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For now, yes. But these companies change their strategies all the fucking time. As soon as they see their “only on Playstation” strategy is not giving them the expected return, I am sure they’re gonna backflip, again.

Microsoft and Sony (and pretty much any other big corporation in the game business) are not reliable in the slightest - the only difference between them right now is the amount of power they have.

I find it both amusing and shocking that we still have ‘fanboys’ up to this day, when these companies themselves can’t even maintain a solid long term strategy. All they care about is making maximum profit at the cost of literally everything else, so their ‘promises’ hold no weight at all.

Never heard of Tombwater and Hunt the Night before, and both look excellent! Specially Tombwater (it gave me some Dark Tower vibes, loved it). Just wishlisted both and am considering buying them.

I only use Win11 as a remote game server to play games with Moonlight/Sunshine without worrying about compatibility issues. To work and daily usage, it’s Linux all the way.

Just a matter of time until I transition 100% to Linux though. In the meantime I run WinUtil every once in a while to make sure to disable most of that shit.

Yeah… I don’t know how the general public is using AI, but it’s definitely a very useful tool. I understand it comes with a lot of issues regarding privacy, content rights, and predatory mega corporation practices, but the tool itself is useful. And we don’t even need to rely on Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic nowadays to use it. Open-weight models that run locally on open source agents are already pretty capable for a lot of daily tasks. I think a lot of people fail to understand is that it can be used responsible as a tool to help on tasks and automation instead of being a tool to be trusted blindly. I sure will not try to convince anyone to use it, specially if they don’t want to, but playing pretend that it’s a useless technology does not help either.

Social network algorithms doesn’t care if you like or not the content itself, what matters the most to them is how long your screen stays parked on a post.

Maybe you’re watching something you think it’s terrible, and then you enter comments to see how people are reacting. It might be making you furious, but that makes it, mathematically, a successful post that grabbed your attention and therefore the algorithm will throw more of that shit at you, because it wants your attention.

It is evil because it ignores human nature and it doesn’t measure how you feel about it. It rewards highly controversial topics because it knows these posts grab people’s attention one way or another.

Is it a new action from them? I’ve been reading a lot complaints about it lately.

If they’re banning people for using VPN, they’ve reached a new low. Not that I care though… Reddit is just a shadow of what it once was.

Considering the average time for game development nowadays, these studios barely had time under the Microsoft umbrella. It’s just ridiculous they’re getting shut down already.

Nope. Distrobox does not offer any meaningful protection, since its purpose is to integrate with the system. It’s basically meant to make downloading and managing packages from different distros, on the same system, much easier… but it’s not meant to protect and isolate your device the same way that Flatpak or other type of containers do. That baing said, stop relying on Distrobox as a safety measure, and check your recently installed and updated packages since 9th June, to make sure you were not infected.

I was starting to get too confident in AUR. Thankfully I wasn’t affected. Just replaced all possible AUR packages to their respective Arch and Flatpak alternatives, with exception of very few or from the ones I had no option. But will definitely check before updating them, and will only install AUR packages as a last resort.

No. If it came from AUR, it doesnt matter the method you used. You should check all the AUR apps you recently updated (from 9th to 12th June), and compare it to the lists. Only AUR though… Arch official repos are not affected by it.

Proton Mail is operated by Proton AG, which is a for-profit corporation.

That being said, even though Proton Mail is probably more trustworthy than Google and Microsoft services, it’s still handled by a for-profit corporation and therefore can’t be fully trusted.

Nowadays if something is owned by a corp I wouldn’t recommend anyone to get too attached to it. Use it while you feel it’s worth, but prepare to swap for something else eventually.

In other words: don’t ever fully trust your data to company owned software, and always look for a backup solution.

Not much, really. I’ve heard Zen had memory leak issues on Windows, but I was using it on CachyOS and didn’t bother to swap. But I use Waterfox on Android and on Windows, and I like it very much.

If I had to choose just one nowadays though, I would probably stick with Waterfox. I like Zen, but sometimes it feels more experimental.

Mozilla Firefox has gone downhill…

Not sure if they’re the best options nowadays (balancing privacy and usability), but I’ve been enjoying Waterfox and Zen for a while and don’t see any reason to go back to Firefox.

Thank you! That’s the difference between rhetorical freedom and substantive freedom.

What gets me is how people will look at China’s poverty alleviation (actual material liberation from hunger and desperation) and call that “authoritarianism”. Meanwhile, the US lets people die of treatable illnesses, go bankrupt from medical bills, and drown in student debt… and for some reason that’s perceived as natural.

And on wealth inequality, you’re right. The CPC doesn’t let billionaires write policy the way the Kochs, Bezos, or Musk do, which shouldn’t be acceptable anywhere in the world.

I disagree with the anti-west part. Anti-USA (as government or as an example for ethical governance) then, sure, but with good reasons.

And regarding pro CCP views, it depends on the context actually. You can’t just throw everything on a bubble… The thing is that for a LONG time we have been fed by North American or European media the idea that China = Evil and USA/EU = Good, but nowadays, thanks to the expansion of information and people accessibility to other sources (such as the Fediverse), we know that’s simply not true at all.

When you see, for example, powerful countries allying to Israel genocidal acts, maintaining civilians under siege for almost 20 years, or just turning their back to it as if they can’t see the fucking obvious, you realize these governments are full of shit.

But it’s not that people here are anti-west, or that they don’t like western people as a whole. In fact, I’m sure most of users here are westerns. We just don’t like how big western governments deal with things, and here people can actually talk about it. When you say some of these things on platforms such as Reddit or X, the rigged algorithms will sure punish you.