My personal belief still is that the prohibitive approach is futile and ultimately more harmful than the alternative: embrace the technology, promote it and create deepfakes of everyone.

Soon the taboo will be gone, the appeal as well, and everyone will have plausible deniability too, because if there are dozens of fake nudes of any given person then who is to say which are real, and why does it even matter at that point?

This would be a great opportunity to advance our societal values and morals beyond prudish notions, but instead we double down on them.

E: just to clarify I do not at all want to endorse creating nudity of minors here. Just point out that the girl in the article wouldn’t have to humiliate herself trying to do damage control in the above scenario, because it would be entirely unimportant.

Am a bazzite user myself, and haven’t had those issues at all. I would recommend joining the discord as well, they have a reasonably active community there

As the other commenter suggested, try bazzite. Setup as easy as configuring a new smartphone and ready to game right off the bat

They added an option to subscribe instead. Pay a monthly fee, get access to any and all dlc.

I dont love their monetization model either but I understand the need for financial return on the investment of continued development.

Aside from what the others said, my VPN (also on GOS) has a kill switch function, i set it to maximum and this way the phone simply can’t connect to the internet at all unless it uses the VPN.

I suggest lemmy.zip

A moderately sized instance with great stability and performance, a very diligent and transparent admin, and fantastic federation with virtually everyone.

If you are familiar with the term tankie, hexbear is the china-fan tankie instance and lemmygrad is for those lusting after Stalin and the soviet union.

Lemmy.ml is a bit more low key about it, but equally authoritarian communist when it comes down to it, as evidenced by the op.

Especially the hexbear users have an extremely argumentative instance culture and will even brigade comment sections critical of the great leader, so most users and even instances block them outright.

Well I agreed that it is an ultimately bad change, but I can see how the beginner mode mentality would lead to this conclusion. Provide the new user with the most stable and bug free experience possible, and after some time they will probably turn that setting off on their own to get all that popular software.

I dont know, it is just the general consensus on every “I want to drop windows but i am scared of Linux” post ever made, and from my personal experience I found it actually too much like windows (made a live boot before I chose another distro).

I think it is a stupid change myself, but as far as I (recent Linux convert) can tell, mint is considered the go to distro for people coming freshly over from windows, and decidedly caters to beginners. A default setting for maximum user protection makes sense for that.

Iirc Vin diesel is a similar little bitch, which led to them clashing on set during the car movies

I have a pretty good memory for faces, just really not for names. I know where and when I met someone but I can’t tell you their name even if we met a bunch of times.

I can’t help you personally because I’m just a Linux / lutris beginner myself, but I found their discord to be reasonably helpful for general support:

https://discord.gg/PZd9nWPDyR

XOS

Betting this is someone desiring to monetize some or all of what they are offering. Could be any malicious government too

Oh yeah i didn’t want to diminish your experience, the game certainly was plagued with a disastrous rushed launch and still doesnt deliver everything people wanted out of the game. But i found it quite enjoyable gameplay in an amazing and compelling setting and have curiously not experienced any of the issues others seem to have. Even playing it under Linux was a non issue for me. That being said it is of course completely valid to refund the game if your experience was this terrible.

Curiously I haven’t had any of those glitches, bugs, crashes, performance dips and so forth that supposedly plague the game since release… For me it has been nothing but enjoyable since I bought in in 23.

I meant more like, either of these not all. Nothing worth more than 5-10 bucks combined

They’re probably referring to minor gifts random people might offer you out of gratitude sometime, say if you do customer service and went out of your way for them. A bottle of normal priced wine, some chocolates perhaps, a gift card for a lunch at xyz. Some giveaway merch they have tons of.

Interested myself. So far I had only good experiences as a customer, though i hear they are pretty rough towards vendors. It is also widely accepted where I live (EU), which makes it very convenient.

But i am always eager to stop using a corporate product or service.