I air gap my shit

that’s an interesting claim, how do you use online multiplayer games and discord while “air gapped”?

and again, your “tangible benefit” is rendered largely moot by the fact that you can absolutely get around kernel anticheat. All it really does is keep the skids releasing free cheats on UnknownCheats and MPGH out.

“I’m OK with companies using incredibly shitty, intrusive software practices because I don’t think they’ll affect me personally” is such a shit take for so many reasons, to name a few:

1. giving software kernel access, especially when it does not or should not need kernel access, is a security risk, and does open the door for malicious actors to take advantage of vulnerabilities even if the software is not malicious in and of itself

2. occasionally, intensively intrusive programs like this do break things unintentionally, which can lead to all sorts of fun issues. StarForce DRM is a good example from years past.

3. just because you do not have anything on your PC that you consider sensitive, does not mean that applies to everyone.

4. Kernel level anticheat can be bypassed. It’s usually not cheap/easy, but it can and has been done. Meaning, for all of the above concessions you make, there is no real benefit.

these are just the few I can think of immediately.

tried the Tab Stash addon?

literally have not had to skip a youtube ad in years, because I use ReVanced and AdNauseam like a sane person.

I’m going to be sad when YouTube dies, and all that collective knowledge and content either goes poof or is haphazardly, incompletely transferred to some “new thing”, whenever that is – but I won’t be that sad.

lol

Furthermore: lmao

Life imitates art, I’m sure I’ve seen this in a comedy movie at some point. I just never thought anyone would be dumb enough to say it in real life.

Yeah, I have a Steam Deck, and it’s literally just a PC in the form factor of a Switch. It has a BIOS menu, you can install Windows on it (but you really shouldn’t), you can install a different flavor of Linux (I recommend Bazzite) – you can even install and play pirated Windows games through Proton, more or less fine, though you have to work for it a bit more.

They developed Proton so that they could get Windows games working on the Deck, and the reason they didn’t make the Deck run Windows is they wanted greater control over the OS than Windows affords. Proton has benefited all gamers on Linux. More recently, they’ve officially partnered with Arch as of a few days ago (which is what SteamOS is built on): https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-arch-linux-team-is-now-working-directly-with-valve-steamos-and-arch-should-both-benefit-greatly

and just to gush a bit more: the Deck is the only thing I can remember pre-ordering in the last 10 years and being genuinely happy that I did.

y’know, whenever people started getting snippy about pronouns, I often said I was just going to start calling them an “it”.

I never thought ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶o̶n̶e̶ something would want that.

If you want a really good 4X game, try Stellaris. It’s where I went after 1000+ hours of Civ 5 (and coming to Civ 6 to be disappointed by it, played only like 80 hours), and I’ve been ̶t̶e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶i̶z̶i̶n̶g̶ liberating the galaxy ever since. I especially like the additional nuances to diplomacy, which are further enhanced by mods – Civ’s AI has always been a bit ham-fisted.

oh boy, between this and robinson, it’s getting real dumb real fast

ya love to see it

every time I learn something new about Ohio, I like it just a little bit less, and I already fucking hate Ohio.

This is exactly why he gives me the heebie jeebies. That fuck would sell out his own mother for a Klondike bar.

I know we used to find common ground and reach across the aisle, and I just don’t know how we’ll ever get back there now, to be quite honest. In that way, the American political landscape in the last 50 years has gotten much, much worse.

I’m honestly not sure how much of that you can attribute to foreign powers vs. Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Dick Cheney (off the top of my head – there are many more), but it’s interesting to think about.

I don’t know if you’re in the same boat I am, but this is about the boat I’m in:

saw that on here a couple days back, and I’ve been applying to jobs for six months! The 'tism is some bullshit.

I’m sure I could get a job at Walmart or McDonald’s if I had no standards, but frankly I’d rather just scrape by doing Uber and Lyft. And everything else that I have applied to? Got me two whole interviews. In six months. Which I then never heard back from.

Fuck modern employment culture, man.

Don’t care + touch grass, don’t eat it. Bye 😘

no no, you misunderstand, vegans/vegetarians usually aren’t doing it to be healthy, they’re doing it to feel morally superior.

What you mean to mock them with is “yeah cartels are wholesome, sex and drug trafficking is good for the soul 🤗”

it’s nice to see I’ve never had an original thought in my life

Friendly reminder that nobody asked you for your opinion on others choices, and it’s a shit one.

On the one hand, yeah, this is a horrible thing to say to someone

On the other, if anyone ever reminded you of Stephen from Django Unchained… This guy’s a pretty good candidate.

that was the giveaway, huh? Not… you know, everything else that’s come out of his mouth?