the game - lose.

The paying customer gets an inferior product - lose.

In a world were plenty of games without denuvo are doing just fine? Fuck yeah I blame the publisher/dev.

He also did not show the troubleshooting afterwards or even testing another distro which can be done very quickly, and declared that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.

Because he had people waiting for him in a game lobby (that’s the thing I’d actually give him shit for, trying out a new OS at a LAN) and decided to fall back to a known working OS to be able to get on with his day. And that’s exactly what many average users would do in a similar situation (not necessarily sitting at a LAN but maybe urgently needing to get on with productive task x y or z instead of troubleshooting).

He also did not declare “that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.”, this is a multi part series and he already said he tried different distros afterwards.

I really hope he realises how not for his use case it is

Installing a deck verified game with a gold protondb rating and playing it?

What’s the difference between watching him struggle with popos or having my mother do the same?

I can’t watch your mom on youtube? Average windows users will want to know if they can make the switch with their average windows user knowledge and approach, that’s valuable information to them.

If he used all these special resources he has, that would be akin to those “I built this super awesome table from scrap wood I found behind my local supermarket” videos that fail to mention they also used the 100.000 bucks worth of tools in their professional woodworking shop. And people would then rightfully complain about that.

And a new user trying to pick a distro would know and understand that … how? Because that’s the experience he’s trying to emulate.

I frequently see pop os recommended on lemmy too, so please don’t act like it’s obviously some outrageously silly choice.

Few acts say “crimes against humanity” better than bombing a country’s water supply.

The question is to gamers. I use my PC mainly for gaming and light “office” tasks (doing taxes, writing e-mails, shopping online, that kind of thing). So what windows would I need to restore? The browser window with the wiki to the game I’m playing doesn’t take that long to reload. Other than that I want as little background tasks as possible when I’m running a game, especially if it’s demanding to the hardware.

And no matter how good sleep functions are at power saving, a device that’s on does use power which I can save by turning off what I don’t use.

Of course I shut down my PC when I’m not using it, what kind of question is that?

If I were a console vendor and I were worried about the PC as a competing platform, I’d think that I’d try to emphasize my competitive multiplayer games, not single-player games.

Step one: Don’t charge extra for online play.

You can pay 6€ for shipping today or help amazon finally become the monopolist, and then tomorrow your batteries will just cost 10€.

Another way is to ask at the next electronics store as I’m sure they can order them with their next routine shipment.

I don’t know about other countries, but the german e-ID for example is more sophisticated than that. It can actually limit access to the information that is necessary for the given application (your terminal or app shows you what specific information is requested before you confirm via PIN). So it can just return “yes/no” to the question “is this person an adult?” Almost no company uses it, likely because they can’t steal data that way.

She was aware it happened to others and despite evidence to the contrary just bought the US government’s narrative that those all were illegals and criminals.