The chances of a true philanthropist beating out the psychopaths currently at the top of the chain, is basically nil. They will always fight dirtier.

You need to ensure a government can exert power over the largest organisations in its country. If that ever becomes an issue, the organisation might start behaving as a de facto government of its own and start treating the actual government as a vassal.

Basically we need to kick corporatist politicians out of our governments before they finish rolling out the red carpet for the end of democracy, and start chopping up and/or nationalising these proto-megacorps. If only a few control the tools that put us all out of work, we’re not getting anything close to utopia.

And I suppose I’ll continue my plan of staying the hell away until this administration is long gone

This feels pretty hard to enforce, are they gonna let people self select what they provide or are they perhaps going to give a list of services to give accounts for? The latter would have me looking either like a ghost that disappeared about 7 years ago (for most public social media) or one that disappeared about 3 years ago (if Reddit is included)

What happens to people who don’t use social media at all? Are they going to be treated with suspicion?

I’m not recommending it, I’m describing why saying it adds no security is silly.

The keys being compromised on some motherboards doesn’t mean the whole concept is suddenly inert for every single user

If everyone has a copy of my passwords and authenticator keys, that wouldn’t suddenly make 2 factor auth a compromised idea.

Hell, even if you are one of those people running a machine with the compromised keys, it’s still going to block malware that was written before the keys were leaked unless malware authors have also figured out time travel.

Well boot sector viruses used to be all the rage in the 90s, they’re entirely impossible under secure boot

Malware rootkits were a pretty big problem about a decade ago, I understand the techniques those mostly used are more or less impossible under secure boot now too

Then we could go into all the government and adjacent industry use cases where state-sponsored targeted attacks are a real concern. Measures like filling USB ports with super glue and desoldering microphones on company laptops is not unheard of in those circles, so blocking unknown bootloaders from executing is an absolute no brainer.

Saying it provides no security is just not true. Your front door isn’t only secure if someone has failed to break in

You don’t have to

If you only need it for 90 days before it expires, Microsoft will give you the VM for free (and if you’re particularly industrious, you might write a script that then installs a load of your shit for you to run after you fire up a fresh one)

If you don’t care about potentially breaking the law you can run it forever with a couple of scripts you can find on GitHub

If you don’t want to break the law but also don’t want to pay full price you can get a dubious but working key from sites like G2A and cdkeys

If that’s still too sketchy there’s the OEM licenses (honestly not worth it since they can only activate on a single machine ever)

Or finally you might feel sorry for Microsoft for some strange reason and want to go full retail price.

Basically the same experience with all options for a lot of cases, they’re just happy to have users it seems

It technically does add security in that it prevents a load of attack vectors that would dodge most anti malware tools (i.e. the ones before the anti malware tool can start)

But you’re right in that the execution of the idea is unnecessarily painful for Linux

Especially back before online shopping existed

My lights are broken…

My lights are broken…

Sorrow, sorrow… sorrow… Sorrow!

A dark pattern they’ve started doing from their Android app

The same place used to copy the original URL to the clipboard for around a decade, recently it changed to doing this bullshit in the past year or so

Damn I’ve bought a lot of crucial stuff over the years

I assume they’re my current memory kit too since I pretty much always go with them

Well getting this running on my steam deck has just become one of the top 10 entries on my to-do list

Lol why?

Genuinely seems pretty arbitrary given you need to use their app to start the cast anyway

Goddamn this is knowledge you could have kept to yourself

I’m only just over having balatro on my phone

If they’re gonna buy a nas anyway, how many years to break even?

I guess it’s my turn to say it in a thread:

Shattered pixel dungeon

Best classic roguelike on mobile IMO

I was going to also suggest Downwell but it doesn’t seem to be available any more

A brain that needs to be tricked into falling asleep half the time

Usually it’s not even negative thoughts or anything like that, it’s just busy problem solving

I’m almost the exact opposite, if I have the same meal two days in a row I’m not going to want it again for a couple of weeks.

I know it’s kinda against the spirit of this community, but if you reject enjoying the sheer variety of food this world has to offer, I can’t help but feel you’re missing out on one of the greatest joys of life.

I’m curious do you not get cravings for stuff? I know I’m deficient in B-vitamins if I’m suddenly craving Marmite, for example

Aside from other suggestions already made (but seriously the answer is SPD)

• Peglin - think if peggle was a roguelite inspired by slay the spire
• Mini metro - minimalist puzzle game where you built out a metro system
• Balatro - yes you can get balatro on your phone (it was in the op)

Edit: balatro was in the OP so I’ll add another

• Brotato - made a bit harder than the PC version with the touch controls IMO, but still a good time killer on the phone

Yep, this

I’ve probably sunk several hundreds of hours into it at this point

The fact it’s still being actively developed for like over a decade is just icing on the cake

It was the one that would let me sign up with minimal questions when I wanted to join.

I wasn’t sure if I was necessarily going to stick around at that point, so I didn’t want to answer a questionnaire and wait for approval just to try it out

Inertia has me still here