Flatpak being securely sandboxed by default is both its biggest strength and its worst point of contention. The XDG is still scrambling to replicate the permission requests paradigm from Android on the Linux desktop.

That reminds me, is Flatpak packaging CLI tools already?

I’d settle for that solution anyways, but only as long as users can still mix and match kernels (one for secure boot and games that require anti-cheat, and another for custom hardware)

Which is why I prefer the MacOS approach better - instead of relying on the developer adding a hypervisor, Apple uses binary signatures for all the relevant system files which are attested via something similar to Secure Boot, plus an Apple-provided API for runtime attestation, to ensure that the system has not been touched since boot. I suspect that Valve’s assistance in making Arch Linux builds reproducible is pointing towards that goal.

Single-player? Absolutely. Multiplayer though? Outside of fighting games, indie games, and anything made by Valve, it’s increasingly difficult to find any multiplayer game that works on Linux, and even those that still work can have the multiplayer yanked off down the line like what happened with Apex Legends.

Considering that Vanguard has already been bypassed at least once (see dailydarkweb.net/vanguard-bypa… ), I think somebody must already know if the tool is ultimately malicious or not. Problem is, the somebody that knows has a vested interest in not disclosing any details, being a cheat bypasser and all.

That’s precisely why I haven’t so much as touched any games if they don’t support Linux with their anti-cheat solution. The developers of Apex Legends proudly announcing that dropping support for Linux made cheaters drop “significantly” doesn’t sit well with me, and in fact I suspect EA is doing something malicious that can’t be feasibly detected precisely because of their kernel-level access. And don’t even get me started with Tencent-funded Riot’s Vanguard, it’s practically guaranteed that China will eventually demand to use it as a backdoor someday.

A shame that many multiplayer game developers, like EA and Riot, still consider Linux to be too unsafe to trust with an anti-cheat. I wonder if Valve is working on a proper solution for that - signed kernels and packages a la MacOS, perhaps?

My municipality does something similar but with the procedure being backwards - giving tax breaks to owners of one single property, that are, of course, unavailable to owners of multiple houses

You mean “boycott all privative culture and start learning how to not depend on entertainment to have a fulfilling life” right?

We should be boycotting all art and entertainment from Big Media in its entirety, but nobody is willing to do so

You all trying to tell me that, all along, we didn’t really need to reduce the birth rates and let the natural selection cull all those innocent people?

So THAT is exactly why PowerWash Simulator, the videogame, exists in the first place

If Big Media is so dogged on not letting me watch something then fine, I’ll exercise my freedom of association and boycott it if they want it so much.

And that’s why I distrust anything under a non-commercial CC license. Besides of the fact that it’s as good as proprietary for projects like Wikipedia, there’s also the unfortunate fact that the people (and companies) that choose non-commercial licensing over copyleft are more likely than not to pull the rug down the line.

Any plans to start saving up to move elsewhere, by the way?

On one hand, nice to see support for ARM - on the other hand, hopefully that can trickle down to Linux down the line one way or another.

In hindsight, it makes sense that an edgy series like Rick and Morty was originally written by a serial harasser. And people insist on separating the art from the artist, now THAT is a red flag for me

It might be my inner prescriptivist at work, but while I understand the need for a singular they, I absolutely loathe it’s accompanied with a singular are. If the language is being reformed, why not take a page out of AAVE and start using “they’s” and “you’s”?

Since engaging in society means indirectly endorsing all of its evils, and even interacting with questionable people is functionally equivalent to platforming them, the only ethical thing to do is to become a self-sufficient hermit. Problem is, there aren’t enough terrains on this planet to allot one fully decked farm for each inhabitant…