I wonder what the value of an ad nauseum user is…

And even with the overhead of translating DirectX and Windows API calls.

It works about the same as any other non-NixOS system running a user install of Nix.

nix-env -i neovim

You could also choose to enable and use more advanced features like flakes, but I would suggest not doing that unless you want to dive into the Nix ecosystem.

There is ReactOS, which is an ABI-compatible kernel and operating system. That is as close as we are going to get unless pigs start flying.

Good point. I’m not keen on personally comitting fraud, but with the inevitable data breaches in mind, identity verification would do absolutely nothing to deter malicious actors.

Not if they use cryptographic signing.

Browser sends website the signed identity verification, then the website checks the signature against some key in a list of trusted identity verifiers. With the verification responsibility being pushed to the OS vendors, that will be a short list of tech megacorporations. And maybe Canonical or Red Hat, if we’re lucky.

They can’t make it illegal, but with a little frog-boiling, they can make it functionally useless for visiting websites you might need to use. No identity verification = no access, and Linux = no identity verification.

Almost perfect. You forgot to replace “community chest” with “shareholder portfolios”

this is a case where the problem isn’t the corporations: it is the government.

It can be both.

So… it actually makes perfect sense for the companies that dealt with this bullshit to get reimbursed by the christofacists.

If the company ate the cost, sure.

If the company raised the price on consumers to cover the tariffs, the consumers already made the company whole. If the company gets the reimbursement money on top of that, they’re double dipping.

It won’t at first. If more essential websites start to unnecessarily adopt it, it will start to lock Linux users out of being able to access the services necessary to exist in modern society.

Imagine if you need age/identity verification to:

• Do banking
• Make online purchases
• File your taxes
• Book a doctor’s appointment
• Apply for a job

Meta is funding a lot of the lobbyists pushing for age verification laws. Uncoincidentally, Meta both owns a stake in a company providing identity verification as a service, and serves to benefit from not having to moderate its own platforms.

It’s like Secure Boot, but without any of those pesky self-signing workarounds.

“But that’s unenforceable”, some will claim.

And to that, let me remind us all of a little-known concept called cryptographic attestation. If that doesn’t ring any bells, then the term “secure boot” should.

Once this shit passes into law, that’s the next step. Operating system vendors have their private keys to sign attestation tokens saying “John Johnson is an adult” and you’re only getting one if you verify your government ID. When you go to a website, your browser sends your signed token to the website and then the website checks if it’s a valid token signed by Microsoft, Apple, or Google.

But Linux?, you may be wondering. No. No Linux. Kiss it good-bye. Your bank will “require” identity attestation for “extra security”, and your bank doesn’t give a fuck about Linux. Your bank will check against whatever list of public keys they want to trust, and it ain’t going to include anything not backed by a global megacorporation.

But have you considered that Peter Theil knows the antichrist?

He’s part of the “you will never need to vote again” admin, so… yes?

Or do one even better and stay silent while also threatening any media outlets that report the terms. Now you get weakness, confirmation, and lying all in one package with a ribbon bow on top.

Valve HATES this ONE TRICK to DOUBLE YOUR FPS INSTANTLY!

1. Render scene to texture
2. Copy texture to frame buffer, present it, wait for vblank (x2)
3. Repeat from step 1.

I have tried it multiple times over the years and I did not have great luck with things “just working” as everyone claims.

This is why I don’t like recommending LTS distros for anything other than servers. The Linux kernel and desktop software moves fast these days, and running 2 year old kernel and DE means missing out on the fixes and improvements that the “it just works” people are talking about.

Oh god, no. Are you trying to drive people away from using Linux?

The typical conservative response to that is “but then they’ll take their businesses elsewhere and now you get nothing.”

The typical conservative response also fails to even consider just how difficult, expensive, and risky it is to move a large business to an entirely new region. Real estate has to be purchased and sold, employees have to be relocated or replaced, logistics have to be established in the new region, valuable business connections and contracts will have to be severed, and for brick and mortar businesses, the competitive landscape will be different.