The fact that people pay hundreds of dollars for this OS to get advertised to is insulting. Same energy as these smart TVs that feel like they have the right to show you ads.

If I’m dictator, I’m making this shit illegal, full stop.

I will say that the Google Auth prompt in particular is just this huge nuisance and a horrible experience. People should feel stupid for including it in their web experience.

I loathe what part of the security community has become with the stunt hacking and vuln naming. That being said, I doubt it’s some conspiracy. I don’t know all the details but it wouldn’t be exceptional to identify a bug that has existed in processor firmware or legacy code for a long time.

People are looking at this stuff all the time, both professionally and for fun. You could make the case that it’s inevitable that there will be exploits found that affect a huge population.

In the end, as long as the layman gets smarter about computer security, the better people will react to vuln drops.

How else can we make money off of other people’s work?

This is just like that China social credit system

Careful bud, you’re really working over my feelings here.

Keep fluffing each other

Why do you want to be God’s specialist little guy? You didn’t contribute anything other than “oh I used Windows XP, unlike other Gen z.” it’s so insignificant and boring. Nothing personal but I’m just calling a spade a spade.

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So is that like, what gets the kids street cred? Windows XP usage?

Pretty cool I guess?

Of all the reasons to be like “Windows bad, Linux good!” This one doesn’t really hit.

Of all the actual differences, this is the one people think makes Linux superior? This is just a circle jerk lol.

I know this is a joke but for anyone reading: Linux has many advantages and is great but is NOT immune to viruses or exploits.

Has anyone ITT used a DS5 on the deck? I’m curious if they’re worth the investment.

I know this is supposed to be humorous, but there’s a reason why these languages can, and are doing what they’re doing.

Core dumps are also worth learning about, they’re really helpful if you understand them.

Good to see someone using Linux for their platform on these handhelds. The big reason I don’t want to try the Ally or whatever the others are doing is I can’t imagine Windows is making the experience better.

I don’t really have evidence to support that, but more Linux investment is better overall.

I’m over the era of ads dominating our lives. I know not everyone can do so, but I’m willing to pay a fair rate for a fair search and AI service. If we have to continue to live in this system then I think we should better enable competition in the tech space and stop some of these mafia business monopoly tactics.

Some companies are just disgustingly greedy. I pay for a new TV, for example, and that thing is trying to download ads and report my usage non-stop and I paid fairly to own the device. I’d support any political party that actually wants to protect consumers from the nonsense business pull.

100%

Lot of problems with the directions windows has gone or is going (cortana finally gone), but people need to chill if they think the OS is unusable or something.

Anecdotally I’m hoping SteamOS continues to progress how it has so there are even more reasons to not depend on Windows.