I would keep my feet in both sides, but nobody I know has their feet in any. They’re all Discord/Facebook/Whatsapp.

I think SMS via Signal probably undermines the entire point of it. It’s supposed to be private, if messages are as exposed as text messages by default then their entire mission goes down the toilet.

You can commercialize GPL projects, but good luck getting people to pay that much for a project they could so easily fork. The best you could do is $20 per iso file, but even then that’s only if you’ve got a lot of cultural sway and that’d disappear the moment you start paywalling things.

Companies like Red Hat, OpenSUSE, and Canonical charge for tech support, which I think is the most effective way to earn money off FOSS software but doesn’t really encourage development so much as brand recognition.

Basically all of them. The only games I’m ever hyped about are ones I have personal reasons for. That means it’s by a developer of a game I really like such as Bennett Foddy or Zachtronics, or it’s in a very niche genre that I love but rarely see and don’t have the search terms for (Voices of the Void, etc.).

I just block the communities for foreign country’s politics and ignore any political stuff in the other ones.

Mostly it’s to do with boycotts. Like, it’s not the end of the world if you don’t play a video game. I’m generally quite loose with my money if it’s not on any boycott list, since I can feel good about even pointless things if my money isn’t going to something evil.

Why would we want to stop it?

No, god no. I have plenty to do in the shower and not enough hot water.

Yeah, obviously. Really it’s whoever can make AI the cheapest who will win because generative AI is not going to revolutionize anything. It can break things as it has already, but without a tonne of human labor it can’t get to the level it needs for the average person to pay much money for it.

The market will be won by whoever can survive the bubble bursting.

Secureboot does something or other I don’t understand, but it seems to restrict what you can install on your computer. And I’ve heard stories of BIOS software bricking itself when you turn off secure-boot.

It did that because they were worried about people circumventing the cosmetic microtransactions. In essence they blocked Linux for DRM purposes.

And then there’s secureboot on desktop computers.

Climate change won’t end the world, though that isn’t to say it won’t make things hell on earth. Nuclear war however could very well end all life on earth.

I don’t have the patience for even that minimal amount of troubleshooting. So I just leave it be until it fixes itself.

Weird. I only know of Europeans getting free extended security updates.

Mint or CachyOS.

CachyOS runs 10% faster but it’s Arch-based so it’s not as easy as Mint.

I tried playing the BC Piezophile demo recently but it kept crashing on the main menu.

I’m someone who doesn’t do tinkering. If it doesn’t work then I move on to a different game until it or proton updates.

To most people the OS is the computer. If Microsoft was extremely mismanaged, they’d probably buy a new Windows 11 computer first. After failing that they’d need someone they know to boot them into Linux with a live-boot USB.

I think the level of mismanagement required for that to happen is probably unrealistic. It’d need to be on the level that people would switch back to Windows 10 en-mass and Microsoft would definitely notice that.

That’s true, though it’s only the Europeans that got free security updates.

As long as we reach it before everyone moves to Windows 11. There’s no saving those people.