Cethin

There’s the alternative of trying to obtain more users, or also to retain users by being a better service (although it has to appeal to a different demographic than those trying to leave for this though).

They have a pretty universally bad name now, so obtaining new users only gets harder, and a lot of people leave even without finding a long term match because the service is shit. They can optimize for these factors without burning the place down.

They have no requirement to grow year over year either. That has nothing to do with fiduciary responsibility. It just keeps stock value growing. Prioritizing long term health at the expense of short term gains is perfectly fine a legal.

Smart meters with this ability are great, when done well. Without them they have the ability to turn off all of your power if they need to. If they can’t keep up with demand, they have to turn things off. It’s better for them to have the ability to shut off a few appliances or decrease your AC usage rather than shut people down entirely.

People always complain that they don’t want to give the energy company power over their electricity, but they already do. However, without this their power is total, and only total. With it they can moderate it. It’s better if everyone has a smart meter instead of only people who care about others, and greedy people only look out for themselves.

I agree though, fuck private providers.

“Rather than require specific outcomes–such as achieving maximum share price–fiduciary duties are largely about conduct, process, and motivation”

You don’t have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit, or anything like that. You have a responsibility to act in accordance to company rules and guidelines, and to act in the company’s interest, not your own.

There is no requirement to burn to company down to maximize short-term profits, like some people think. That’s usually at the expense of long-term profits anyway, so it could be better for profits to do something better for the customer.

You’re only required to act “ethically” and keep the company’s interests above your own.

That’s not really how that works.

Everyone can draw. You mean that you aren’t practiced yet, which is perfectly fine and everyone starts that way. If you want to make comics, then make comics. Don’t waste time and energy on AI slop that doesn’t bring the same meaning as something a person made, however inexperienced they may be.

I think it’s pretty clear they’re referring to uncomfortable stuff, not dangerous stuff. Obviously don’t let them do dangerous stuff.

I haven’t made weed butter, but id imagine it should keep for a really long time if there’s a layer of endistrubed butter on top. Covering stuff in fat is an age old method of preservation.

Yeah, ACAB because the “good” ones don’t stand up to the bad ones, but some do do the right thing, at least sometimes. In this case, arresting them would have created a situation where they’re much worse off, and they end up doing more crime. Meanwhile, they didn’t do any harm and just wanted to hang out peacefully by themselves. Our criminal “justice” system creates more criminals than it removes.

No, a lot are vacant because they’re purchased as “investments” and just sit there empty. No work is being done on them.

Yeah, it obviously is dependent on the AC itself. With that said, there’s plenty of games that don’t have many cheaters without kernel level AC. I’ve also heard that Valorant, at least in the past, had some significant issues with cheaters. Maybe that died down, but probably more because Valorant lost some popularity than the cheating issue was solved.

With that said, if you write your own AC on your own engine, it’s always going to be better than using off-the-shelf AC on a publicly available engine. A big part of creating cheats is finding vulnerabilities. If it’s a well known AC/engine, those are easier to find or already known and documented. Essentially every UE game for many years has hackers at launch, because the same ones work across multiple games, unless you take action to protect against them.

It isn’t that Battleye or EAC are bad. They’re just ubiquitous. Meanwhile Riot’s AC are only in Valorant and LoL, which is a proprietary engine IIRC. That’s why it’ll have fewer cheaters, not because kernel-level AC is significantly better.

Yeah, anything Adobe won’t work, but there are plenty of PDF viewers that do. Also, yes, Steam, VLC, and Firefox all work perfectly fine on Linux. You shouldn’t have any issues.

Honestly, just try something else. If you’re trying to do gaming, I’d recommend Garuda Dragonized from personal experience. It’s Arch based, but comes packaged with everything you’d need for gaming, and a utility to install a bunch of extra stuff you might want, like launchers, controller drivers, etc. I think it even comes with the Nvidia drivers that you’ll need to install manually for most other distros.

I my opinion it’s really ugly out of the box sadly, with a horrible “gamer” look. It’s KDE though, so it’s really easy to customize.

For games, just use your package manager to install Steam, then install Proton from there. (IIRC it’s automatic for just the standard release version.) Steam games should mostly just work without you needing to do anything. Other games, you want to use something like Heroic or Lutris (I recommend the former) to manage them and launch them with Proton without manually doing it all every time.

If you expand on what your issues were, I’m sure plenty of people would be happy to help. Again, it should be pretty trivial, so I’m not sure what went wrong.

Very few programs require anything complicated to get them working. A lot of productivity programs don’t support Linux though, like anything from Adobe, but there are usually alternatives, and if not can often be run in a VM. This probably doesn’t matter for you though, since you don’t seem to be particularly technical (not an insult). You probably know what programs you need that may not work. If there’s nothing like that then you’ll be fine.

Well I’d say the distro is the model/manufacturer, Linux is the motor/engine/software, and the DE is the HUD/dashboard/wheel/pedels.

I don’t know what distro you’re installing or what the hell you’re doing, but most of the time it’s trivial. From my experience, the Linux installation is much simpler and easier than Windows.

It is different though, so if you bash your head against it expecting Windows then you’re obviously going to have a bad time. You need to start with the understanding that it’s a different thing and you’ll have to learn it, just like you did Windows when you first started with that. You weren’t instantly an expert. You just forgot what it was like to be a noob who doesn’t know what they’re doing.

I don’t think it can work if it’s open source probably. There’s always ways around anti-cheat. It’s only a matter of finding it. Making it open source makes it trivial.

With that said, kernel level anti-cheat doesn’t really seem to slow anyone down much. I’ve heard that the games with them still have plenty of hackers. Why try to solve a problem with such a big weapon if it isn’t going to work anyway? Best case, it potentially adds some really deep vulnerabilities to your system, and maybe slightly slows down hackers.

Before I read the further comments I was going to say Easy Anti-cheat does work fine. Lol. You may want to write out the full name first to avoid confusion in the future.

And now you’re even better!

Honestly, not a bad idea. A lot of people who should be divorced aren’t because they feel they’ve invested too much into it. People outside of that can see more clearly.