Crozekiel

Christ though. Wasn't she in a relationship with Dr. Grant (who looked to be in his 50's), or am I completely misremembering?

Also, it sounds more like you're advocating for kernal level anti-cheat being created for Linux by game devs as opposed to being against the horrible and invasive practice regardless of OS.

I just don't agree. First, I don't think a monopoly is an inherent part of nature, and further I disagree that monopolies exist because some company just makes the absolute best product and people end up always choosing it. A monopoly's key feature is not giving the consumer a real choice through shady and unfair business practices.

Also, windows is not the better product. They don't make the best OS. Arguments could be made that they have a better OS for gaming, but for almost everything else they are worse than basically every alternative (not just Linux) but still dominate market share due to lack of consumer choice. At the retailer, hardware is tied to an OS - if you want macos you have to buy Mac hardware. If you want chromeos you have to by an underwhelming netbook.

IMO, keeping windows around just in case a company does some underhanded shit like kernal anti-cheat or invasive DRM so you can give your support to the company doing the underhanded shit is a detriment to progress.

I'd rather struggle to learn freecad than keep windows around even though fusion360 is easier (for me) to understand, because I don't want to reward bad behavior. If those of us that can switch don't, then things don't get better. I couldn't have made the switch if thousands of people more knowledgeable and talented before me hadn't taken the first steps. It's soapboxy, I know, but I also feel it's important.

It's all about where to draw the line, and what you are able to tolerate, I guess. The biggest problem with that though is continuing to support a game / Dev / publisher that is consistently doing these awful things.

If you aren't able to tell your friends "no, I'm not playing that game, and here's why" then the industry will just slide deeper into these terrible practices and the entire games industry gets worse. Some people don't even understand what anti-cheat is doing (and think it works), and if those of us that do, that they trust, don't explain it to them, they won't have the opportunity to make an informed decision of whether to support it or not.

Well god damn it, you got me. Lol

Here here. And I know some modern word processors already put a slightly larger space after a sentence, but it isn't two full spaces and that mostly only happens in non-monospace fonts where a space character is barely a gap to start with. Two full spaces after every sentence. Yes even in SMS where there is a character limit. If I can't fit what I want to say properly then I'm not saying it and these damn kids can rot in their unintelligible run-on looking dribble.

I second this. I thought I hated turkey until I went to my first long term significant other's family thanksgiving in my 20's...

Turns out my mom just always overcooked it.

Yea, but honestly that's not a Linux problem imo. Invasive anti-cheat has been a deal breaker for me since its inception. It started as "I don't want to deal with your shitty software always running in the background eating up my CPU cycles, need maximum performance baby" and then quickly became "I'm not giving your shitty software kernal access to my entire machine, I don't trust you".

It's made so much worse when you realize it doesnt even actually stop cheaters...

Most of that is just copying headlines and posting links to news sites though... Lazy posting but it is more a symptom of the disease that would most likely be cured if the root problem was cured.

My install does not seem to do this. I removed the windows drive when installing Linux on a new drive. Put both drives in and select which one to boot in the bios. Its been that way for about a year and, so far, grub updates have never noticed the windows install nor added to grub.

That's with bazzite, can't speak for any other distro as that is the only dual-boot machine I own. Bazzite does mention they do not recommend traditional dual boot with the boot loader and recommend the bios method so maybe they have something changed to avoid that?

Actually, Gates is just the kernal. The OS should be called Ox/Gates.

My company's HR system (like, time off, time clock, etc.) asks for a new password every 3 months, but it doesn't give any fucks at all if you just reuse the current password apparently. I've been "changing" it to the same thing for like a year now.