If you’re stuck on Windows for work or whatever, you probably don’t have rights to do that.

Running windows in a VM is still… running Windows. It’s not idealistically different to having a dedicated Windows computer. There’s nothing magical about running Linux as a host that makes Windows less evil.

God I hate that the younger generations use the word “drop” to mean both “cancel” and “release”.

Windows < 11 is legacy software and Windows > 10 is slop. Nobody should care about either.

Well I’m sure we’ve all heard stories about it happening, and my FIL had someone walking him through a “Microsoft has detected a virus on your PC” scenario one time until he fucked up and lost the connection (fortunately)

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That’s never going to fly. Imagine that person posting nudes, which would be considered illegal by that same lawmaker.

If your local laws say you need to be 18 to be considered an adult, then depending on the year, you’re either going to be denying an adult access for (average) six months, or illegally letting a child have access for (average) six months.

their advertising was just as bad until relatively recently. And their offers are just as bad. Like, 90% off all the time. 90% off a price they never charged and made up. It’s the same as with pizza places, where they say the pizza really costs £20 but if you have this voucher you can get it for £5! What a deal, right?

I switched from Nord to Mullvad recently and it’s much more stable on linux, and on android it’s less glitchy, and the signup process was beautiful. I’m normally very critical of software, and I was really impressed with how smooth it was.

Why would I want a calendar with my vpn subscription? It’s like bundling a barbecue with your purchase of a new jacket.

The only input should be birth year of the child whose account is being set up. No other personally identifiable info should be included.

Found a bug. You’re trying to reduce the information, but you can’t extrapolate someone’s age from their year of birth. You need the full date to compare with the current date. Storing someone’s full DOB is obviously more PII but it’s essential.

Just add a 1 at the end of them all. That’s what I do when my work says I have to change my password.

Ah, makes sense. You’re right about firmware updaters, and I don’t know if I’d trust one running under Wine anyway tbh. Who knows what weird system calls they make assuming you’re running Windows 95 or whatever.

What do you mean lacking support for keyboards and controllers? Maybe for doing weird custom stuff like RGB, but for anything else they’re standard HIDs and will work with anything, no “support” needed. You can plug a USB keyboard and mouse into your phone and it’ll work if you want.

I’m currently playing Clair Obscur on linux through steam with a cheap fake xbox controller I got off ebay, and it works perfectly. I’m using an Nvidia card too, and I haven’t had to do any customisation or anything.

Easy anti-cheat won’t work, so Valorant/Fortnite, etc. are out of the question for now, but any games that don’t use that kind of malware are probably fine.

I don’t even mean the USA, loads of EU countries, Australia, etc.

You think it’ll be the bad example other countries learn from, but loads of other countries are already following suit.

The government can decree that ISPs have to block the IP addresses of known VPN endpoints. That’s perfectly possible. They did something similar with piracy sites before (e.g. if you go visit piratebay on virgin media you’ll get an error page). It’s a game of cat-and-mouse because if it’s done with DNS then aliases pop up immediately, and if it’s by IP then other proxies pop up, but the fact is they could make is so difficult for average users that people give up.

I thought Control was excellent, but the original Alan Wake was a bad joke.