I still have PTSD related flashbacks to working at geek squad when the stupid fucking dinosaur cursors (absolutely chockablock with viruses) were all the rage… I use the default one build into KDE.

It feels like you’re just gate-keeping Linux because you apparently had a bad experience. It doesn’t sound like you’ve used an Arch-based distro in a while (or if you have, it was Manjaro - there has been a host of problems over there that will take a lot of time and effort to rebuild community trust, imo).

We’ve got 2 desktops and 2 laptops in our house all running Arch-based distros, the oldest being a little over 4 years old without any “breakage”. Two of the users had not even seen Linux prior to this, and one of them is not at all what I would consider “computer savvy”.

I can’t speak for vanilla Arch, but all of the “Arch with helpers” distros I’ve ran had pretty simple buttons to deal with system maintenance. Additionally, I’ve seen firsthand the difference a rolling-release distro can make over a “stable” release for game and hardware compatibility. It’s generally much easier to get (and keep) all the hardware working correctly on a gaming laptop in one of those arch-based distros than Debian or Mint, especially if it has an nvidia gpu. I couldn’t in good conscience recommend anything debian based to someone in that boat personally.

The use of the system matters A LOT when recommending a new distro. For some grandparents that just browse facebook and send e-mails - yea I’d probably just put Debian or LMDE on their system. I’m not sure I would make the same recommendation to anyone else though.

I don’t understand how anyone can keep a straight face when they hear an AI company crying about another AI company “stealing” from them while they go before lawmakers and argue that if they weren’t allowed to steal stuff, AI wouldn’t exist… I immediately picture the Always Sunny meme “oh, did someone get addicted to crack” Crying motions.

The news story linked said that the scammer told the police she was shot and killed.

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Well DUH…

I am shocked constantly by the number to tech-savvy people in my circle that still use chrome… Like, they complain that ublock origin “died” and I can’t help but stare slack-jawed at them…

I think they just made their post title the same as the linked article title, which generally seems to be the accepted “thing to do” on Lemmy. The OP also hasn’t said anything in the comments - seems like a lot of posts are just bots linking to maybe-relevant articles?

Considering the linked article is dated from the 4th, where it went from nearly 28 down to 23.40, that’s nearly 20% drop.

That’s a fun theory, but the discs have so little to do with most gaming these days anyway I think you are just as likely to get hosed due to some licensing or account bullshit with a disc as you are without. Seems less and less games work just from the disc every year.

It’s worse, that was when the industry realized we weren’t using our phones how they wanted, so they had to start cramming this shit in our cars and door bells and thermostats because they couldn’t reliably monitor the entire populace just through phones. We (corpos) need smart smoke alarms (surveillance devices), legally mandated in every room of the house, to keep us safe (monitored) 24/7.

Everyone I knew with a PS1 had a mod chip in it to play copied games. Cracks and CD-keys for PC games were everywhere online. It was dummy easy to do even before Napster or Kazaa, but those things definitely accelerated it. I remember people in college having pirated copies of photoshop, mathematica, and autocad because they needed them for classes and didn’t have $600-$1000 to shell out on software on top of books - I know that isn’t games, but the principle of pirating them was pretty similar at the time.

Yea, calling it all torrenting, when referring to an era before torrents even existed is wild. Dude is making up their own language about it at this point.

WoW is definitely at the top and it will be hard to unseat it even though I don’t really play anymore. After that It’s likely between Minecraft, Eve Online, or World of Tanks - I don’t actually know. The next one I know a number for is Baldur’s Gate 3 at over 1400 hours, so that’s 5th. I have no idea what order 2, 3, and 4 are though, lol.

Thank you for the info, I will look into it when I get home tonight.

Dumb question but… It says that patches were committed to mainline on April 1st. How would one know if their distro has already fixed this via updates or not? I run a rolling-release distro on my desktop and laptop, and usually update once every week (or two at most) so have already ran updates 2 or 3 times since the patch was deployed. Am I likely good? If I’m not, is running updates all I need to do to be good? How would I know?

I haven’t tried that but don’t think it would work because the system isn’t checking what browser is used and returning an error message, they have literally coded the web tools in such a way that when running in Firefox, it just doesn’t ever respond. If you try doing the same action in Opera, it literally crashes the entire browser. If you try to use Edge, the tab crashes. I’m not convinced they’ve done this on purpose, I think they just cobbled stuff together and only bothered testing on Chrome and called it good when it stopped crashing for them.

Lol, they don’t. We have some of the worst IT people… Most of our computers are still on Windows 10 and just haven’t been getting updates because they didn’t setup extended update support properly.

And then there is my company IT department wanting to forcibly uninstall anything that isn’t chrome because “chrome is the only secure option”. They literally made our company tools that are browser based just not work with anything that isn’t chrome to curb people trying to use other browsers. :(

Maybe they meant the Linux mascot, the duck named Dux right?