I usually use the pacman repo and if it’s not in there decide for this specific app if I use the AUR or flatpak version

If you want to make a point…present a real source not a vague hint to google.
What is the issue? Do you mean NPC predators in games? Probably should be 18+ rated then…

If you mean multiplayer…no age bucket check will prevent predators on the servers…

There is such thing as parental responsibility, if someone just lets their child consume higher rated media online without any discurse its a parental failure.

What is next? Does the blueray player need to verify with photoID that everyone in the room is older than the movies rating?

There are laws that make cism illegal in pretty every country. And most countries and companies are pretty quick with takedown requests. So why do we need age verification? CISM is illegal for everyone

Now for other stuff that is legally age gated in one country, but it is hosted in another country which has another legal age limit. Which one counts now?

Does the lawmakers have the reverse law in place, that when a page requests the age bucket, even if there is no legal requirement, does the pagebget fined as well? Otherwise it just leads again to the “cookie banner issue”.

That is a completely different premise. A) putting “Catholic church” and “protect children” in the same sentence is already a bold move B) if I place my child in the boy scouts I do have some expectations on them to protect the child, correct. But that’s not the all or nothing situation you mentioned in your example

My point is the same as with DNS Blocking: It is proposed under the umbrella of “think about the kids”, but it doesn’t work for what they propose it and it is a first step in creating the base of a censorship infrastructure. The govements (and by that I mean all of them not just the US) should hold the platform’s accountable for shit they mess up now and don’t accept “Sorry we can’t do that at scale” as an answer. Google and meta should act much harder on reports by the community. interestingly, they CAN act fast and hard for copyright stuff or other things which would reduce their earnings. As long as the governments won’t act based on existing measures, I can’t take any new ones serious

No, absoluetly not. Because the whole thing is notnto protect the children, but to gather more data.

That’s the false premise…if we just buy the one which isn’t enshittified to hell, there’s less and less options for “enthusiasts” and secondly, most users are fucked, because they just need something that works.

The only way to prevent keep the devices open is via regulatory oversight, forcing politicians to see the relevance of open platform / devices and create rules accordingly. And even that is a massive uphill battle…

I try to as well…but it really reduces options. E.g. I do try to source my eBooks and audiobooks without DRM and theres a lot of stuff you can’t get that way, so the only way to actually buy them is to “buy” them on a platform (e.g. audible) and use 3rd party tools to remove the drm (which is against their ToC)

Also a lot of corporate tools are moving to cloud only, windows, office365, atlassian, adobe etc. and unfortunately, it’s not easy to get the higher ups to see the issues with that

And it’s not only services. Everything with an internet connection can be altered…e.g. HP updated their printerfirmware to not longer allow non-HP ink cartridges (and no I don’t own an HP). Bambu lab closed their api, preventing the users to use 3rd-party tools. Theoretically valve could close down your bootloader and then you’re fucked (they probably won’t, but still, the point stands)

And again

Amazon prevents you to

I do where I can, but often it is not possible to
a) find something you can actually buy, and call it your own. b) you still don’t know if the creator t turns a darth vader on you and tells you “I’m altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it further”
And the best thing: uf they brick it or move features behind a paywall (with an update after you “bought” it) and you circumvent their “security” to restore the function YOU are the criminal. Nice thing isn’t it?

Problem is by now, I don’t get that thing anymore. i get a freaking licence to use it for some time, and when you decide I don’t own that licence anymore you got my money and I have nothing

Also, it always tries to open the office files within teams instead of the actual office application. The features are worse and everytime you receive a chat and want to check it, teams closes your file…great productivity

I’m running endevourOS with KDM and there are some major issues with bluetooth…I can’t get some devices to connect (e.g my keychrone Keyboard, and Cricut plotter)

I still have to disable my wireless mouse, when I hibernate, because I couldn’t be bothered to adapt the udev rules to disallow the mouse to trigger the pc to start

And finaly, I just got back into X4 Foundation and my HOTAS setup depends on which device is recognized first…either its correct, or the controls are swapped (stuff that should be on the joystick is on the thrustmaster and vice versa)…un- and replugging in the correct order fixes this, but one wod think that it would lock the controls to a fixed device identifier

I tend to disagree, I do have several devices running Linux and with all of them I had issues after install (standby not working, swap partition not recognized, sound only playing on half of the speakers, issues with monitor scaling etc…) Im fine with it and like the journey, but there are still quirks.

Probably Im in an in-between-world where I do have some tricky use-cases, but missing the full know-how to do it…

thing which makes it not normy-usable, are the documentations: for windows issues you can find DAU-conform guides to solve something. Mostly on “official” (with probably too many ads) pages.

For Linux it’s usually a rabbit hole of official documentations (which dont show all the options), forums, reddit pages, where some guy tells another guy to add xyz to the config file…without telling which file and where in the file. Why is this command not listed in the documentation? What does that command actually do?

It has gotten much better, but there’s still some way to go

Unfortunately, the availability of “one time purchase” is not a guarantee anymore as more and more devs have killed existing versions sold with perpetual licences.

Probably a bit more polished UX (especially for not too tech-savy people)

but I’d say the biggest difference is integrated multidevice support, either via their cloud or selfhosted…

In some Linux distributions it blocks you from installing system packages via pip, often there are then packages which can be installed via your distros package manager.

With arch for example:

sudo pacman -S python-'package'

Or, as others mentioned using venv.

Also, some tools have plugins to provide vim controls for them.

I know at least and use these:

• SublimeText (https://github.com/NeoVintageous/NeoVintageous)
• Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff)

There are probably more…

For me, it’s hardware support, i.e my laptops fingerprint sensor just isn’t supported, for the speakers to work I had to find a script that remapped the speakers, multiple desktops (especially with different resolutions) are a pain.

But the killer at the moment is a good solution to manage and post process my raw photos. Went from Lightroom to On1 Photo RAW…unfortunately DarkTable is still not there yet. Also still missing the affinity suite on Linux :-(

Also, sadly these tools also don’t run well in a VM

Jup, Im having an NTP issue on my win10 machine If you search for it you find the same 5 “solutions” from dozens of content farms.

print("Hello World")

Save the file as script.py

And then execute it with

python3 script.py